Libby Audiobook: Start With Why, Simon Sinek 4/5

 

Kindle: The Unquiet Bones, Loreth Anne White

 

I have enjoyed a number of Loreth Anne White’s books, but unfortunately this one did not quite land for me.

Three reasons stood out:

1. The use of present tense. I realise this is very much a personal preference.

2. There are a lot of characters to keep track of, which made it difficult at times to stay fully engaged with the story.

3. The audiobook experience was disappointing. The narrator struggled with accents, and the South African accent in particular felt off, at times sounding closer to Jamaican. Given how central setting and voice are to a story like this, it would have benefited from a narrator more comfortable with those nuances.

I also found some of the explanations, for example around elements like bobotie, to be a bit repetitive and overdone.

2/5

Kindle: Last Orders, Caimh McDonnell

It's like catching up with old friends 

4/5

Kindle Audiobook: The Perfect Girl, Andy Maslen

 

I really enjoy this Detective Kat Ballantyne series.

I figured out the murderer.

*Spoiler below*

It was the lecturer.

Boek: Custard vir die Siel, Susan Coetzer

 

Soos dit voor op die boek sê: Fiksie met 'n boodskap.

Ek geniet Susan Coetzer se skryfstyl.

Hierdie is die tweede boek in die reeks, die eerste was Oros vir die Siel wat ek ook geniet het. Nooit besef Susan het so baie boeke gekryf nie.

Dit raak effens preachy en bietjie té vir my teen die einde, maar ek het dit nogtans geniet.

Isabella is gebore en tot die ouderdom van 9 in Tanzanië dan trek hulle Suid Afrika toe. Sy trou met Herman, 'n suksesvolle sielkundige wat twee affairs het. Dit is haar reis om haarself en haar man te vergewe en mees bekangrik 'n reis om die Here weer te ontdoek.

Wat my pla, wie het die honde op gepas terwyl hulle op vakansie was.

Andersins, baie sweet, en ek sien uit vir Tjoklits vir die Siel wanneer die tyd reg is dat ek daardie boek vind.

4/5

Libby Audiobook: Do it Afraid, Joyce Meyer

 

Libby Audiobook: Relight my fire, C.K. McDonnell

 

The fourth in the series. This one was about zombies.

Love the dry British humour.