By Margaret Sacks
Read: February 2010
Rating: Hmm
I want to talk about this book in two capacities–as a story, and as a representation of South Africa. My bestie gave it to me for Xmas, and it looks like a pretty rare find to me. I had no idea there were kids books about SA in 1989, when [...]

By Hergé
Read: September 2009
Rating: Transitional
One can definitely feel the transitional quality of this volume. It FEELS like a Tintin book, but the story is quite choppy, and for good reason–originally, it was running as a serial. There is a consistent story arc, but it’s not like later books where everything is geared toward that one [...]

By Naomi Novik
Read: June/July 2008
Rating: Fascinating
I put off reading EoI for a long while because I just wasn’t in the mood. I read the first three Temeraire books back in ‘06 and they have since been passed on to both my parents. All our paperbacks now have warped spines and white, messy edges. Signs of [...]

Adam Ashforth
Rating: Decent
Read: December 2005
I’m unsure how to categorize this one. It was required reading for my Apartheid & After class. The main issue? Witchcraft.

By Helen Fielding
Rating: Excellent.
Read: May 2005

Helen Fielding has proven herself to be one of my favorite authors. Bridget Jones saved me on a 17-hour flight home from Cape Town and I found a British copy of Cause Celeb in Strand NYC. This is Fielding’s first novel, and if I can manage to pull off a [...]

By Albert Camus
Rating: Poor.
Read: March 2004
Category-ReqSchool Category-Ugh
For Rebellion & Conformity, or whatever it is we’re studying right now, we’re reading The Stranger. We’re maybe two chapters from the end, and I am not moved.
Meursault is the most apathetic character I have ever read about. This makes him boring. He doesn’t care what happens to him; [...]