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Looking back on my Africa Reading Month

Last month, I only read books from Africa.

6 December 20211 December 2021Africa, literature, Reading challengeLeave a comment
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Starting an Africa Reading Month

Inspired by the new Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, a friend suggested to do an Africa Reading Month.

8 November 20215 November 2021Africa, Afrikaans, literature, Reading challenge, South Africa2 Comments
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Interview with Marita van der Vyver

Last week I interviewed South African author Marita van der Vyver! You can watch the complete interview in this post.

29 June 202129 June 2021Afrikaans, interview, literature, Marita van der VyverLeave a comment
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On László Krasznahorkai’s “The Melancholy of Resistance”

This book was not really my cup of tea.

11 May 20205 May 2020László Krasznahorkai, literature, The Melancholy of ResistanceLeave a comment
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Two historical novels

Last month, I read the two historical novels Het pauperparadijs by Suzanna Jansen and HhhH by Laurent Binet. Two very different books that I had very different expectations of as well.

5 May 2020Het pauperparadijs, HhhH, Laurent Binet, literature, Suzanna JansenLeave a comment
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About ‘Ulysses’ and ‘The Odyssey’

Two years ago, I read Ulysses for the first time. Last semester, I did a course on this incredible book and I reread it.

29 January 201824 January 2018James Joyce, literary studies, literature, UlyssesLeave a comment
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About ‘Spiridion’ by George Sand

As some of my readers might know, I love nineteenth-century French literature. So when Patricia Worth contacted me if I wanted to review her new translation of George Sand’s Spiridion, I was very excited. I have wanted to read something by Sand for quite some while now.

15 January 201814 January 2018George Sand, literature, Patricia Worth, Spiridion2 Comments
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What I will be reading in 2018

A new year and some new reading challenges! I have some cool new reading projects planned.

8 January 20188 January 2018literatureLeave a comment
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About Max Havelaar, or how dead is the author?

Max Havelaar is one of the big classics of Dutch literature, but was writer Multatuli really as noble as everybody thinks?

22 May 20178 December 2018literature, Max Havelaar, MultatuliLeave a comment
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About wanting to read it all

How do you handle the fact that you'll never be able to read everything you want to read?

15 May 201714 May 2017literatureLeave a comment

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  • My first conference since the start of the pandemic
  • Review ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’
  • Starting an Africa Reading Month
  • On pandemics and sci-fi

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