Category: Books
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A Visualization of the Mind: Review of the “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime”-play
Read more: A Visualization of the Mind: Review of the “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime”-playHave you ever heard someone say to you, “Read the book before you see the movie”? This is a philosophy I wholeheartedly believe in and try to live by. I generally like to read the original version of a story first and then venture into the world of its various forms of offspring, if and…
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The grimm side of fairytales
Read more: The grimm side of fairytalesWhen hearing the phrase “once upon a time…” most of us already know that we are about to be told a fairytale. I don’t have any statistical facts on this, but I can say with a fair amount of confidence that most children love fairytales. Maybe it’s because of the desire that humans have…
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Warriors: Coming of age through cats
Read more: Warriors: Coming of age through catsI get a variety of reactions when I tell people that the series I read throughout my childhood and early teens was one about cats. What’s so great about cats? How can you read book after book, thousands of pages about cats? What can the writer possibly still write about? I too wondered that…
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Summer Reading Tips – Tying the Knot
Read more: Summer Reading Tips – Tying the KnotThe summer holidays are upon us. For a few weeks, you actually have time to read! Deciding which books to dedicate your precious spare time to is a big commitment. We get that. WB presents four suggestions to help you tie the knot.1) Something old – Orlando (1928)
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Summer Reading Tips – J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
Read more: Summer Reading Tips – J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year (2007)Summer has arrived – sorry – you have arrived at summer, and with summer you’ve presumably reached freedom. You leave a year of university behind you; another year of musty academia that simultaneously bore and excite you; another year of consuming dense and authoritative ‘researches’, ‘considerations’, ‘analyses’ – half of which end in a…
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