Bibliotheraphy Thursday: Only Child by Rhiannon Navin (Video)
Welcome to Bibliotherapy Thursday, where I will recommend books to suit your moods. Before I go on, I must make a disclaimer. I am not a medical doctor or a registered therapist. I cannot give advice on mental health, nor will I even attempt to do so. If...
Human Rights Day 2018: 5 books to commemorate Sharpeville
Human Rights Day 2018 comes at a time when apathy threatens to destroy and divide us. Here are 5 books that will help us understand what the day really means. Human Rights Day: Remembering the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 As I’m writing...
South Africa Library Week 2018: What the library means to me
I remember the first time I went to the library. Yes, I see you calling bullshit, but it’s the truth. It was before I went to school. My mom took me with her to the public library, where she used to take out Afrikaans novels. I can’t remember what she...
Hello limbo, my old friend
The purpose of this story on limbo is not to make you feel sorry for me. If sympathy is your default setting, stop. I don’t want it. I just want to write through this. I don’t remember a time that I didn’t want to run away from home. My skin...
How books saved a young man from drugs: Book review of The Pavement Bookworm by Philani Dladla
Featured in Expound: my review of The Pavement Bookworm by Philani Dladla: Meet the Pavement Bookworm Philani Dladla’s story first started to make waves in 2014/15 when the world took an interest in a young man standing at a robot on Empire Road,...
Creative writing exercise 1: An experiment in world-building
A creative writing exercise in world-building, created during the University of Iowa’s MOOC in creative fiction and non-fiction: Creative Writing Exercise: Operation Cixi [2443 words] A day for whiskey Tabitha looked up unto the hills...
Culinary therapy: How learning to cook helped me deal with the stress of thinking I had cancer
Culinary therapy helped me get through a rough patch this year: It didn’t start out as me seeking solace or trying to get through the day. I’d just had a partial nephrectomy to remove a tumour from my left kidney, as well as a c-section to...
Dear Future Boss: An open letter about my writing and editing skills
Dear Future Boss, You’ve met me on the streets or online. Perhaps I’ve given you my business card, or invited you to join my Facebook page. You may even have seen that I’m “open for business”, but what does that mean? My name is Anna Stroud, and I’m a writer...
Book review of Through a Black Iris: Alick Chingapi writes about his travels from Cairo to Cape Town
Alick Chingapi has a writing voice that will take him places. Meet travel writer, Alick Chingapi Alick Chingapi’s debut book Through a Black Iris — part memoir, part travelogue — is an absorbing account of the author’s trek from Cairo...Daily Words
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My grandmother sends her regards and apologises will make you laugh, cry, scream, curl up in a ball, cry again and eventually, smile.
Full review: https://reviewsonatrain.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/book-review-my-grandmother-sends-her-reg...
Grey Magic by JT Lawrence: An enchanting read about a modern-day witch
For the record, Raven Kane is a goddess. More accurately, she’s a witch from Joburg with a Twitter account; a modern-day sorceress with a herb garden, a menagerie of...
