Quotable – William Zinsser
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Literary Birthday – 20 November – Don DeLillo
Happy Birthday, Don DeLillo, born 20 November 1936.
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100 Beautiful And Ugly Words
Read more about 100 beautiful and ugly words. This article is so interesting. We love words and we love what Mark Nichol has to say. ‘One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many
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Literary Birthday – 20 November – Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born 20 November 1923, and died 13 July 2014.
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Book Review – Evita’s Bossie Sikelela
by Evita Bezuidenhout (Umuzi) R170 ISBN: 978-1-4152-0156-5 A home-grown recipe book tried and tested by the darling of South Africa, Tannie Evita. I love this recipe book, not because I like to cook but it is wonderful to read Tannie Evita’s anecdotes, photographs and South African trivia. The recipes span from Darling to safari at
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Book Review – The Water Creature
by Francois Bloemhof (Human & Rousseau) ISBN: 9780798156912 This is apparently the third book in the Chillers series. Stephen and Alana are on their annual holiday in Blue Water Bay, near Port Elizabeth. They discover a creepy house at the edge of a cliff, and they notice a frightened woman on the beach. Then they
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