????? kwani nobody is reading out there??

pix9 · (#1 (**permalink**))

I'm sure people will be on my case, but kwani no one has somad anything interesting recently??? Even if its a Mills and Boon... ama those pacesetter series tu-novels. By the way, what happened to them? who remembers them??
Insist on your right to go off on a tangent ( Dambudzo Marechera 1978)

pix9 · (#2 (**permalink**))

Good luck! Okri is a bit heavy, i would prescribe frequent breaks with a few lighter reads! I'm reading something along the same lines- sony labou tansi's The seven solitudes of Lorsa Lopez. Ya, its worse than the title suggests, so i won't even go there... interestng though.. this magical realism, but i'm just worried that i can't quite remember the storyline, as i go along. Reminds me of Okri's Astonishing the Gods, which I have read more than twice, and I'm yet to figure out exactly what was cutting....!

Insist on your right to go off on a tangent ( Dambudzo Marechera 1978)

choklet · (#3 (**permalink**))

Just finished reading "Angela's ashes" by Frank McCourt. Excellent book. It made me laugh and cry....

heathcliff · (#4 (**permalink**))

i have just finished reading "the curious incident of the dog in the night time" - a fantastic fantastic book.
its about this young boy who is spastic but incredibly bright. he discovers his neighbour's dog has been killed and decides to investigate so we are on this journey with him and we get to see things from his perspective. really good but also heart-wrenching.

i am now ready for some mindless chic-lit....

mimie · (#5 (**permalink**))

Heathcliff, I think I know the book you refer to. What I like abt it is the way it skips some chapters, very sparodic, but owing to the boy's condition.

heathcliff · (#6 (**permalink**))

yes mimie i suppose its sort of all over the place but i really loved it - definitely in my top books of the year.

thierry - the alchemist is my favourite book of all time - really changed my life that book

pix9 · (#7 (**permalink**))

This Alchemist is getting kinda famous- i'm feeling rather illiterate for not having read it. I'm currently reading Jonah Anguka's Absolute Power: The Murder of Robert Ouko. Fascinating read..., if you disregard his obvious attempt to clear his name of the issue... but what amuses me most is the fact that even as I read it, I can't help feeling those pangs of fear for the 1990's when you couldn't mention Ouko's name in fear of getting eliminated....

Insist on your right to go off on a tangent ( Dambudzo Marechera 1978)

heathcliff · (#8 (**permalink**))

the book that everyone else seems to have read but me is Sebastian Faulk's Birdsong. i keep meaning to read it but never do... is it really as good as everyone says?

mimie · (#9 (**permalink**))

Havent read it. Just recently managed to read the much acclaimed Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

well, i thought many things about that book, it made me think, i mean did i have a choice, but... i still prefer to shut up abt it.

am syking up to read The Colour Purple- shhh, its just one of those books i either have read or watched. can't quite remember what i did with it, but yeah, i will be reading it.

anyone read Foe by JM Coetzee? Now there's an interesting book. warning, you won't get the jist of it if you havent watched/read Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Foe is a sort of postmoderninst play on Defoe's book. really interesting. Pity Friday still doesnt have a tongue! But i like the fact that it has a female narrator

and hey, who's read Ngugi's new book? i hear its still in Kiuk but Kimani Njogu (this is a rumour) is translating it into English. meantime am dying to know if he is still caught up in his struggles with age-old marxism.

So please tell me (regina re) who has reaD nGUGI'S BOOK - HEY'ALL KIUKS ET AL, WHO HAS READ IT? HIT BACK ON THIS PLEASE

CeeWorm83 · (#10 (**permalink**))

>This Alchemist is getting kinda famous- i'm feeling rather
>illiterate for not having read it. I'm currently reading Jonah
>Anguka's Absolute Power: The Murder of Robert Ouko.
>Fascinating read..., if you disregard his obvious attempt to
>clear his name of the issue... but what amuses me most is the
>fact that even as I read it, I can't help feeling those pangs
>of fear for the 1990's when you couldn't mention Ouko's name
>in fear of getting eliminated....
>
>
>Insist on your right to go off on a tangent ( Dambudzo
>Marechera 1978)

I'm reading "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept" by the Paulo Coelho, who also wrote the alchemist. It's one of the greatest books I have read in the past five years or so.

I guess I got hooked on everything written by Paulo Coelho after "The Alchenmist" but i dare say "By The River Piedra I sat down and Wept" one is a more interesting and inspiring read.

It's about Love, (lost/found/lost/found) the struggles involved with it, how it affects our lives in a posituve and negative way, and what you can learn from the negative lessons. But the greatest theme there was SACRIFICE..as in a love that is so pure and great that you forget about self and put the other person's dreams and ambitions first. Sounds complicated but the book really is quite simple, but at the same time profound!

You know the way you can read something and just have to put the book down so you can actually reflect and think about it? I had to do that so many times. It's deep!

Any other Paulo Coelho fan out there?