Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith
Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
Sons and lovers / D H Lawrence
A doll's house / H Ibsen
Hamlet, King Lear, Othello & The First Folio / William Shakespeare
... and many more. Go to http://www.gutenberg.org.
Books may be read online or downloaded.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Lees 'Hondsdol' (Michael Green) as jy 'n Tarantino-liefhebber is
Highly recommended: Birth by Peter Harris
Peter Soal writes: "(It) is the story of the three months Peter Harris, a Johannesburg based lawyer, spent as the head of the monitoring division of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) during our first democratic election in 1994. (...) (He) describes in considerable detail the logistics in providing for many millions of South African voters. For instance, discussions on how to deliver polling station equipment: voting enclosures, invisible ink to be painted on voters' hands, the ultraviolet lights to detect if a voter had voted previously, furniture, etc. etc. How would all this equipment be delivered to the thousands of polling stations, including those in remote rural areas? This was a problem until someone hit on the idea of South African Breweries. Cold beer is available throughout the country and so the beer giant was co-opted to assist with the delivery arrangements. (...) 'Birth' reads like a political thriller which is all true. Read it if you can."
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Beukes wins Arthur C Clarke award
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes has been declared the best science fiction novel of the year and the 25th winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Reviews: “As a piece of social commentary (Zoo City) is unsurpassed in the field.”
Chair of the Judges Paul Billinger
"Zoo City filters brutal social honesty through a stunning imagination to produce a world recognisably ours and obviously different. The plotting is tight, the characterisation strong and the writing superb. We had a fantastic shortlist but for me this was the clear winner." Judge and author Jon Courtenay Grimwood
The library has it on order. Here's an excerpt so long:
“Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it’s going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam. There used to be shortcuts you could take through the suburbs, but they’ve closed them off, illegally: gated communities fortified like privatised citadels. Not so much keeping the world out as keeping the festering middle-class paranoia in.” (From: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes)
Monday, May 23, 2011
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