en-US Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:50:15 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7520060450 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:50:15 -0700 /review/show/7520060450 Ilze gave 4 stars to Onsigbaar (Paperback) by Deon Meyer
As mens al 'n paar van Deon Meyer se boeke gelees het, sien 'n mens die ooreenkomste tussen die verskillende hoofkarakters raak: Lemmer het heelwat trekke wat al vantevore by Meyer raakgelees het. Voorbeelde sluit in: Deeglike kennis van wapens, fiks en sterk, dikwels 'n buitestaander. Ek wonder of Meyer agtergekom het hoe eenders Lemmer en Cobie le Roux eintlik is ... maar die probleem met hierdie boek is as ek te veel sê, gaan ek te veel geheime verklap.
Dus bly ek ook in hierdie opsig onsigbaar. ]]> AuthorFollowing108803798 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:50:04 -0700 Review7520060450 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:47:14 -0700 /review/show/7520060450 Ilze gave 4 stars to Onsigbaar (Paperback) by Deon Meyer
As mens al 'n paar van Deon Meyer se boeke gelees het, sien 'n mens die ooreenkomste tussen die verskillende hoofkarakters raak: Lemmer het heelwat trekke wat al vantevore by Meyer raakgelees het. Voorbeelde sluit in: Deeglike kennis van wapens, fiks en sterk, dikwels 'n buitestaander. Ek wonder of Meyer agtergekom het hoe eenders Lemmer en Cobie le Roux eintlik is ... maar die probleem met hierdie boek is as ek te veel sê, gaan ek te veel geheime verklap.
Dus bly ek ook in hierdie opsig onsigbaar. ]]> Review7456725955 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:48:31 -0700 /review/show/7456725955 Ilze gave 4 stars to Tortoise Voices (Paperback) by Dorian Haarhoff
If you need a love poem with an unusual (though true) ring to it, it comes from Haarhoff's pen:

Love's String
the kite flies free
in the heavens.
in bucks, dives, bobs,
swallow swoops, eagle soars
rides sideways on still wings.
the kite's sure flight depends
on the tug of a string
_______________

At the time the string was in the hand of the artist who was still in awe of the lady this book was dedicated to. So delicate and true.

Looking back means looking here, you will discover more about Haarhoff and his images: ]]> Review7413106087 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:09:54 -0700 /review/show/7413106087 Ilze gave 4 stars to Footprints in the Sand Coloring Book (Paperback) by Christian Art Gifts
bookshelves: colouring
Not all the illustrations in the book are accompanied by a Bible verse, those that are, are the ones closest to my heart. I find it encouraging to colour the images and while you're doing so, you're repeating the verse beside it to yourself until it's embedded in your mind. Memorizing the Bible and its contents is becoming more and more important as time goes on.




]]> Review3855409071 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:02:33 -0700 /review/show/3855409071 Ilze gave 5 stars to An Apple a Day (Paperback) by Brüggemann, Ilze
bookshelves: worked-on-book-and-or-design, colouring
A book that's just a lot of fun - I've certainly enjoyed creating it!
Here's a sneak preview of the inside:

A spread I coloured myself:

Or read more about it here:

and here: ]]> Review7413058202 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:23:48 -0700 /review/show/7413058202 Ilze gave 3 stars to Philip's Environment Atlas (Hardcover) by David Wright
What I really enjoy about this children's atlas is that it not only shows you maps and photos of the places described, there is the occasional and coin of the country as well. This aspect is probably what drew me to it in the first place. The book cleverly combines sophistication with simplicity by explaining what it sets out to do in the beginning: Keys and symbols are neatly laid out. Full-colour illustrations make it more attractive and I know that I would've read this cover to cover if I'd have picked it up during my childhood. ]]> Review7345134238 Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:50:44 -0800 /review/show/7345134238 Ilze gave 4 stars to The Whole World Stamp Catalogue: Current Stamps and Postal Items from Over 200 Countries and Where to Buy Them (Paperback) by Richard West
I came across this book at a charity shop and then the translated version called Posseëls van die hele wêreld. It's a very good attempt at laying the world of philately at the feet of a young reader, with good explanations and examples of FDCs, maxi-cards, etc. Full-colour images (with stamps a third of the size of the real McCoy) accompany a few examples of definitive and commemorative stamps. The reader is shown where in the world the country is and since it was published in 1981, the stamps are dated. It makes for an interesting and informative read and links in quite nicely with my book: Map Cards for Africa, though the stamps discussed in the latter are mainly South African (and Namibian). ]]> Review7209448890 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:01:23 -0800 /review/show/7209448890 Ilze gave 2 stars to An Officer and a Spy (Hardcover) by Robert Harris
Who knew that a book this long could keep me occupied for it's entire 400+ pages?
The Dreyfus affair, 1894�1899, is filled with French names (that I eventually remembered simply because they were repeated so often) and after a very long introduction, one court case after the next. Monsieur Picquard is most certainly a "Gentleman" which, for some reason or another I thought was the title of the book! "A Gentleman and a Spy", but spying is something he only ends up dabbling in because he'd been seconded there by Mercier in 1895. After that he simply learns by trial and error and is actually a captive of the entire situation which he refuses to let go. If it wasn't for his dogged insistence on pointing out the true traitors of France, he would've been a "free man", but with a heavy conscience.
I'm not sure why I eventually finished reading the book. Perhaps it was because I wanted to find out if there's any justice in the end. It certainly wasn't because the book was all that "exciting", or that I felt "driven" to get to the last page.
It was merely something to do ... which (I'm guessing), it ended up being for Picquard too. ]]> ReadStatus8912037409 Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:25:55 -0800 /review/show/7209449591 Ilze wants to read Enigma by Robert Harris
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