Category Archives: Book Challenge

Have you ever read a book with so many layers, that once you finished it, you had a hard to telling someone what is was about? I’ve just finished James Baldwin’s 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, as part of … Continue reading →

On the western edge of the South-West Townships of Johannesburg, also known as Soweto, lies the community of Braamfisherville. I once visited this community, accompanied by colleagues from the HIV organization I volunteered with at the time, to invite a … Continue reading →

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself — the latest book I’ve read for my 100 books challenge — is a fairly quick read and an important book from a historical perspective. Published in 1845, the Narrative … Continue reading →

Rarely do I give a book a bad review, but Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel Brideshead Revisited deserves just that. I initially added this novel to my 100 books challenge because it was on the Modern Library’s list of 100 best English-language novels of … Continue reading →