Archive for May, 2012

Khanya Blog

• Reading old books 15 June 2019
  A couple of years ago there was a reading challenge: Read a book published before you were born this year – Modern Mrs. Darcy. I also read somewhere about the same time that reading books published before you were born makes you a better writer, because it gives you an understanding of other times and […]
• Christian psychotherapy 9 June 2019
  Someone posted this cartoon on Facebook recently. Have a look at it, and before reading any further, see what you think it is saying. You might find it interesting to write your thoughts down. I forget who posted it. The artist is on Facebook here. When I first saw it, I struggled to interpret it, […]
• Religion and modernity a century ago 21 May 2019
  Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey by Aldous Huxley My rating: 4 of 5 stars A travel diary of a journey undertaken nearly a century ago — the book was first published in 1926. On his journey Huxley and his companion(s) (whose name(s) are never mentioned) visit India, Burma, Malaya, Java, Borneo, the Philippines, […]
• Black Diamond: yuppie life in the new South Africa 16 May 2019
  Black Diamond by Zakes Mda My rating: 5 of 5 stars Don Mateza works for a security company in Johannesburg, and his ambitious girlfriend Tumi, who runs a modelling agency, is grooming him to become a “Black Diamond”, one of the nouveau riche of the new South Africa. Don is asked to be the bodyguard […]
• Out of the Silent Planet 10 May 2019
  Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve read this book at least four times, and probably more, and when a friend who had just read it for the first time posted a review, I realised that I hadn’t yet done so, and that after having read it […]