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Tove_Reads
Mine Boy | Peter Abrahams
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An important book in South African literature. It‘s an easy and entertaining read. Hard to believe it‘s from the 40s - before apartheid and still so accurate 🤷🏼

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freeatlast1137
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Pickpick

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Lawrence Anthony details his struggle to save the last northern white rhinos.

Wonderfully written, albeit a hard read especially because rhinos are my favorite animal.

123/357

Butterfinger I may be opening a can of worms, but I wish these were the animals to be cloned. The more recently extinct. The animals that my grandchildren won't see in nature. 1w
freeatlast1137 @Butterfinger I couldn‘t agree more. 6d
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totefairie
The Viper's Nest | Peter Lerangis
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peanutnine
Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
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Absolutely loved this one! I've never really seen much of Trevor Noah's work but he had a crazy childhood & his storytelling ability was amazing. Born in South Africa during apartheid & growing up in the wake of it, he learned to adapt himself to fit in with different groups. He speaks a ton of languages & does great impressions of his friends and family. I was laughing so much throughout and yet I learned a lot about South African history as well

TheBookHippie This is required reading here for English 12th grade. 2w
peanutnine @TheBookHippie that's amazing! As it should be 2w
willaful @peanutnine @TheBookHippie my daughter listened to it for high school as well. Excellent choice. 2w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1w
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nicoleh360
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“From the day a girl is born, she is told she needs a love story to survive. It‘s everywhere. In poetry and music and films and books. She‘s told life is worthless without love. She is told SHE is worthless without love... But what no one tells her, what no one talks about, is that it can kill her. That the very thing they say can save her can destroy her. Love is a trap, darling.“ (Chapter 3)

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peanutnine
Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
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May nonfiction #ReadingBracket2025
This one was a winner, no contest

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dabbe
The Man in the Brown Suit | Agatha Christie
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Catsandbooks Wonderful! 👏🏼 💖 2w
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Tove_Reads
Mine Boy | Peter Abrahams
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Preparing for a 1-2 week long sick leave. Also have 5 books from NetGalley. Do you think this is enough? 🫣

Ruthiella You might need a couple more! 😂 2w
BarbaraJean If the stacks aren‘t falling over, you don‘t have enough yet 😆 2w
Cheryl_Russell Maybe? 🤔 I would probably add a few more just to be safe. 😄 2w
BookmarkTavern No! What if you need backups? 😂 2w
36 likes4 comments
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The Woman Next Door | Yewande Omotoso
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Got my library haul of 5 books from SA, and one from Botswana 🙂💪🏽🥳 Bring on summer, I‘m ready! In August-September I will start very intensive writing projects and studies, so now it‘s time to #readthesummerof25 Something I just came up with 🤣 Read, read, read the books you want, about the themes you want, off your shelf, off your e-reader, help your library by reading their books. You know what I‘m talking about! ❤️

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Tove_Reads
The Promise | Damon Galgut
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Ruthiella I‘ve read The Promise. It was good! 👍 4w
JuniperWilde Can you share 2-3 recommendations? Strong characters, well written. 4w
Tove_Reads @JuniperWilde I will read the tagged one, and The Woman Next Door, Bitter Fruit, and Dust Devils, so can‘t say anything about them yet. My book club enjoyed July‘s People. Born a Crime is great. Welcome to Our Hillbrow opens eyes. I‘ve read lots of great nonfiction, but maybe most are not that interesting if one is not intrigued enough about the subjects. 4w
Tove_Reads @Ruthiella Good to hear! 4w
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