Well, I've decided. (Decided what?) Partly because the host's reminder of the first round-up for participants has come around. Partly because I think I could have put off deciding for a year, so I felt a snap decision might be better, freeing me to obsess about next year's line-up guilt-free. Partly
Arlene Perly Rae's Everybody's Favourites Penguin, 1997 One of the quotes that appears as an epigraph to this volume felt particularly poignant to me this summer: "One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best." It's courtesy of Clifton Fadiman (yes, father of the infamous Ex Libris author) and
A couple of weekends ago, I was able to attend an event which included three novelists from Africa: Brian Chikwava (Zimbabwe), Carole Enahoro (Nigeria) and Ngūgī wa Thiong'o (Kenya). They focussed on the following works, respectively: Harare North, Doing Dangerously Well, and Dreams in a Time of War. And, so,
Well, I can't complain. Although I found the audio version of Barbara Kingsolver's work very tedious listening, I don't think there's any question of the sophisticated storytelling in The Lacuna. (After 5 hours of listening, I realized that I wasn't going to adjust to her delivery style, but I did
I’ve been making Readolutions for as long as I can remember, but my handwritten reading lists have been lost. It wasn’t until 2003 that I started to make the lists on the computer rather than crouched on the floor next to the bookcases, scribbling furiously, certain that the year ahead
