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The Reading Room

The Reading Room

Written by: Solid Gold Podcasts | Solid Gold Podcasts #BeHeard
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Can we entice you into our Reading Room?

This is the place for lovers of language and literature, those of us who believe that reading is essential, as we seek to rise above the ordinary.

And the Reading room contains a host of extraordinary people. Leading lights of the written word - authors, literary critics, columnists and ideas people - will tantalise your minds with their wordplay, while discussing the ideas and worldviews that form our wonderful literary milieu. Come step into a world of magic, the place of undiscovered treasures, a room of reading...

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  • #026 Sex, Drums and Rock 'n' Roll.... In Africa | Danny de Wet

    #026 Sex, Drums and Rock 'n' Roll.... In Africa | Danny de Wet
    Oct 21 2022
    A guide to the best decade evah - The 80s!

    The 80s were a time of hope and frustration for teens and 20-somethings in South Africa, but there was a whole lot of boogying going on.

    Drummer (and wannabe frontman!) of such iconic SA bands, such as eVoid, Petit Cheval and Wonderboom, Danny de Wet takes us back on a memory trip through the fogs of time, to an era that not only those that lived through it will appreciate, but as a handy manual for the youngers who are locked into electronics and social media on just how the youth used to live their lives.

    For this (mostly) unadulterated look at one of the most prolific times in SA Rock history, #ListenHere for a bit of background - and then get the book to find out more.
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    47 mins
  • #025 Listening out for the Birdies | Adam Riley

    #025 Listening out for the Birdies | Adam Riley
    Sep 17 2022
    “Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there's a certain amount of expectation we'll see something, maybe even a species we've never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don't see anything remarkable - and sometimes that happens - we come home filled with light anyway.”
    ― Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir

    And that's what it's about!

    Whether you be brand new to the birdwatching game, or a long-time, avid spotter, as one writer has it - “Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world– a fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life. They will do this for you even if you don't know their names– though such knowledge is a thoughtful gesture. ”

    We find out more about Adam Riley's new book, commissioned by Helm Wildlife Guides, on Birds of South Africa, the portable concise must-have that will give you an entry into 'twitching', or a quick reference if you're travelling light. And more about how birds are so essential to not only the world at large but to the space surrounding you.
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    32 mins
  • #024 Kim Nicola Stephens | Time to Let Go! (But Hold The Line...)

    #024 Kim Nicola Stephens | Time to Let Go! (But Hold The Line...)
    Aug 16 2022
    Social Media Musings and Going Viral.

    While people all over South Africa were hunkered down in their homes baking banana bread, coming up with ways to find gin, bemoaning the fact that they couldn't go for a walk, while finding new ways to navigate this strange new walk of Life, one Facebooker kept a host of other flounderers mentally intact with her pithy, insightful posts, not just about her journey, but on how well others were (or were not) faring in this weird world.

    From this, comes Hold The Line, a compilation of many of the posts from Kim Nicola Stephens that had us in hysterics with a bit of backstory to them - not a guide on how to weather a pandemic, not a self-help book, and not an autobiography - this is a book to remind you of no matter how different we may seem, so many of us go through the same things, a reminder that even in deepest darkest days, we're not alone. And there's always a story to be retold, a lesson to be learnt, a life to be lived. Fully.
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    31 mins
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