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All things books, to inspire a reading nation
Category: Blog
The real significance of this book lies in the fact that it tells us more about the everyday life of black South Africans. It delves into the essence of black family life and the secret anguish of family members who...
Over the past 8 weeks I’ve featured some local booksellers with the aim to get to know their challenges in their chosen field, the highs, the lows and everything in between. Mostly to shine a light on them in this...
Fred Khumalo has finished his 10 day walk from Joburg to Ladysmith today. For more context as to why he embarked on #TheLongestMarch – please go get yourself the book which is in stores already, let’s get reading.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The book talks about an...
I got this book for my beautiful friend Paballo Kgadima who lives with bipolar. Pabi shares her challenges and her journey on her page and website (follow her here). This was part of the Jacana Media book sale which is...
Any book loving; book event attending bookworm will tell you that the fun thing about attending book festivals, book launches and the like is the taking pictures part. I’m that kind of bookworm and liker of things! No seriously, I...
It’s been a while since I last posted. Life did it’s thing once again but I have been reading. As a form of apology and Thanks Giving for an amazing year in literature, I’m giving away a book per person...
So I’ve been struggling with catching up with my reading due to the 3rd Trimester exhaustion and life as a whole. I’m currently reading book 5/6 of 2018. Slowly but surely I will get to the double digits. I finished...
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...
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...
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...