A Dutch friend recommended the website of the television station VPRO, “Holland Doc.” I have been meaning to blog about it for a while. During downtime I have often gone to watch some of … more →
Africa is a Countryuncertainprinciples wrote 1 week ago: This is the final post on the Weekly Geeks Q&A from 13th June. It’s taken me about a mont … more →
savidgereads wrote 1 week ago: Todays blog was planned after finally finishing book sorting in the new flat, but looking at Booking … more →
Thomas Caldwell wrote 1 month ago: David Lurie (John Malkovich) J. M. Coetzee’s widely acclaimed and awarded 1999 novel Disgrace is a b … more →
bookmapper wrote 1 month ago: Here is the character map from the book ‘Disgrace’ by the famous South African author J … more →
hanba wrote 1 month ago: I remember reading Milan Kundera’s Slowness on a bus from Tibet to a city in the middle of China cal … more →
delialloyd wrote 1 month ago: Every Wednesday I offer tips for adulthood. Further to yesterday’s post about the pleasures of … more →
Thomas wrote 1 month ago: To celebrate the release of the film adaptation of J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize winning novel DISGRA … more →
hanba wrote 2 months ago: This is hanba’s saddest post yet. Hanba will write another much happier blog post as soon as t … more →
wetgremlin wrote 2 months ago: On Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun Posted using ShareThis … more →
itsfine wrote 3 months ago: Just finished this book. It is the first time I have read Coetzee and I suspect that this is not a b … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: A Dutch friend recommended the website of the television station VPRO, “Holland Doc.” I … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: A new book, The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences, by South Afri … more →
flakyartist wrote 4 months ago: Ahem. My official review: This book made me want to read Twilight. Yes, Twilight: perfectly pe … more →
flakyartist wrote 4 months ago: This morning our snow is gone and the ground is wet. I hear birds. A hint of spring. It only takes … more →
flakyartist wrote 4 months ago: Lying in bed last night, he turned to ask what I was thinking about. “Vegetarians.” I … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 4 months ago: Inside South Africa no one takes R W Johnson seriously, yet he is the go-to man for a number of Brit … more →
Sean Jacobs wrote 7 months ago: I read a lot of bad books this year. But for the good ones, the best book of 2008 is undoubtedly Jun … more →
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 8 months ago: Have you noticed something missing from the novels you’ve read lately? Such as all the quotation mar … more →
Ténéré wrote 9 months ago: There are some great writers who quote things in their own sublime way. Its their unique way of expr … more →