I found Petina Gappah's collection of short stories at the second hand book shop near to my house. After many I downloaded SnapScan, and it was this particular book that made me do it. You see, I didn't have any cash on me and the bookshop only accepts cash or SnapScan and so I did it.… Continue reading Read Women Write: Book 7: Petina Gappah: An Elegy for Easterly
Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 6: Sarah Lotz: The Three
What an exciting book in both form and plot! Four plane crashes happen at the same time in different places around the world and the only survivors are three children. A religious fanatic suggests they are the harbingers of the apocalypse. Can you hear that music – it’s thrilling (best onomatopoeic description – dee noo… Continue reading Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 6: Sarah Lotz: The Three
Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 5: The Pumpkin Seeds and Other Gifts
The Pumpkin Seeds and Other Gifts is a collection of writing from FEMRITE, the Ugandan Women Writers Association. The women writers in the book are from all around Africa and the collection emerged from them coming together at the 2008 FEMRITE Regional African Women Writers Residency. Lucky fishes! FEMRITE was the organisation that along with… Continue reading Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 5: The Pumpkin Seeds and Other Gifts
Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 4 – Strange Fruit – Helen Moffett
One of the benefits of Metrorail’s delays and break downs is more reading time on the way to work. I’m only in the second month of this project and I’m already behind on publishing the pieces on the books that I’ve read. That pile doesn’t even include this current one, or Gemsquash Tokoloshe which I… Continue reading Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 4 – Strange Fruit – Helen Moffett
Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 3: Lauren Beukes: Broken Monsters
Lauren Beukes is a writer that probably needs no introduction to many of you who will read this blog. She's a South African speculative fiction writer, and Broken Monsters is her fourth book. She has won like a gazillion awards and is the envy of writers around the country (and world, and possibly the universe).… Continue reading Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 3: Lauren Beukes: Broken Monsters
Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 2: Mamle Wolo – The Kaya Girl
The Kaya-Girl is the first young adult fiction I have read since I was a young adult (which seems a very long time ago). I often think about what young women are reading about, and how it influences their ideas of their world and their own power, but I haven't engaged much with what's out there… Continue reading Read Women Write 2014/15: Book 2: Mamle Wolo – The Kaya Girl
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