I only just managed to finish my 2018 project, having missed a few months in the middle of the year I had a crazy catch up in October. Then in November, I had to make another change to my plans, but in December, for the last stretch, I managed to get back on track. I …
Continue reading Liberia – 12 bookshops for 12 months – December
I am so much behind with reviewing the books I read that I’m still going back to books I read in the summer and fall of 2018, but maybe it is good, for 2018 was, in general, a good year for me. I bought this book during my crazy book-crawl back in October. As one …
As a teacher, she also knows that to state the obvious is, in fact, a sure sign of stupidity. This is how my story of Young Woman as a Runaway Daughter became, in effect, the great battle of My Mother versus the Head Lice. And because my mother won this battle, the story was told …
It is not a pleasant book, it could not be given that the subject here is the first-person account of home abuse. Our narrator is a writer and a young wife when we first hear her voice she actually is no longer a wife. The first time she speaks to us is to reclaim her …
Continue reading When I Hit You: Or the Portrait of a Writer as a Young Wife – Meena Kandasamy
I know you all have been flooded by this type of posts in the last few days, but it's that time of the year. We all just have to bear it with dignity and write our own post on the best books and our plans 😉 As always I just could not decide on a …
This was my last bookshop on the crazy October bookshop-crawl. Atlantis is a very profiled bookshop, focusing on witchcraft and magic and all things esoteric. Not necessarily my cup of tea, but I found two books nonetheless. The store is small and packed full of books. Unfortunately, due to the limited space, almost all books …
Continue reading The Atlantis Bookshop – 12 bookshops for 12 months – October
Christmas is over, lovely as the time was we're coming to the year's end, so it's time for some checks and balances. It was a year without book buying ban and I made full use of it, buying around 60 books, I tried to keep a tally, but got lost somewhere around book number 54, …
For the first time in my life, I felt like something other than a young person. I was thirty-two, but in the last seven years I had worked more than most people do in twenty. I was tired, not old but bearing down hard on middle age, and I admitted that I was no longer …
I’m still not sure what to think about this book, because I bought it based on the cover, having no idea what to expect. And then it surprised me a bit. I expected something more literary, what I got was a brutal and layered thriller. So we have a case of mixed feelings. As a …
This is what happens when you share a Kindle library with someone, in this case my mum. To relax and unwind she reads romance, while I prefer crime. I don't know how I did it, but I downloaded this book from her library. Then while on vacation in Portugal, tired from more serious reads I …
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