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My planning threadKiff
Bakgat
Schweet!
The real Mzansi
8/10
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Bakgat
1. Spud: The Madness Continues
2. Spud: Learning to Fly
✔3. Deadlands
✔4. When the Sea is Rising Red
5. End Time
✔6. Unbreakables
✔7. The Kennaway Woman
✔8. The Shining Girls
5/5
I read the first few pages of Exhibit A - looks really good and I was surprised by how funny it is!
My Planning list so far:Kiff
1.Saturday night at the Palace: A play in one act
2. Flamingo Feather
3. Mafikeng Road And Other Stories
Bakgat
4. Unto Dust and Other Stories
5. Cold Stone Jug
6. How Graham Weir has accidentally managed to stay alive: stories and plays by Graham Weir
This sounds fun, but how do you know which books are Kiff?
No, it goes like this - if you read 3 SA books then you're kiff. Read 6 and you're bakgat, etc.Or rather, your reading is kiff. Or you've reached the kiff stage, etc.
Oh sorry, I had a moment there :)
Oooh, just spotted this. I liiike.3/10
Kiff:
Moxyland
In a Different Time: The Inside Story of the Delmas Four
Bakgat:
The Man in the Brown Suit
A Quilt of Dreams: A Novel
Schweet:
Ladysmith
A Beautiful Place to Die
The real Mzansi:
The Innocence of Roast Chicken
Riotous Assembly
Age of Iron
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Kiff:
Completed Fighting for Justice
Completed Like Clockwork
Completed The Bang Bang Club
Bakgat:
Completed Sometimes there is a Void – Memoirs of an Outsider
Completed The Unlikely Secret Agent
Schweet:
Completed Stones Against the Mirror: Friendship in the Time of the South African Struggle
Completed The Native Commissioner: A Novel
Real Mzanzi
Completed Final Deadline: The Last Days of the Rand Daily Mail
Completed Infanta
Completed Onsigbaar
Started the planning and then never got to read the books.. Completed Mafeking Road: and Other Stories
No; I didn't make one because most people don't read much SA fiction, but this has been going on for a while so I'm thinking I should just cut it off at the end of the year.
Please Note: I'm ending this challenge on 31 December 2012. If you want to read more for this challenge or complete it, you have to finish your books before then. You can still join and use any South African books you read from 10 March 2011 onwards. After the challenge has ended, I'll post the results.
Cool!I went through the other posts and updated the top post as well.
Come on Carolien, just one more book! You can do it!
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I went through the other posts and updated the top post as well.
Come on Carolien, just one more book! You can do it!"
Busy with Onsigbaar. Will hopefully be finished next weekend!
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Oh, err, I actually ended this challenge on 31 December (see messages 22). Although I see I also promised to do a tally, which I never got around to...
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What about the same 10 book structure, but covering 10 different African countries?
Another alternative would be to stay with the South African theme, but go for 9 books, each set in a different province plus a bonus 10th book if we want to.
I like the idea of broadening it to Africa, but given that most of us struggled a bit I'd say make it simply 10 African books - either written by an African author or set predominantly in Africa.
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I prefer 1 October as well, with the 2 challenges just started and 5 new ones coming up for November. Thinking of making it about 6 months long though.
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http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/201...
There's definitely no shortage of material. It took me about 9 months last year to read the 10 books. I had a look now and there's probably about 15 that I can use for the challenge lurking about, but they're not necessarily easy reading. We'll probably only have a few people doing this again, so let's try and get a few more books read. What about 30 June as end date then it's just more than a book a month which most people can manage to fit in.
There's no shortage of choices but a lot of African novels are literary or political fiction - heavy stuff that most of us don't read that often.30 June is a good date - it's a nice easy schedule and I don't think we have anything else starting or ending then, except MishMash.
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recommend something plz, tired of reading about Usa
Of the books I read for this challenge I liked:
Also Death of a Saint by Lily Herne, but you'll have to read Deadlands first.
I also recommend:
And my first book for the challenge will be
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You have to read books that are either written by South Africans or set predominantly in South Africa (a few scenes in SA don't count). You can read both fiction and non-fiction.
The challenge:
Read 3 books - that's kiff
Read 5 books - that's bakgat
Read 7 books - Schweet!
Read 10 books - that's the real Mzansi!
Kiff
Katherine
Lu
Bakgat
Claudia
Schweet!
Lauren
The Real Mzansi
Carolien