It’s that time of year again, the one that comes around all too quickly. As 2024 comes to a close, I’m trying to recover from the...

What if everything you thought you knew about Winnie Mandela was only part of the story? The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela by Sisonke...

Book review of Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Summer is coming in the southern hemisphere...

Dear friends and subscribers After much consideration, I’ve decided to move my writing to Substack. It’s an amazing platform where I’ll...

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I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up - know what they knew, be my childhood god.

This one flew across my radar from a conference I attended. I’m not an overly talkative person but I also seem to cross the boundary...

I have read a couple of other Jodi Picoult books and decided she wasn’t really for me. She seemed a bit preachy, somehow. However, The...

4 out of 5 stars If you love mystery, suspense, odd children, large old houses, flashbacks and elderly women of an evil disposition, you...

3 out of 5 stars There were so many sad stories and characters in this book that I can’t really say I loved it. I certainly wouldn’t...

3 out of 5 stars A sad, dissatisfied wife and mother writes letters to her husband which are buried between the pages of the books in his...

My rating: 4 of 5 stars As the title suggests, this book tightens your throat with its raw poignancy of an innocent girl born into a...

Everyone loves a good story. Whether it’s a shaggy dog story over a campfire, a joke at a dinner party, a poem, a song, or a memoir, and...