read reflections

I blog about books, poetry, anything that resonates, really.  I call these posts 'read reflections'.  A click on a book title will take you to the page of reflection.  

These posts not only depict my love for words and literature, they also mean to contribute to a reading culture.  Also, because writers appreciate readers.

sidenote: 'Lots to do, so little time' or so the saying goes... I may not find the time to do a hearty review/reflection on my reads as often as before.  But, but.  I will still post an image of a book, post a quote, mention a writer, blog an article of interest, paste bits of poetry, and the like.  So do leave a comment under the relevant post to have chat about said post, to hear more of my thoughts, or simply to share yours. 

Anderson, Jon Lee - Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (2010 revised ed.)

Burger, Edward B. and Starbird, Michael - Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz (2005)

Carson, Anne - Autobiography of Red (1998)

Carver, Raymond - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales (many, many centuries ago, haha)

Clason, George - The Richest Man in Babylon (1926)

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (1902)

de Nooy, Richard - Six Fang Marks and a Tetanus Shot (2007)

Diaz, Junot - Drown (1996)

Donne, John - The Major Works (1990)

Fitch, Janet - White Oleander (1999)
                     - White Oleander (re-read)

Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South (1854–1855)

Heaney, Seamus - Beowulf (A New Verse Translation) (1999) 

Hemingway, Ernest - The Complete Short Stories of (1987)

Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go (2005)

Kelley, Kitty - Oprah: A Biography (2010)

Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

Kundera, Milan - The Joke (1967)

Lorde, Audre - Sister Outsider (essays) (1984)

Márquez, Gabriel García - Love in the Time of Cholera (1989)

Marlowe, Christopher - Doctor Faustus, a play (17th C)

McGregor, Jon - This Isn't The Sort of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You (2012)

Millar, Clive (ed.) - 16 Stories (An anthology of shorts by South African writers) (1976)

Milton, John - Paradise Lost (1667)

Munro, Alice - Selected Stories (1996)

Morrison, Toni - The Bluest Eye (1970)

Murakami, Haruki - South of the Border, West of the Sun (1992; 1998)

Orwell, George - 1984 (1949)

Poe, Edgar Allen - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1908)

Poitier, Sidney - The Measure of a Man: A Memoir (2001)

Roy, Arundhati - The God of Small Things (1997) or directly to its guest post feature

Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Sexton, Anne - Dr. Y (1997)

Sullivan, Courtney J - Commencement (2009)

Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Lord of the Rings series 

Vanzant, Iyanla - Peace from Broken Pieces (2010)

Venter, Eben - Trencherman (2006 Afr.; 2008 tr. Eng.)

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple (1982)

Wood, Lucy - Diving Belles (2012)

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Poetry Anthologies

Seeds in the Black Earth (1988)