Posts tagged ‘liturgy’

Khanya Blog

• Tales from Dystopia XXIII: Academic freedom and university apartheid 16 April 2019
  Sixty years ago the Extension of University Education Bill was passed by the South African parliament, which enforced university apartheid. At the time I was a student at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), and on 16 April 1959 there was a protest meeting addressed by the Chancellor at which all members of the university […]
• The Black Angel 15 April 2019
  The Black Angel by John Connolly My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the fourth book of the Charlie Parker series that I have read, though it is actually number 6 in the series. I read them in the order 2, 11, 2, 1, 6. I read this one because it was about halfway […]
• Am I an Indie Author? 11 April 2019
  About seven years ago I discovered the Smashwords web site, through my kinsman Graham Downs (kinsman is such a nice word, but I think strictly speaking one should say “affine”, since he’s my wife’s cousin). He had published a short story there called A Petition to Magic. I found the Smashwords site interesting. I’d written […]
• Every Dead Thing: Urban fantasy or whodunit? 6 April 2019
  Every Dead Thing by John Connolly My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first in a long series of books by John Connolly featuring private detective Charlie “Bird” Parker, his ex-assassin bodyguards Angel and Louis, a psychologist, Rachel Wolfe, who does criminal profiling for the New York police, and his former New York […]
• A note on current reading 28 March 2019
  A note about current reading… My current reading list has got stirred up a bit, with some books being pushed down the pile, mainly because I need to give priority to library books that I have to take back. I recently read The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly, which I’d picked up in the […]