My longterm blog pals Dorothy and Pete both use this as a means to reflect briefly over their year in blogging, and I’m shamelessly jumping on the bandwagon. I’ve cut and pasted the first lines of each month’s first blog post for 2010. Charlotte’s Web in 12 lines. Let’s see what we have: December: Today is World AIDS [...]
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2010 in First Lines
Posted in 2010 Goals, tagged 2010 in review on December 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
From the Burg to the Berg
Posted in Life in Heidelberg, Life in the Burg, Living in Germany on December 24, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Change is upon me, in all kinds of ways. My novel is sitting with three publishers on three different continents, and I am trying not to refresh my inbox forty times a minute. Patience, I have been told, is of the essence. Luckily, I have all kinds of things to keep me busy. Christmas is [...]
Reading Firsts
Posted in Books, Christmas, E-books, Reading on December 16, 2010 | 12 Comments »
‘Tis the season to be unbelievably busy and my attention span for reading is like that of a fruit bat in an apple orchard. I’m swooping from one thing to the next, discarded books in my wake (first 20 pages of The Finkler Question, opening paragraph of C, first half of a Phillip Kerr) and a strong [...]
Reading about AIDS
Posted in AIDS, Books, Reading, tagged Adam Levin, Anso Thom, Didier Fassin, Edwin Cameron, Jonny Steinberg, Kerry Cullinan, Rebecca Brown, Sizwe's Test, Susan Sonntag, The Gifts of the Body, Witness to AIDS, World AIDS Day 2010 on December 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Today is World AIDS Day. Around the world, landmarks are being lit red, celebrities are turning off their Twitter streams and hundreds and thousands of people are renewing their commitment to universal access and human rights. My home country, South Africa, has the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world. It seemed [...]
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