Books Review April 2011
One Day By: David Nicholls THIS friendship started as a one-night stand and continued over a twenty year period. The story picks up on the same date each year, chronicling the relationship of Dex and Em through the late eighties, nineties and the millennium. David Nicholls did a superb job bringing all three decades back [...]
Books Review March 2011
Booky Wook 2 by Russell Brand MOST of us here in the US know Russell Brand as that stick tall, weird hairdo guy who’s been in a couple of movies and apparently caused a Barcelona lightning storm back in Blighty. We know him as the paparazzi ninja, fighting comic who recently became even more infamous [...]
Books Review February 2011
Mr Stink by: David Walliams Illustrations by: Quentin Blake I WANTED to change it up a bit this month so decided to explore the world of contemporary British children’s books. I was hoping to find the next Harry Potter or Nanny Mcphee but the one that I returned to, the one that kept calling my [...]
Books Review January 2011
Room, by Emma Donahue “PEOPLE are locked up in all sorts of ways,” Ma tells the unremitting prime time journalist. And metaphorically Ma is right but not everybody has been locked up, under duress, in a room for seven years. Right off the bat, through the eyes and voice of a five-year-old boy named Jack, [...]
Recommended Reading from Tanya
Hart Island, By Seth Edgarde I HAVE never read a book in black and white. When I say black and white I mean a book that flows like a 1940′s movie. But for some strange reason, every visual I got from Edgarde’s first novel came to me in different shades of grey. It had that [...]
Books Review December 2010
The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson THE Finkler Question, this year’ s Man booker Prize winner by Howard Jacobson, is not for everybody. A few avid readers and intellects will salivate all over Jacobson’s seamless sentences, gifted grammar and perfect paragraphs. They will applaud how he captures the essence of jewishness with exquisite detailed precision, [...]
Books Review November 2010
Them Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson JON RONSON, a brave and very funny journalist, sets out to discover why so many radical groups talk about a mysterious “them,” an anonymous faction of powerful people who apparently rule the world. Alarmed, I read on. Who on earth are them? What are them up to and [...]
Books Review October 2010
The White Tiger – By Aravind Adiga THE PULSE of India, a complicated country divided by money, corruption and poverty with over a billion people living off its land, is felt through the heart of a man named Balram Halwai. Born in the darkness, in an area no tourist puts on his “to do list” [...]
Books Review September 2010
UJ Book Reviewer TANYA is a proud mother of three, and a wife that can brew a mean morning tea. Her kids and husband provide her daily dose of both joy and insanity so she claims to be a well balanced individual. When she grabs a moment, somewhere between 8 o’clock and 8:05, Tanya crams [...]
Books Review August 2010
UJ Book Reviewer TANYA is a proud mother of three, and a wife that can brew a mean morning tea. Her kids and husband provide her daily dose of both joy and insanity so she claims to be a well balanced individual. When she grabs a moment, somewhere between 8 o’clock and 8:05, Tanya crams [...]
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