LIFESTYLE | LEEFSTYL
Thursday, 10 November 2011
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Win a riveting read Lucky DistrictMail readers stand a chance to win a copy of one of the books below. To enter: Send your details (name, address and contact number) and the title of the book you would like to win to PO Box 58, Somerset West, 7129. You can also SMS your details – send the word “WIN”, followed by title of the book of your choice, to 34421. SMSes cost R1,50. The competition closes at 12:00 on Thursday 24 November.
Eerste woorde: Wenke aan Becoming: Becoming is the compelling story of university friends Alison and Marilyn, who meet again after 31 years of silence. The chance meeting forces them to revisit the dramatic incident that destroyed their friendship all those years ago. As they reconnect, both women are forced to look at parts of themselves they had long kept hidden from themselves and other people. Alison, a repressed middle-aged housewife, is in a secure but unexciting marriage, and is inwardly searching for a break from the tedium of her existence. Marilyn, outwardly glamorous and successful, conceals the scars of bitter disappointment and heartbreak. Becoming is a novel about coming of age – about how we can become whole despite our circumstances or pasts.
The Pain Merchants: FifteenNow You See Her: Nina year-old Nya survives on odd jobs
The Gotcha Game: Lucas was Bloom’s world is shattered when and optimism, finding both in really worried. He should never have copied that game from Mr Grimm’s computer, because now that it had started it couldn’t be stopped. And once it had your name... Someone had already died inexplicably, and Lucas and his friend Wacko would have to think of a way out quickly or it would be too late – not only for the two of them, but for everyone who had been dragged into this.
Jan gesels oor nuwe boek AAN wie het daardie blou broekie regtig behoort? En waarom het Jan van Tonder tien jaar gewag voor hy Die tentwag geskryf het? Dit is maar twee van die vrae wat Izak de Vries van Protea Boeke op Saterdag 12 Oktober om 11:00 aan Jan van Tonder, die skrywer van Anderkant omdraai, gaan vra. Dié skrywer van Gordonsbaai
se prosa is volgens Izak sterk en beskrywend, maar nooit macho nie. Hy gaan Saterdag die storie ágter die stories probeer bykom. Kom gesels saam by die Protea Boekwinkel, Andringalaan, Stellenbosch, proe aan ’n glasie van Delheim se wyn en ontmoet die man wat sy woorde so versigtig weeg voor hy sy stories neerpen. 0 021 882 9100.
she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to change her identity. She’d do anything to protect her new life in New York – including lying to everyone, even her daughter. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows she can’t let him pay for the real killer’s crimes. Now, years later, she risks everything she’s earned to confront the murderous evil she fled.
short supply in a city crippled by war. Then a bungled egg theft and a stupid act of compassion expose her secret to two powerful groups – the pain merchants and the Healers’ League. They discover Nya is a taker, a healer who can shift pain and injury from person to person. When a new disaster strikes, Nya finds her talent is suddenly in great demand – but at what cost?
ouers: Kinders leer die beste wanneer hulle dit speel-speel doen. Help jou kind om die meeste uit hierdie interaktiewe leerboek te put. Wys hoe die wiel draai en die prentjies aan beweeg. Lees die storie met gevoel; jou kind sal dit wil na-aap en dan begin saamlees. Wys na die woorde wanneer jy hulle sê, vra jou kind om hulle te herhaal en hardop te lees. Beweeg jou vinger van letter tot letter terwyl jy die woorde sê, om te wys daar is ’n verband tussen letters en gesproke woorde. Gebruik die speelteëls vir meer pret. Skryf die alfabet neer en help jou kind om drie (of meer) woordteëls in alfabetiese volgorde te rangskik. Sê ’n woord en laat jou kind dit uit ’n keuse van woordteëls uitwys. Vra jou kind om woordteëls te koppel aan voorwerpe in jul huis. Sê die letterklanke waarmee die woorde begin.
Win Jannie’s success story: Jannie Mouton is the big boss of PSG, one of the country’s most successful companies that started Capitec Bank and the Curro Private School. He is currently living with his wife in Stellenbosch and has a library consisting of almost every Afrikaans novel that has been published. He will be sharing his success story at the launch of his book And then they fired me, on Tuesday 15 November at Wordsworth Books in Somerset Mall at 18:00. Phone 021 8525516 or email somerset@wordsworth.co.za for more information. Two lucky DistrictMail readers can each win a copy of Jannie’s book (one in English and one in Afrikaans). Send your details (name, contact number and address) via SMS to 34421. Please indicate the language of the book you would like to win. Each SMS costs R1,50. Closing date is at midnight on Sunday 13 November.