Book Club

Pangolin plays a prank – Avril Van de Merwe

Pangolin plays a prank – Avril Van de Merwe

Written by on August 27, 2021 in Book Club, Children's Books

Pangolin was so polite. Accidentally she bumps into a lion who wants to eat her but she worries about his feelings not to offend him as he was not smelling to lekker. Pangolin plays a trick on lion as she doesn’t want to use her scales for her self defense. She then tries to distract […]

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How many ways can you say goodbye? Refiloe Moahloli

How many ways can you say goodbye? Refiloe Moahloli

Written by on May 27, 2021 in Children's Books

A beautifully proudly South African book. Interactive. You can scan the QR code Refiloe reads the story as you listen. This is a great addition to the book as it helps you pronounce all the different language goodbyes properly. 11 friends on a journey in a hot air ballon and as they leave them we […]

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The soul hunters – Chris Bradford

The soul hunters – Chris Bradford

Written by on March 2, 2021 in Book Club, Children's Books

Review by my sonA book about a girl named Genna who was attacked in park but an American boy named Phoenix saved her She thought the boy saving her was just a coincidence but a week later she realises that something is up when she was kidnapped by the same people in the park and […]

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Beyond Order – Jordan B Peterson

Beyond Order – Jordan B Peterson

Written by on March 2, 2021 in Book Club, Self Help

This book has come out during time of chaos when we are all feeling overwhelmed with covid. It gives you some rules during this time of pandemic . Book in process of being reviewed ABOUT BEYOND ORDER The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.  In 12 Rules for Life, […]

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Made with love and Plants: Tammy Fry

Made with love and Plants: Tammy Fry

Written by on February 28, 2021 in Book Club

Plant based diets are the new buzzword. My daughter is on a mission to eat healthier so any recipe book that promotes healthier recipes I try and get. Seems like there is a new revolution to make every day veggies taste like meat so any meat lovers that are trying to have a plant based […]

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Don’t be shy Bushbaby – Avril van de Merwe

Don’t be shy Bushbaby – Avril van de Merwe

Written by on January 27, 2021 in Book Club, Children's Books

Beautifully illustrated by Heidi Kate Greeff. The dedication in the start of the book is cute. Book’s dedication ” to the little ones, the quiet ones, the watchful and the hidden ones. I see you. “ Many of the animals from the jungle were trying to get bushbaby out of his hole, interrupting poor owl’s […]

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Oneness with all life – Eckhart Tolle

Oneness with all life – Eckhart Tolle

Written by on January 2, 2021 in Book Club, Self Help

If you read power of now, the new earth by Eckhart tolle and were convinced by Oprah this this was the new guru of our times, here is a simple book with small tit bits of his teachings. In a very comprehensive way it deals with going beyond thought, the power of the present moment […]

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Can you make things go faster: Clarkson

Can you make things go faster: Clarkson

Written by on December 26, 2020 in Book Club, Self Help

Opening the book, I was surprised that Jeremy Clarkson is such a wordsmith as I only know him from the Top Gear show where we saw him driving fast cars in different weird scenarios with his two friends. Clearly he has lots to say as he has almost 15 books to his name. I can’t […]

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The Practice – Shipping creative work – Seth Godin

The Practice – Shipping creative work – Seth Godin

Written by on December 2, 2020 in Book Club, Self Help

I love being creative and when I got this book I thought it would give me more insight on letting creative juice flow but was a bit hard to grasp at the start as textbook but as you read it you got his train of thought. He is right. I am action driven. Creativity is […]

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Cook eat repeat – Nigella Lawson

Cook eat repeat – Nigella Lawson

Written by on December 2, 2020 in Book Club, Recipe

This books looks like a cooking textbook. It starts of with what is a recipe. Nigella uses her words evocatively and wrote a thesis explaining to us what a recipe is. It is almost like an encyclopedia. A is for Anchovy. Almost 10 pages with very small writing talking about anchovies. very text heavy book […]

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