This isn’t a new title, having been published by Penguin in 2009 and brought for me by friend Mark during the infamous Exclusives.co.za firesale of 2010 for about R15. Now I don’t usually read crime novels (I used to until Patricia Cornwall ruined everything) and I usually don’t read local crime fiction because well, its…
Tag: Language of Flowers
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Language of Flowers was billed to me as the Eat, Pray, Love of 2011. As someone who considers ‘women’s literature’ an often narrow and boring genre, chick lit dressed up as literature, I only read LoF because it was the subject of an intense and expensive auction and probably deserved my attention. A bookseller…
Review of The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
I realise that this review is several months too late to capitalise on the buzz this book generated with the Man Booker award, but it still worth discussing. The first half of this book could have been narrated by Holden Caulfield of Catcher in the Rye fame. It is literary in the sense that any book that…
For the love of the (e)Book
An interesting article on the potential change that eBooks will bring to reading: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/14/kindle-books I truly enjoy digital reading. If one is to be fussy about the format of the book, then that is to be selective about reading altogether. I am currently working my way through all of the Sherlock Holmes stories, of which…
