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colourful literary humour (5), classic (4), literary (4), Audio (3), novella (3), existential (3), short stories (3), experimental fiction (2), practical (2), love (2), Librivox (2), nature (2), great short stories (2), biography (2), historical fiction (2), etc (2), the evolution of miscellaneous customs & anthropological significance of things (2), endangered); chronology around the airport lounge (1), essentially about process of writing (1), a woman and her mentor; like an allegorical JM Coetzee novel eg Waiting for the Barbarians or Heart of the Country; biblical (1), the different lives of two Muslim SA Indian sisters (1), 30-something relationships with men; mainly set in Yeoville (1), the younger empancipated/lucky (1), everyday short stories mainly about 20-something (1), funny and unpredictable (1), Tannie Marie and Zaba; more recipes - divine loaf & weerligskoek (1), boyhood transition from innocence (sexual awakening); in 60s South Africa in Verkeerderspruit; nostalgic (1), devout and strict mother who brought them up on the Cape Flats; she worked as a nurse (1), off to Brazil on a mission to bring back Newbouldia mundii seeds (a native African tree (1), literature (1), the life of a fictitious character who was aboard the Mendes when it sank (WW1) (1), displaced by kindertransport from Prague to Wales (1), cosy drama-adventure in which Margery Benson and her unlikely assistant Enid Pretty go to New Caledonia in quest of a small golden beetle (1), before she came to Gilead; a deprived childhood and youth proceeds an earned good fortune (1), Lila's backstory (1), writes a letter of love and begats and things about himself to his seven-year old son (1), soon to die (1), An old and deeply religious man (1), but the past still eludes him and the dead haunt him (1), floating and failing to connect; the dramatic parts made me think of Sula (1), young over-privileged adulthood in the context of high-life Gauteng and a Muslim Indian family; full of sweets and Milky Lane (1), redemption & recovery; full of coincidences and myth-like sequences (1), bordering on DRC and Angola to mouth in Mozambique; he relives some of his experiences 'on the border' 20 to 25 years before (1), apathy and privilege (1), A 1-month workbook that challenges white complacency (1), Unglorious life as it is and families and funerals as they are; A Story of an African Farm x Mrs Chudd's Place x Disgrace (1), fictional account of two boys making their adventurous way from occupied France to Buenos Aires to meet up with their parents ; Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was a place of refuge along the way (1), losing a daughter (1), a brother and sister honour their resourceful (1), jazzlike intellectual first novel; set in Nigeria; a background of evangelicals (1), pragmatic memoir by male South African-born heart surgeon with emphasis on career and family (1), categorical and radical or eclectically interesting interpretations (1), a collection of essays on literary theorists (1), re the relationship between a Japanese general and a British POW; this story is incorporated in The Seed and the Sower; was the basis for the film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1), SA literary Journal (1), wry or wistful tales translated from Bengali (1), posthumous pickings of the leftovers which were discarded by the poet himself (1), rather than biography. (1), GK Chesterton's assertive (1), universal truths about guilt and judgments; part psychology (1), assasinated at the age of 35 (1), political history of the Congo and biography of Patrice Lumumba (1), a friendship between professor and student; a documented dying (1), overlapping pieces about books (1), petitions kindness to cats (1), boy becomes cat; episodic adventure; life of strays (1), observations about chacma baboon behaviour and postulations about phyletic memory (instinct) versus learned memory (causal comprehension); sub-conscious mind and hypnosis; some overlap with Soul of White Ant (1), part (progressively) Christian religion (1), restauranteering and euthanasia (1), an uncle's wedding (1), Diary-like; a UCT academic/administrator living in Muizenberg addresses her lost son as a way of processing her grief (he had a hearing disability and died of leukemia in his 20s) (1), a Jackson Brodie (although the detective seems to be Tracy Waterhouse); adopted kids (1), Then & now; photographs of families forcibly removed from Harfield Village; memories and reflections (1), the importance of place/home in a life; loyalty to this; hope and waiting; custodianship of child & ancestral house (1), acquiring a kitten (1), a tiger on the loose (1), a holiday in the country (1), Two novellas about intrepid (and doomed) airmail pilots flying the Mediterranean and Patagonia; the first story includes childhood love interest (1), events in the life of a working class family of nine; measles (1), Last in Thomas Cromwell trilogy; TC blamed by Henry for the match with Anne of Cleves (1), provincial parks and private reserves (1), sanparks (1), the range includes transfrontier (1), Places been to (1), Lonely Planet diving; include Similan Islands of Thailand; includes photographs of remarkable sea fauna (1), profound poems and perspectives (1), Childhood anecdotes and family history of a mixed-race Aboriginal family (1), essays by writers relating to 1922 and thereabouts: the rise of facism (1), coming