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
Bookmarks was the bookshop I had planned for October, unlike all the others I visited on that crazy Saturday. This is where I ended my tour, which after visiting four other bookshops did not stop me from buying more books. Bookmarks markets itself as a socialist bookshop and this definitely is a theme that is …
Continue reading Bookmarks – 12 bookshops for 12 months – October
I refuse to admit I have a book buying problem. I was able to carry all the books I bought home, myself...this means it is all under control, right? Ok, let me start at the beginning. Since mid-August I have been constantly travelling (12 flights in two months, I think I am now able to …
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