Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA – Yusuf Larney, owner of a Cape Malay restaurant in the Bo Kaap, is an...
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Death comes too fast in terrific new Hunger Games prequel
Listen to the author read this review: Rowde, England, UK – After waiting for five years, fans of...
Want to learn a language? Picture books will help
Hokkaido, JAPAN – A-I-U-E-O. The first five vowel sounds of Japanese, the most fundamental building...
Author Jacqueline Wilson didn’t traumatize me
West Kirby, UK – One crisp fall evening, I stood outside in the cool autumnal wind, waiting to...
Searching for Franz Kafka in Prague
PRAGUE – As the hometown of author Franz Kafka, Prague has several places to honor him. Viktorie...
A bookworm finds Prague’s infinite tower of books
PRAGUE – The city of Prague is a good place to go for many reasons, one of them being looking at...
‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ a heartbreaking, eye...
Przysietnica, POLAND – Two years have passed since all eyes of the world were on Afghanistan, where...
‘100 Years of Solitude,’ a book worth reading again...
West Linn, Oregon, U.S.A. – Within sun-drenched pages and through a century, a timeless summer of...