FEATURE: The New Age Afro Voice book club review
So last week I got tagged by a friend from back home that he’s just read about me and the book club. I quickly remembered that I was meant to appear on The New Age’s Afro Voice but I never...
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New Book Alert: The Ones with Purpose
So Nozizwe Cynthia Jele is releasing her second book titled The Ones with Purpose, which will be coming out on 20 April 2018. Yey!! Only a few days to go! It’s been about 8 years since Happiness is a Four-Letter...
Book 3 of 12 for 2018
So I’ve recently finished reading my 3rd book of the year. I actually re-read The Color Purple in January along with the 3, after many years since I read it for the first time back in the day. My March...
National Library Week 2018
So this week we are celebrating South African National Library week from 19 March – 25 March 2018 with the theme, Libraries: heart of the Community. The reason for this theme is to reiterate the fact that libraries are really...
New Book Alert: Brutal Legacy by Tracy Going
I’ve just received a review copy of Tracy Going’s Memoir, Brutal Grace from Jacana Media. The perks of running a book club you say? Well, this particular memoir made me catch feelings when I began reading the synopsis. Mainly because...
The Color Purple – A Book Recap and Theatre Evening
Alice Walker is a gem of an author. She captured the life, hard times, the good times and spirit of Cellie perfectly so till the very end. Having read this book in my teens – then followed it up with...
Taking part in World Read Aloud Day
On the 1st February I’ll be celebrating World Read Aloud Day with Nal’ibali along with all of South Africa and I’m excited! Each year Nal’ibali produces a story especially for World Read Aloud Day in all 11 official languages. Nal’ibali...
[LISTEN] Bookamoso features on Late Nights with Killing Karoline author Sara-Jayne King
In the month of January I had a radio interview with one of my favourite people, Sara-Jayne King. Author of Killing Karoline, remember that book that was one of my 2017 highlights? Yes, that author. She is the host of ...
The Year 2017 in book form
I’ve been meaning to do this wrap-up and chat about all the things I’ve been up to over the past couple of months leading up to the end of a beautiful 2017 in the literary streets. The first week of...
New Read: Killing Karoline by Sara-Jayne King
So I have finally began reading SJK’s Killing Karoline. I attended the book launch at the David Krut Bookstore, meeting Sara-Jayne was an honour as I had been interacting with her for a while leading up to her Joburg leg...