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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]