to terms with the death of a daughter and a marriage (1), simple essays or meditations upon objects or subjects (1), short essays and pieces (almost as for textbook) (1), familarisation and defamiliarisation: observations (1), short collection of observations gleaned from the streets of Paris suburbia (1), journal account (one year and a bit) of a consuming affair with a Russian diplomat (1), Trauma in the context of childhood (1), a married upper-class woman abandons her family for a young lover and a bohemian life (1), more mini-essays (1), set in the mid-sixties (1), paying attention to metaphysical sensations (1), philosophy in the style of a children's book (1), background (in French) and works (1), 12 beautiful photographs of dead leaves preceded by text (1), resurrection of a passion (1), recounting of family difficulty before birth of child (1), reflection and diary extracts (1), meaninglessness & guilt/condemnation) (1), gravekeeping (1), Shackleton's Antarctic expedition and tale of survival mixed with personal memoir (1), Two brothers with antipathy for each other spend a year at a private gsme lodge (1), A toy aeroplane gone over the wall leads to discovery of an intruder. (1), Revisiting past - struggle in SA and communism/famine years in China (1), A coming-of-age adventure involving an inheritsnce (1), Novel with twin towers tightrope walker as nucleus (1), Loss and romance (1), zen-like tips for artists (1), Liberation for two married Senegalese women in mid life (1), About a family of actors and Lincoln's assassin (1), a bit like James Joyce (Ulysses) in the township with a drug addiction (1), 'living autobiography' sometimes almost in the style of a stand-up comedian (1), a talented chef and a resourceful 75-year old instagramer go on a romp before the world ends (1), A doomsday prophet (1), poems with dashes (1), Courage in the context of anxiety (re death (1), Einstein's theory of relativity (1), reflections on how time spent at the harsh west coast seaside in Australia has been an integral part of his life (1), a sympathetic portrayal of a black sheep; a story of loyalty and love between a white man and a black woman in the 1940s or 50s (1), Joyce's father was an abusive drinker; Wilde's father was caught up in an imbroglio with Mary Travers; and Yeats’ father who was pathologically incapable of finishing a painting conducted a passionate correspondence in his old age. (1), at different times in life and as 1st-3rd person narratives; novel for the powerpoint silde chapter (1), told in different tenses (1), Sympathetic portrayal of the intersecting lives of a group of friends and acquaintances from the focal point of youth (1), Poems of the everyday and greater (1), stories and sketches (1), Championing women and housewives -- and chemistry; set in the 60s (1), an incident of power-play in academia (1), The ordinary working and married life of a farm boy who becomes an English academic; an intractable marriage (1), Mansfield) (1), etc (Joyce (1), lesbianism in Paris (1), Wiggenstein (1), Prodigal son returns home (1), knows nothing about himself or his family. In later life he searches and finds out (1), Wales and Scotland with sketches and paintings (1), based on the true story of a black Anglican priest in the Eastern Cape in the late 1800s (1), round England (1), a mini-thesis-like overview including plans of layout (1), comic book neighbourhood world of self-sufficient children with adult-like preoccupations and sensibilities (1), A selection of paintings with an intro (1), half informal crime procedural - re sexual assault against girls and women (1), let down by the church (1), A journalist tracks the fanciful story behind SA's first nuclear rocket launched in the Karoo (1), a Swiss tourist falls in love with a Samburu who becomes a paranoidly jealous husband (1), intro to Zen more as a spiritual practice than a philosophy (1), A farce about misappropriated identity - objective and subjective (1), historical account of the in-humanness of colonial mining in Springfontein (Springbok) (1), A fictionalised (1), Tree classification (43 groups) by means of a dichotomous key and leaf characteristics (1), An old man lives all by himself on an island and discovers the near-drowned body of a refugee (1), comedy of flirtations and conversation (1), about a failure to nuture; annihilation of the self; the damaging effect of racialism on society and the individual; like The Little Mermaid (1), wry subtle humour (1), The Dong with a Luminous Nose (1), petitions (1), translated from the Italian (1), analogous (1), rhetorical (1), prose and poems (1), witty cartoons (1), set in Scotland (1), set in Shanghai (1), callousness (1), some not (1), hard-working (1), The Jumblies (1), a pig (1), five tales (1), philosophy and art (1), political (1), four congruent stories (told by tramp-like characters) preoccupied with shelter; they are like humorous physical theatre (1), themed snippets; aphoristic and epigrammatic (1), miscellaneous academic essays featuring architect Mies van der Rohe and modern artists such as Vito Acconci (performance and installation) and Robert Rauschenberg (collagist) (1), reduced to essential elements (1), existential play (1), of no occupation (1), narrator of diary is in limbo; wryly the malaise of mundane life (1), colonial Kipling; Cape Town context (1), Wodwo (1), includes Owl & Pussycat (1), they are like Maslow's hierachy of needs in story form (1), tips