"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
~ Anton Chekhov
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Suess
Where to start when discussing the most played character in English literature? For now (and to stop this blog post from turning into the thesis it could so easily be), I’d like to share my undying love of the last two reinventions of Sherlock Holmes on the big screen and the latest novel as endorsed […]
I blogged about the National Book Awards over here, and since then it turns out there’s been a slightly ugly mix-up about the Young People’s writing category. To sum it up, Lauren Myracle‘s book Shine was mistakenly made a finalist instead of the novel Chime by Franny Billingsley. The problem is that she was asked to step out of the awards so […]
In a parallel argument to the ‘No Gays Please’ attitude to most YA texts, this week the Guardian discussed the whitewashing of book covers in order to prevent the cover harming the book sales. But Larbalestier believes the issues of “whitewashing” of covers, ghettoising of books by people of colour, and low expectations for these books are industry-wide. […]
Every month on the NOMU blog Paul and Tracy review one of our stunning cookbooks. This month they took a look at Donna Hay’s Modern Classics 2. What we loved about this cookbook is its effortlessly unfussy layout, everything is so clearly presented, each recipe detailed in perfect precision and the uncomplicated photography […]
Warner Bros. Studio has announced that they will cease shipping of all Harry Potter films on 29 December 2011. The final instalment of the franchise hits South African shelves in November, giving consumers just over a month to complete their film collection before the films are pulled from the shelves. As of Dec. 29, no […]
Hold onto your hats, Diablo fans! Blizzard has recently dropped quite a bomb regarding Diablo III, in that they are offering the game for free! But as we all know there is no such thing as completely free, especially when it comes to Blizzard. You can only get Diablo III free upon signing up for […]
Who will turn out to be The Devil In The Detail? President Jacob Zuma has given a team of senior retired judges two years in which to get to the bottom of the allegations that hundreds of millions of rands were paid in bribes related to the R70-billion arms deal. For more on this article […]
Twenty years ago on this day the creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, passed away. Although the world has changed in many ways, his legacy has remained and continues to grow even so long after his passing. With seven major series and ten movies there is no doubt that the Star Trek universe is here […]
Gearburn.com reported this morning that the action-adventure game Portal 2 won the coveted “Ultimate Game” category in the 2011 Golden Joystick awards: Portal 2, the mind-bending action-adventure from the creators of Half Life won “Ultimate Game”. Creating portals, navigating a dying production plant and combating the hateful AI called “GlaDOS” turned out to be an experience that every […]
