Sarah Smit

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” Eleanor Roosevelt I always like to set the tone for the review with a quote. I could have picked Don’t Stand So Close...

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” Carl Jung Joe Thorne receives an email. “I know what happened to your sister. It’s happening again.”  Up to his...

“And though she be but little, she is fierce.” - Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream As I’ve been blogging and Instagramming, I’ve received a few requests from authors asking me to read and review their...

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway Widely read in schools in Africa and beyond, over twenty million copies have been sold. Achebe’s book is touted as...

“A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.” Eleanor Roosevelt Opening with a punch, this book starts with Sarah crouched in the footwell...

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them - Bob Dylan What would you do if every 60 minutes or so, your memory erased itself and all you could remember were snatches...

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” -- William Butler Yeats 20 August 2016 is the day everything changed. The day...

“There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always...

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius I've often thought that I have the attention span of a goldfish but usually, when it comes to...

"Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? Bianca: I think you can in Europe" - 10 Things I Hate About You It's exciting...