Published in the Sunday Times
Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham (HarperCollins)
***
Book fling
If you don’t like the TV series Girls or its creator and star Lena Dunham, you will hate this book. But I love Lena Dunham: she’s witty, she can write and her work is a little bit wild. Whether she’s writing about losing her virginity (it felt “less like a stab wound and more like a headache”) or being naked on screen (“Getting naked feels better some days than others”), Dunham almost has no limits. Sometimes it feels like desperate attention-seeking but mostly it’s incredible to read. It won’t appease her haters, but the fans will lap it up.
- Pearl Boshomane @Pearlulla
Kill Baxter
Charlie Human (Umuzi)
****
Book Monster
Back home after saving the world from an apocalypse brought on by a massive octopus, 16-year-old Baxter Zevcenko finds himself attending Pornography Anonymous sessions instead of being hailed a hero. In Charlie Human’s dark yet very funny follow up to last year’s Apocalypse Now Now, Baxter finally comes to grips with his heritage: part boer mystic, part shapeshifting crow. He navigates his way around a school bully while saving his fellow students from Muti-Man and an army of goblins, then hits the road the road before the unrest among the Hidden gets out of hand.
- Jan Willem Bornman @jwbornman19
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- Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
EAN: 9780812994995
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EAN: 9781415203798
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