Last night - Yay finally turned the last page on Athol Fugard’s Tsotsi [forethoughts] last night. But I’m ‘yaying’ not because I couldn’t wait to finish it (far from it, it was quite the literary journey), but rather I was getting … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Mon 29th June 2009
June 29, 2009 By 2 Comments
07:00 - Start of a new week but not a new book. I got snagged up with something important at the end of last night, so I never did get a chance to finish Tsotsi [forethoughts]. I’ve drowned my sorrows about that this morning by reading a couple … [Read more...]
Forethoughts: Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
June 28, 2009 By 2 Comments
After finishing an unscheduled but hugely enjoyable read of Song For Night by Chris Abani [afterthoughts], I return to my 'organised' reading pile to find my literary feet still firmly planted on African soil, with a virtual move southwards to the … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Sat 27th June 2009
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Last night - Got around to reading that 1907 New York Times article on de Maupassant that I was talking about earlier in the day, the one that centred around Edouard de Maynial’s 1906 biography La vie et l’oeuvre de Guy de Maupassant … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Fri 26th June 2009
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08:00 - With the breaking news of Michael Jackson’s death, I didn’t do any reading toward the end of last night. So that set me up with a mission this morning - to read Isaac Babel’s Guy de Maupassant (there's an online version of it HERE). … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Wed 24th June 2009
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07:00 - A Tolstoyan start to the day with a read through of Alyosha the Pot (can be read for free at Fifty-Two Stories). A great story, albeit short, but ohh so sad. Not a clever move starting off the day with such a depressing story perhaps, even if … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: Tsotsi Time!
June 23, 2009 By 2 Comments
Tsotsi Time!, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. For today's Daily Bookshot, it's a timely snap of the next title I'm tackling in my never-decreasing reading pile - Athol Fugard's Tsotsi (Canongate). I'll say more about it in my … [Read more...]