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colourful literary humour (5), classic (4), literary (4), novella (3), Audio (3), etc (3), short stories (3), existential (3), great short stories (2), Librivox (2), Third in a series (2), the evolution of miscellaneous customs & anthropological significance of things (2), experimental fiction (2), nature (2), practical (2), love (2), biography (2), historical fiction (2), an Irish family and place; 4 children (various & dispersed) in the thrall of their aging mother (1), a psychiatrist hears the lost love story of an exceptional woman (1), 8 baleen whales (1), 9 toothed (8 beaked (1), 1 sperm); 15 species of dolphin; 7 species of seals (fur & true) (1), bildungsroman of a girl from a broken home (1), set in Stellenbosch; an estate agent (1), high sales stakes and a missing student (1), makes me want to be a fish-twitcher; the origins of SAIAB (1), reminisces and reflections on family (1), life - off the cuff (1), candid and placatory (1), a suspicious suicide in the police station; a police reservist and a police commissioner who is a protective mother (1), after death of a 'husband' and what's in store after that (1), centered around the death of a brother (1), goat's milk and mouldy ones (1), domestic history of Irish family over three generations (1), Zoo city is Hilbrow-like; grunge crime & myth or scifi (1), An Artificial Friend (robot) who is a true friend to a teenager (1), inaccessible allegory with name-playing and in-house jokes (1), photographs (dated now) with blurbs re birds; nice to see their nests (1), leaving behind and community (1), an Irish girl's dramatic monologue; her world is populated with nearly-boyfriend (1), three novellas or long short stories; all memoir based (1), wee sisters (1), hard ones (1), third brother-in-law (1), soft cheeses (1), Henry James' typist comes into her own (1), longest friend; from paranoia to liberation (1), whey ones (1), losing a daughter (1), a ornithologist's overview of species (1), jazzlike intellectual first novel; set in Nigeria; a background of evangelicals (1), Unglorious life as it is and families and funerals as they are; A Story of an African Farm x Mrs Chudd's Place x Disgrace (1), pragmatic memoir by male South African-born heart surgeon with emphasis on career and family (1), restauranteering and euthanasia (1), Diary-like; a UCT academic/administrator living in Muizenberg addresses her lost son as a way of processing her grief (he had a hearing disability and died of leukemia in his 20s) (1), a Jackson Brodie (although the detective seems to be Tracy Waterhouse); adopted kids (1), Then & now; photographs of families forcibly removed from Harfield Village; memories and reflections (1), acquiring a kitten (1), devout and strict mother who brought them up on the Cape Flats; she worked as a nurse (1), a tiger on the loose (1), an uncle's wedding (1), a holiday in the country (1), events in the life of a working class family of nine; measles (1), Last in Thomas Cromwell trilogy; TC blamed by Henry for the match with Anne of Cleves (1), provincial parks and private reserves (1), a brother and sister honour their resourceful (1), everyday short stories mainly about 20-something (1), commemorative project that includes recipe cloth artworks (1), endangered); chronology around the airport lounge (1), apathy and privilege (1), A 1-month workbook that challenges white complacency (1), fictional account of two boys making their adventurous way from occupied France to Buenos Aires to meet up with their parents ; Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was a place of refuge along the way (1), A farce about misappropriated identity - objective and subjective (1), young over-privileged adulthood in the context of high-life Gauteng and a Muslim Indian family; full of sweets and Milky Lane (1), the life of a fictitious character who was aboard the Mendes when it sank (WW1) (1), off to Brazil on a mission to bring back Newbouldia mundii seeds (a native African tree (1), 30-something relationships with men; mainly set in Yeoville (1), boyhood transition from innocence (sexual awakening); in 60s South Africa in Verkeerderspruit; nostalgic (1), Tannie Marie and Zaba; more recipes - divine loaf & weerligskoek (1), funny and unpredictable (1), the younger empancipated/lucky (1), the different lives of two Muslim SA Indian sisters (1), a woman and her mentor; like an allegorical JM Coetzee novel eg Waiting for the Barbarians or Heart of the Country; biblical (1), essentially about process of writing (1), confronting past involving an affair and a fall from the Drakensberg (1), Courage in the context of anxiety (re death (1), A journalist tracks the fanciful story behind SA's first nuclear rocket launched in the Karoo (1), validating approach to undoing destructive fighting patterns (1), gravekeeping (1), Novel with twin towers tightrope walker as nucleus (1), A coming-of-age adventure involving an inheritsnce (1), Revisiting past - struggle in SA and communism/famine years in China (1), A toy aeroplane gone over the wall leads to discovery of an intruder. (1), Two brothers with antipathy for each other spend a year at a private gsme lodge (1), Shackleton's Antarctic expedition and tale of survival mixed with personal memoir (1), Orphan boy in Kentucky with bad start in life makes his way in the world (1), is a teenager in the oxy era (1), loving relationships and living spaces in New York - four men from early adulthood to middle age (1), Classic and contemporary hauntings (1), post-death sceanarios and ghost stories (1), Instead of beetle (1), A mindful (1), A husband & wife team study lions (1), Liberation for two married Senegalese women in mid life (1), spanning past and future and Hawaii and North America; first part is in the style of Henry James with facilitated marriages (1), doppelgangers and changelings (1), About social media (1), I liked The Clothes They Stood Up In (1), A meditation on earth and humanity from the perspective of the International Space Station with six astronauts aboard (1), An opaque narrator gives an account of being housekeeper and carer to her adult brother. It's not clear the nature of their relationship nor whom is at the mercy of whom. (1), including same-sex (1), Three or four generations connected by name or descent (1), brown hyena and jackals in Botswana in the 1970s (1), epistolary Sense and Sensibility (1), A modern (1), A brief trip to Greece to give a writing course; the narrator writes about the characters she meets and the apartment she stays in (1), Three characters (a youth and two afflicted women) are brought together when an extraterrestrial octopus flashes by. (1), a colour-change; written in a biblical style (1), A relationship between two smart girls and an affair with a married man (1), Loss and romance (1), About a family of actors and Lincoln's assassin (1), based on the true story of a black Anglican priest in the Eastern Cape in the late 1800s (1), the range includes transfrontier (1), philosophy in the style of a children's book (1), background (in French) and works (1), 12 beautiful photographs of dead leaves preceded by text (1), resurrection of a passion (1), poems with dashes (1), meaninglessness & guilt/condemnation) (1), Wales and Scotland with sketches and paintings (1), set in the mid-sixties (1), round England (1), a mini-thesis-like overview including plans of layout (1), comic book neighbourhood world of self-sufficient children with adult-like preoccupations and sensibilities (1), A selection of paintings with an intro (1), half informal crime procedural - re sexual assault against girls and women (1), let down by the church (1), paying attention to metaphysical sensations (1), a married upper-class woman abandons her family for a young lover and a bohemian life (1), a bit like James Joyce (Ulysses) in the township with a drug addiction (1), recounting of family difficulty before birth of child (1), 'living autobiography' sometimes almost in the style of a stand-up comedian (1), a talented chef and a resourceful 75-year old instagramer go on a romp before the world ends (1), A doomsday prophet (1), zen-like tips for artists (1), reflection and diary extracts (1), more mini-essays (1), simple essays or meditations upon objects or subjects (1), coming to terms with the death of a daughter and a marriage (1), semi-poignant comedy about family - a nursery school teacher Jane and her carpenter Duncan who has no insecurities (1), short essays and pieces (almost as for textbook) (1), familarisation and defamiliarisation: observations (1), short collection of observations gleaned from the streets of Paris suburbia (1), journal account (one year and a bit) of a consuming affair with a Russian diplomat (1), Trauma in the context of childhood (1), sanparks (1), SA literary Journal (1), Places been to (1), Wodwo (1), political (1), death (1), petitions (1), translated from the Italian (1), rhetorical (1), prose and poems (1), witty cartoons (1), set in Scotland (1), set in Shanghai (1), callousness (1), some not (1), hard-working (1), a pig (1), five tales (1), the trajectories of two friends from working class families (1), sketches (1), Hero's journey story dating about 2000 BCE; hero is Mesopotamian; pieced together from sets of tablets and fragments (about 7 sources) written in cuneiform script (1), a case for unconscious but directed forgetting (1), Japanese honour; the Tale of the Two Dreamers is the premise of The Alchemist (1), Chinse lady pirate (1), tales of cowboys (1), to see themselves (1), a pageant put on in a local community invites the audience and readers to see humanity's progress (1), miscellaneous writings by Einstein: manifestos (1), set in the 1990s (1), love); Krishna exhorts Arjuna for battle (1), approx 500 BCE; conversation between Arjuna and Krishna (god of protection (1), in five cantos (1), based on a real incident (1), a grand parody (1), philosophical; with intrusive narrator (1), writers (1), particle physics (1), background to the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth (1), letters (1), literary theory (1), essay (1), autism (1), yes (1), compassion (1), justice (1), cats (1), black holes (1), courage (1), facism (1), psychology (1), 1991 (1), renaissance (1), cars (1), lovers (1), Alzheimers (1), raising daughters (1), foraging (1), family and culture (1), work and play (1), imposters (1), places to go (1), Hindu scripture (1), opinions (1), menopause (1), songs (1), kleptomania (1), aesthetic (1), neurobiology (1), tenderness (1), temperance (1), anecdotal (1), sometimes by association (1), and an outline of the range of research carried out there in the 1950s (1), Lonely Planet diving; include Similan Islands of Thailand; includes photographs of remarkable sea fauna (1), satirical monthly column contributions (1), comedy of flirtations and conversation (1), stories and sketches (1), wry subtle humour (1), some with captions (1), a selection of familiar and unfamiliar words (1), some accessible (1), kids' sci-fi/space travel; graphic novel version (1), petitions kindness to cats (1), hubris; includes The Selfish Giant and The Nightingale and the Rose (1), tender fairy tales about self-sacrifice (1), about a failure to nuture; annihilation of the self; the damaging effect of racialism on society and the individual; like The Little Mermaid (1), poems and short stories and a play piece; Thistles is familar; Ghost Crabs; Fern (1), malaise of youth in Californian suburbia with romantic adventure (1), a comedy in disguise (1), boy becomes cat; episodic adventure; life of strays (1), overlapping pieces about books (1), commentary on poems inter alia The Thought Fox (1), friends (1), Two novellas about intrepid (and doomed) airmail pilots flying the Mediterranean and Patagonia; the first story includes childhood love interest (1), part (progressively) Christian religion (1), universal truths about guilt and judgments; part psychology (1), observations about chacma baboon behaviour and postulations about phyletic memory (instinct) versus learned memory (causal comprehension); sub-conscious mind and hypnosis; some overlap with Soul of White Ant (1), a collection of essays on literary theorists (1), re the relationship between a Japanese general and a British POW; this story is incorporated in The Seed and the Sower; was the basis for the film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1), wry or wistful tales translated from Bengali (1), a friendship between professor and student; a documented dying (1), posthumous pickings of the leftovers which were discarded by the poet himself (1), rather than biography. (1), categorical and radical or eclectically interesting interpretations (1), GK Chesterton's assertive (1), assasinated at the age of 35 (1), political history of the Congo and biography of Patrice Lumumba (1), To Paint a Water Lily (1), anthropology etc (1), predominantly Sumerian and Assyrian; it includes the story of the Flood (1), evocative as if painted (1), scenes within scenes; playwrights & actors (1), wrecks and sea-life; wryly written; the adventure of it reminds me of Willard Price (1), describes: pioneering the aqualung; some of the physics of scuba diving; the first bathyscaphe; exploring caves (1), forest reclamation acorn by acorn (1), a tale written in 1953 as a Reader's Digest commission for a series 'The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met'; syntropy (1), A fox alights upon two hens; narration-style is as for children's book but dramatic scenes and dialogue as if from play; intention might be to legitimise the fox's perspective without any sentimentality at all (1), mournful poems (1), academic speculation; thermodynamic speculation; the setting is a country house past (early 1800s) and present; (1), hybrid of coffee table and motivational; it showcases underwater sea life and behaviour in the kelp forest and anthropologically advocates tapping into our wild ancestral roots via the ocean; also a personal odyssey (1), overview of structure of the universe (1), helpful guidance on reading Mrs Dalloway (1), Java and Sumatra as an employee of the East India Co; the founding or British claim upon Singapore (1), his time in Malaya (1), biography of Thomas Stamford Raffles (1), marriage & fidelity; relationships (1), ways of birds in communicating (1), paranormal and abnormal phenomena and speculation in the realm of molecular biology (1), from a small boy at the beach to his death at 26 in WW1 (1), a potpourri of scientific fact (1), politeness being a show of virtue and love exceeding virtue; 4 cardinal virtues of the middle ages are: prudence (1), 18 virtues from politeness to love (1), written by physician who himself has ADD; the principles are sensible and empathetic (1), semi-scientific evidence for the health benefits of proper breathing (1), using negative space; a tribute to Thoby Stephen (1), impressions of Jacob (1), courtship & parenting (1), two with same message about choice or choosing; unclear to me whether they are traditional or colonial stories (1), crime and rehabilitation; re the politics and ethics of correctional services and also the inherent reprobate nature of male adolescents; narrated by a youthful reprobate in addictive lingo (1), a selection of cubist (tubist) reiterative works by Fernand Leger from 1912-1915 (1), loving and humorous look at human foibles (1), attachments; a kind (1), exploits and tomfoolery in England in WW2 prior to posting to Algiers; raconteur-style (i remember the film) (1), covid paranoia (1)
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