![]() When I heard that Deborah Steinmair, Afrikaans author, and Sara-Jayne King, journalist and CapeTalk broadcaster, would be conducting an interview with Jodi over Skype during this year’s Toyota US Woordfees, I jumped at the opportunity to attend. I started buying them one at a time, at first cautiously dipping my toe into the murky waters of ethics and morality, and returning soon afterwards to buy all of the remaining Picoult books in the store. Most South Africans will know her as the author of My sister’s keeper, a novel that was brought to the big screen in 2009.Ī few years ago, a selection of her novels were reprinted, and I first discovered them in a big wooden box in a local bookshop. ![]() If you enjoy fiction in which morality is questioned and opposing views on problematic topics are presented in such a way that you start to question your own beliefs and opinions, you might be familiar with the work of American author Jodi Picoult. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And Debbie talks extensively about her Hollywood memorabilia collection that she wanted to build a museum for, but instead had to auction off after her third husband put her into financial ruin. Every financial hit made her go out and work harder to recoup her losses to support herself and her two children – Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher. Debbie Reynolds, though always considered one of American’s sweethearts, took her fair share of knocks, especially from all three of her husbands! Yet, she got right back up again and kept moving. Debbie really has no connection to the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle that we Beatles freaks know and love, except maybe for the time in 1974 when she was invited to a party at Mick Jagger’s house and her children insisted she go and take them with her! A short but funny story that she tells in this book. ![]() If you see “Bonus Book Review ” in the headline, you will know that book doesn’t mention the Beatles, making it easier to just pass-by the review if you’re not interested.Īs I said in my last post about Carrie Fisher’s book, I bought that book as a companion read to Unsinkable: A Memoir by Debbie Reynolds(aka Princess Leia’s mom in real life). I’m going to create a new headline for books that I’ve read that aren’t Beatles related. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been featured on nationally televised programs such as The Today Show, Fox Business News, MSNBC, and CNN, and he has been recognized by USA TODAY newspaper as one of the top twenty scholars in the country. Pinkett has received numerous awards for business and technology excellence including the Information Technology Senior Management Forum’s Beacon Award, the National Society of Black Engineers’ Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and the National Urban League’s Business Excellence Award. ![]() He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of his fifth venture, BCT Partners, a multimillion-dollar research, consulting, training, technology, and analytics firm headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.ĭr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker, author and scholar, and as a leading voice for his generation in business and technology. ![]() ![]() The affair is somehow permissible because "the war pressed, the war deranged, the war undid, the war excused". He is elevated to medicine as a scholarship boy, and, in a splendid set piece in an Adelaide bookshop, Dorrigo, now a military surgeon, meets a small-framed, gleaming-eyed and galvanising woman named Amy. Innocent of electricity, his family "slept under skins of possums they snared". Dorrigo's boyhood took place far from the grief and benefits of the big world, however. By his middle years he is a national figure – his own face staring back at him "from charity letterheads to memorial coins". His Australian protagonist is a surgeon, Dorrigo Evans, who to his own amazement becomes legendary in postwar Australia for his wartime courage in the face of Japanese captors. Let me say, though, that his book ranges far in time and human fascination beyond that central and barbarous piece of engineering. His father was an Australian prisoner of war on the infamous "narrow road", and the railway ran through his childhood, too. R ichard Flanagan, the Tasmanian writer acclaimed for such novels as Death of a River Guide and Gould's Book of Fish, has a right to focus on the so-called Burma railway, built with forced labour by the Japanese in the second world war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Part wild-walk, part memoir, Windswept follows an exhilarating journey from Abbs's isolated, car-less childhood to her walking the remote paths trodden by extraordinary women, including Georgia O'Keeffe in the empty plains of Texas and New Mexico, Nan Shepherd in the mountains of Scotland, Gwen John following the Garonne, Simone de Beauvoir in the mountains and forests of France and Daphne du Maurier along the River Rhone. In this powerful and deeply inspiring book, Annabel Abbs uncovers women who refused to conform, who recognised a biological, emotional and artistic need for wilderness, water and desert - and who took the courageous step of walking unpeopled and often forbidding landscapes. But not all women did as they were told, despite the dangers history reveals women for whom rural walking became inspiration, consolation and liberation. ![]() ![]() Annabel Abbss Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a. 'A beautiful and meditative memoir' Publishers Weeklyįor centuries, the wilds have been male territory, while women sat safely confined at home. Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book. I felt as though I were being lifted, carried up to peaks' Charlotte Peacock, author of Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd 'Moving and memorable' Virginia Nicholson, author of How Was It for You? The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. ![]() |