Category: Reviews (page 5 of 5)

Book Club: The Suspect – Michael Robotham

Last year some friends and I tried to start a book club. It fell apart in stages as people realised they had different understandings of the concept – some wanted it to be primarily a social gathering, while the readers amongst us wanted to focus on the books (oddly enough).
Since I seem to be remarkably devoid of opinions lately – hence the huge gap between posts – I thought it might be a nice idea to post reviews of the books I’m currently reading. A kind of one-woman cyber book club if you will. Comments and suggestions are of course welcome. Continue reading

Have Your Cake and Eat It

Frankly, I’ve never understood the saying “You just want to have your cake and eat it too.”  Well, obviously.  Why would you have cake and NOT eat it?  Unless you were some kind of masochist or maybe it was that weird buttery-creamy cake that comes from cheap supermarket bakeries.  Blegh.  Obviously I have a little bit of a sweet tooth (I can hear people coughing and spluttering at the understatement of the millenium) so the more cake the better I say.  And so it would seem that the High Tea at the Oyster Box Hotel was made with me in mind. Thanks guys! Continue reading

An African Dream

It seemed as if it had been ages since I’d been to a really good gig…a girl could start to have withdrawal symptoms. So when I heard last month that Wonderboom and Johnny Clegg would be playing in Pietermaritzburg on the 17th April, I almost didn’t believe it. Colour me excited. Unsurprisingly, with that combination of artists, it wasn’t just a good gig, it was phenomenal. Continue reading

Home Talk

It seems fitting that after my post on The Beloved Country, I happened to be going to watch a show dedicated to her songs the same night. Prosound kindly invited me to join them at the Barnyard Theatre last night to watch Diamonds and Dust, and it was the perfect reminder of one favourite thing about my country that I forgot to mention yesterday…the sounds of South Africa. Continue reading

The End of a Giant Love Affair?

My relationship with the Springbok Nude Girls, and Arno Carstens, got off to a rocky start but from the moment I first heard Genie, I’ve been faithful in my devotion. We weathered the change from the crazy moshpit days of SNG to the more sedate tones of Arno’s solo project with barely a hiccup. Needless to say, a new release always has me quivering with anticipation, and I grabbed a copy of Arno’s latest offering, Wonderful Wild as soon as it hit the shelves. And now I am left asking myself, is this the beginning of the end for us? Continue reading

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