Blogs about: J M Coetzee

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J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace {Weekly Geeks Q&A}4 comments

uncertainprinciples 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 →

Tags: General Fiction, Booker Winner, commonwealth writers prize, Nobel Prize winner, South Africa

The Great Unread22 comments

savidgereads wrote 1 week ago: Todays blog was planned after finally finishing book sorting in the new flat, but looking at Booking … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, Ian McEwan, Man Booker, Salman Rushdie, Roddy Doyle, James Kelman, Iris Murdoch, ben okri, Anne Enright

Film review - Disgrace (2008)6 comments

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 →

Tags: 3½ Stars, Film Reviews, Anna Maria Monticelli, Cinema Autopsy, disgrace, Jessica Haines, John Malkovich, Steve Jacobs

Disgrace

bookmapper wrote 1 month ago: Here is the character map from the book ‘Disgrace’ by the famous South African author J … more →

Tags: Books, Booker, disgrace

Highways - Part 2: Tibet5 comments

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 →

Tags: Art and Literature, Thoughts, modern lifestyle, Milan Kundera, Life, Tourism, Coetzee, Kundera, Slowness

Tips For Adulthood: Five Books That Are Worth Re-Reading7 comments

delialloyd wrote 1 month ago: Every Wednesday I offer tips for adulthood. Further to yesterday’s post about the pleasures of … more →

Tags: Books, tips list, To Kill a Mockingbird, Booker Prize, re-reading, I Don't Know How She Does It, stuff white people like, We need to talk about Kevin, Jane Austen

Cinema Nova and Readings event: Which is better? The book or the movie?

Thomas wrote 1 month ago: To celebrate the release of the film adaptation of J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize winning novel DISGRA … more →

Tags: Other Events, catherine deveny, Cinema Nova, disgrace, Elliot Perlman, John Malkovich, Michael Veitch, Peter Rose, Readings

Doggies1 comment

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 →

Tags: Art and Literature, Thoughts, Milan Kundera, Literature, Existentially challenging stuff, Life, Books, Coetzee, Kundera

On Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun

wetgremlin wrote 2 months ago: On Nadine Gordimer’s The House Gun Posted using ShareThis … more →

Tags: 5584, Literature, spirituality, athiesm, Damage, Elizabeth Costello, God, Nadine Gordimer, origin humanities

Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee

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 →

Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Elizabeth Costello

rare J M Coetzee video interview1 comment

Sean Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: A Dutch friend recommended the website of the television station VPRO, “Holland Doc.” I … more →

Tags: Books, South Africa, Video, Dutch, writers and, Van de Schoonheid en de Troost, Of Beauty and Consolation

the literature police2 comments

Sean Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: A new book, The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences, by South Afri … more →

Tags: Books, South Africa, The Life of Times of Michael K, censorship, The Literature Police, Waiting for the barbarians

Disgrace4 comments

flakyartist wrote 4 months ago:       Ahem. My official review: This book made me want to read Twilight. Yes, Twilight: perfectly pe … more →

Tags: BIBLIO PILE, Books, disgrace

March

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 →

Tags: slice of life., Books, Thoughts, spring

(Needs a Title)2 comments

flakyartist wrote 4 months ago:   Lying in bed last night, he turned to ask what I was thinking about. “Vegetarians.” I … more →

Tags: BIBLIO PILE, slice of life., Books, Kirk Curnutt, Thoughts, Quotes

R W Johnson has opinions

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 →

Tags: South Africa, Andre Brink, Nelson Mandela, Opinion, R W Johnson, R.W. Johnson

5 Books for 20082 comments

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 →

Tags: Books, 5 Books for 2008, Barack Obama, Junot Diaz, The Top 5 Books for 2008, Zoe Wicomb

Where Have All the Quotation Marks in Novels Gone? (Quote of the Day / Lionel Shriver)6 comments

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 8 months ago: Have you noticed something missing from the novels you’ve read lately? Such as all the quotation mar … more →

Tags: Quotes of the Day, Books, Fiction, Novels, writing, Authors, Junot Diaz, Bad writing, james frey

The Freedom of Imagination

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 →

Tags: Literary, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, F.Scott Fitsgerald, Ayn Rand, Somerset Maugham


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