Celebrate Summer with Smiths Gins
Discover Smiths Gins – South Africa’s award-winning small-batch gin range, now available exclusively on Takealot from 27 October 2025. Celebrate summer with soul, flavour, and handcrafted perfection. A Toast to South African Spirit There’s something magical about a...
The Roses: A Softer Spin on a Brutal Classic
The decision to retitle the new adaptation of Warren Adler’s The War of the Roses as simply The Roses feels deliberate. Where Adler’s novel and its 1989 film version, directed by Danny DeVito and starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, revelled in the poisonous...
Book with Race Day Events for the drive of a lifetime
Lume Agency and Race Car Events recently invited me to a turbo-charged, fuel-injection, high-octane morning that I'll never forget. Wait, let me check if there's any other petrolhead jargon I can throw in here. Nope, all good for now 🤭🏎️ Race Day Events gives you the...
The Shape of Monsters is Five Stars
Author CL Hellisen sent me a link for an early listen of their Audible Original, The Shape of Monsters. I've set myself the task of reading 365 books this year. Yes, you read that right. Because with audio I get to read so much more while I'm multitasking. To date,...
Bloedlemoen Gin: The Crimson King* of citrus

Bloedlemoen Gin: The Crimson King* of citrus

Bloedlemoen Gin is another local craft gin distilled by the wonderful people at Hope on Hopkins. This citrus, spicy sweet gin includes botanicals juniper, blood orange, angelica root, liquorice root, cassia, nutmeg, cardamom, Grains of Paradise, coriander and...

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Goodreads 2014 review

Goodreads 2014 review

This year I set out to read 100 books. I ended up reading 123. If you want to see the full list of books I read this year, you can check it out here. Some books that stood out for me were: Wonder by R.J. Palacio The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and...

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Review of Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

Review of Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

The Colorado Kids was a mystery novel by Stephen King, which was published in 2005 the speciality crime and mystery publishing house Hard Case Crime. I had read The Colorado Kid twice, the second time changing my two-star rating to a three. As far as I was concerned,...

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Goodreads update: 60 of 100

Goodreads update: 60 of 100

It's been 15 books (12 of which were penned by Stephen King) since my last update. Yes, I know, it's overdue. Random thoughts about what I've read: The Regulators and Desperation both freaked me out. They're hauntingly similar, except in The Regulators the cop was...

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Long overdue update on the Goodreads Challenge

Long overdue update on the Goodreads Challenge

The blog has been quiet, I know, especially on the book front. April has not been a great month. As you may or may not know, I was in an accident on 29 March, in which my car was completely written off. So aside from the minor injuries I had, I was supremely...

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Some of my favourite books

Some of my favourite books

I love books. More than that though, I love stories. My grandfather told us such amazing stories (which probably explains my current affection for audiobooks); my mom bought me loads of comics as a child (better reward than candy, etc.) as well as book/tape read along...

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Why I registered for and then gave up on NaNoWriMo

Why I registered for and then gave up on NaNoWriMo

November: cue the sweaty palms and sleepless nights for many aspiring novelists. Because, thanks to the wonder that is the internet, everybody has been exposed to the pressure of writing 50 000 words in 30 days – the 30 days that are usually the most hectic in...

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Time for a book post again, I think

Time for a book post again, I think

I found this on Goodreads, and it's been a while since I checked whether I'm a conformist or not 😛 so I looked at how many and which titles on the BBC literary list I've read. Currently I'm only 22% conformist, with ambitions of being much more so! * Update 22...

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