Hi everyone! We're almost at the end of January and I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that this seems to come faster every year. When I was younger, my mom said to me that time goes faster when you're older. I didn't get it, and I'm not sure how that all works (unlike Suzelle… Continue reading Reading and Life Update 2, 2024
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Reading and Life Update 1, 2024
For many years of my life, I've been the type of person who sets annual goals. I used to write these out and prestik them up to my walls. At university, my warden in res was delighted when she checked my dorm room at the end of the first time and found that I had… Continue reading Reading and Life Update 1, 2024
South African women’s novels you should read
A few years ago I'd hoped to undertake a PhD where I wanted to read ALL the novels written by South African women in English published between 1994 and 2019. I'm rejuvenating this project
Book Dash!
Today I have the absolute delight and pleasure of being part of the 22nd Book Dash. Book Dash is a not-for-profit, South African social impact publisher of open, African picture books for very young children. Based on the evidence, their vision is that “Every child should own a hundred books by the age of five”.… Continue reading Book Dash!
Goodbye September
Is it normal to feel a constant sense of awe at how fast the time is passing, and an equivalent sense of anxiety about the things you'd hoped to achieve but haven't yet? If so, I am the most normal person you've ever met. September seems to have passed in a blur of family illness… Continue reading Goodbye September
2015 Interviews and Profiles
In 2015 I was interviewed by the fabulous Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah for This is Africa about the feminist books that have shaped my life. I talked about Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs and how it had shaped my thinking about raunch culture.
Jen Thorpe 