Nadine Gordimer – Cannonball Read 17

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The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

August 31, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Another early Booker Prize winner from the eventual Nobel laureate from South Africa Nadine Gordimer. I have to confess, I have read a few things by Gordimer and have not really liked any of them. I actively disliked another of her novels and just generally disregarded this one. Part of my issue is that even as much as I like JM Coetzee, it bothers me that the entire continent of Africa has had three laureates and two of them have been white, and if you […]

Weekender Edition

December 9, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Started Early, Took the Dog – 4/5 Stars Not the best of the bunch, but a good one to end on. Kate Atkinson feels like she’s setting herself up to write the best writing of her career. This is a good novel, and it’s still better than the first of the series. For those of you who know about these books, they are “mysteries” in the sense that a mystery happens, and as happens with the others, Jackson Brodie, her detective kind of mostly accidentally […]

Burger’s Daughter

March 11, 2015 by bonnie Leave a Comment

A dear friend from grad school has talked about Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter being instrumental in her academic career, which piqued my interest. Plus, Gordimer just passed away a few months back, and I’ve been needing to read more South African writers as part of my journey into more Anglophone literature. I’m not entirely sure I’ve fully digested all that I’ve read, but I’ll give this review my best shot. Rosa Burger is the daughter of anti-apartheid leader and member of the Communist Party Lionel […]

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