and tasks (1), poverty in India (1), a holistic approach (1), the trajectories of two friends from working class families (1), death (1), writers (1), as experienced by an abiku (Yoruba child spirit); in a re-iterative and surrealist (or dream-like) style (1), justice (1), black holes (1), literary theory (1), essay (1), yes (1), jazz (1), compassion (1), letters (1), anecdotal (1), cats (1), courage (1), psychology (1), 1991 (1), modernism (1), renaissance (1), Alzheimers (1), Eliot (1), particle physics (1), Hindu scripture (1), raising daughters (1), family and culture (1), work and play (1), imposters (1), Austerlitz (1), places to go (1), opinions (1), temperance (1), foraging (1), menopause (1), kleptomania (1), aesthetic (1), neurobiology (1), tenderness (1), about nuclear family and poverty (1), In late 1600s Matsuo Basho goes on pilgrimages through Japan (1), some with captions (1), written by physician who himself has ADD; the principles are sensible and empathetic (1), marriage & fidelity; relationships (1), academic speculation; thermodynamic speculation; the setting is a country house past (early 1800s) and present; (1), ways of birds in communicating (1), courtship & parenting (1), exploits and tomfoolery in England in WW2 prior to posting to Algiers; raconteur-style (i remember the film) (1), attachments; a kind (1), loving and humorous look at human foibles (1), a selection of cubist (tubist) reiterative works by Fernand Leger from 1912-1915 (1), crime and rehabilitation; re the politics and ethics of correctional services and also the inherent reprobate nature of male adolescents; narrated by a youthful reprobate in addictive lingo (1), two with same message about choice or choosing; unclear to me whether they are traditional or colonial stories (1), impressions of Jacob (1), from a small boy at the beach to his death at 26 in WW1 (1), using negative space; a tribute to Thoby Stephen (1), semi-scientific evidence for the health benefits of proper breathing (1), 18 virtues from politeness to love (1), wrecks and sea-life; wryly written; the adventure of it reminds me of Willard Price (1), poems and short stories and a play piece; Thistles is familar; Ghost Crabs; Fern (1), a selection of familiar and unfamiliar words (1), some accessible (1), satirical monthly column contributions (1), kids' sci-fi/space travel; graphic novel version (1), hubris; includes The Selfish Giant and The Nightingale and the Rose (1), tender fairy tales about self-sacrifice (1), malaise of youth in Californian suburbia with romantic adventure (1), politeness being a show of virtue and love exceeding virtue; 4 cardinal virtues of the middle ages are: prudence (1), a comedy in disguise (1), To Paint a Water Lily (1), commentary on poems inter alia The Thought Fox (1), anthropology etc (1), paranormal and abnormal phenomena and speculation in the realm of molecular biology (1), a potpourri of scientific fact (1), scenes within scenes; playwrights & actors (1), describes: pioneering the aqualung; some of the physics of scuba diving; the first bathyscaphe; exploring caves (1), as he goes (1), in five cantos (1), to see themselves (1), a pageant put on in a local community invites the audience and readers to see humanity's progress (1), Hero's journey story dating about 2000 BCE; hero is Mesopotamian; pieced together from sets of tablets and fragments (about 7 sources) written in cuneiform script (1), miscellaneous writings by Einstein: manifestos (1), love); Krishna exhorts Arjuna for battle (1), approx 500 BCE; conversation between Arjuna and Krishna (god of protection (1), based on a real incident (1), Chinse lady pirate (1), a grand parody (1), about choice - responsibility versus detachment - against context of Russian invasion of Czecholslavakia; about happiness and sadness; intellectual (1), philosophical; with intrusive narrator (1), about fidelity and friendship; friends and lovers in exile (1), as a landscape painter might (1), composing haiku (1), tales of cowboys (1), Japanese honour; the Tale of the Two Dreamers is the premise of The Alchemist (1), forest reclamation acorn by acorn (1), helpful guidance on reading Mrs Dalloway (1), a tale written in 1953 as a Reader's Digest commission for a series 'The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met'; syntropy (1), A fox alights upon two hens; narration-style is as for children's book but dramatic scenes and dialogue as if from play; intention might be to legitimise the fox's perspective without any sentimentality at all (1), evocative as if painted (1), mournful poems (1), hybrid of coffee table and motivational; it showcases underwater sea life and behaviour in the kelp forest and anthropologically advocates tapping into our wild ancestral roots via the ocean; also a personal odyssey (1), overview of structure of the universe (1), Java and Sumatra as an employee of the East India Co; the founding or British claim upon Singapore (1), a case for unconscious but directed forgetting (1), his time in Malaya (1), biography of Thomas Stamford Raffles (1), predominantly Sumerian and Assyrian; it includes the story of the Flood (1), and an outline of the range of research carried out there in the 1950s (1), background to the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth (1), sometimes by association (1), Orphan boy in Kentucky with bad start in life makes his way in the world (1)
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