Current Read: Beloved

Current Read: Coconut

Kopano Matlwa’s debut novel about black people (women in this case) growing up in white suburbia, the book not only tackles racial issues, but also issues of identity and youth.

For the longest time after this book was first published back in 2007 it was on every avid reader’s lips. I carried the excitement, in part, because here was a young black woman doing something I aspired to and am still working at doing (penning a successful novel). I did not however read the book back then. I walked into my favourite Exclusive Books a while back and there sat one copy - as though placed there just for me. Needless to say, I am now reading and so far loving the book. 

Current Read: The Thing Around Your Neck

A collection of stories by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the thing around your neck published in 2009 and highly revered. The book features a collection of 12 stories ranging in topic from love, violence to faith and the human spirit. With this in mind, I hope to fall head over heels with not just the book but, it’s author as well.  

Current Read: The Man Who Turned Into Himself

This is not the sort of thing I would normally pick up but, I was looking through my book shelf the other day and there this book sat beckoning tediously for me to pick it up and I fought myself for the a little bit but I started reading anyway and honestly, it isn't all that bad so far.

I’ll let ya’ll know how the rest of the book pans out once I've finished reading it. 

Current Read

I went out during lunch with the intention of buying a pair of shoes, that mission was quickly abandoned when I walked past the Exclusive Books. I bought myself Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and I could hardly contain myself as I started reading it at Steers whilst waiting for my burger and chips.
This is going to be one of those that I can hardly pull myself from; I can feel it in my fingers.  

Current Read: The God of Small Things

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997, The God of Small things is author  Arundhati Roy’s debut book and promises to be a great read as it contains all the aspects to make a book mention worthy in my eye; 1. It is an award winning piece of literature, 2. It deals with human issues and speaks to human experiences, and 3. It has been dubbed by some as a tad bit controversial.

Here’s to a few night cuddled up in bed sipping slowly on a cup of tea and delving head first into another (hopefully) good read. 

Current Read

In what I like to call my “book depository” – which is basically a stacked pile of books in a corner in my bedroom – a book has sat in patient wait of the day when I would give it the attention it deserved for almost two years. I’ve partially read it, wrote assignments and even an exam on it but I never appreciated or even completed it. I then remembered, randomly last night whilst watching Parenthood and drinking coffee a line from the first few pages of the book that reads “Things have a life of their own, it’s simply a matter of waking up their souls” this beckoned for me to once again revisit the novel and that is precisely what I did.

Written by the author of acclaimed “Love in a Time of Cholera” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is my current re-read and this time I promise to finish it.   

Current Read

I've had this book for almost a year now and have never thought to read it but, yesterday the bell sounded and i'm finally delving into it. 

I'll give you my thoughts on it as soon as i'm finished reading.

Current Read

I am finally reading the Alchemist. So excited!!!