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Christmas Presents! |
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Strange Nervous Laughter brings you this season's most delightful gift!
Do you hate shopping? Wish someone else would do the choosing, buying and wrapping for you? Then here's the perfect prezzie:
- An autographed copy of Strange Nervous Laughter, with a personalized message to the lucky recipient.
- An exclusive Meld feather brooch.
- Hand-wrapped in fabric and ribbon.
- And posted to your door!
- All for only R140! (a mere R20 more than the book alone costs in store).
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Strange Nervous Laughter and Have2Have (www.have2have.co.za) have teamed up again to bring you another great competition:
This time you can win a copy of Bridget McNulty's novel,
Strange Nervous Laughter,
by taking part in an online treasure hunt. An image of Strange Nervous Laughter
has been hidden in the over 40 000 products on Have2Have, and every
second day a clue will be released on Bridget McNulty's blog (www.blog.bridgetmcnulty.com) that will lead to the image. The first person to find it wins a copy of the book.
There are 8 clues all together.
Ready?
CLUE #1:
One split up, one join up.
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Of Love, Literature and Beauty Pageants |
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Here's Peter Machen's review of Strange Nervous Laughter, from the Weekend Witness (3rd November 2007):
Of Love, Literature and Beauty Pageants
Peter Machen speaks to young Durban author Bridget McNulty, who has just launched her debut novel Strange Nervous Laughter.
Bridget McNulty is telling me about the time she entered the Miss South Africa pageant.
McNulty,
who grew up in Durban but is currently following a writing career in
Cape Town, is bright and beautiful, but distinctly not in the
80's-glamour-model kind of way that continues to hold sway over the
Miss South Africa aesthetic and beauty pageants in general. Of this she
is very aware – and probably quite grateful – but nevertheless, at the
age of 23 she entered the competition thinking of all the good she
could do, if she won. She did this with all seriousness, so convinced
that she might be able to turn the whole thing around and conquer
vapidity with compassion and intelligence, that she even refused to
recruit a stylist.
When she finally took part in the first round of the
competition, her beauty pageant ingenuousness was instantly shattered.
The contestants didn't get to say a word. The judges just looked at
them, and that was it. It was the archetypal cattle show.
While the anecdote reeks of misguided innocence, a more
accurate reading would be that McNulty is possessed of an astounding
sense of self-belief. It's not that she thought that she was the most
beautiful girl in South Africa. It's more that she thought she could
change the rules. But some things are written in stone.
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Strange Nervous Laughter in the news! |
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Strange Nervous Laughter has been making a few media appearances of late:
The Witness, Wednesday 31st October 2007
Book review by Janet van Eeden
www.witness.co.za/default.asp?myAction=detail&myRef=
56172&myCat=film
The Mail and Guardian, Friday 2nd November 2007
Book review
The Weekend Witness, Saturday 3rd November 2007
Review and interview by Peter Machen
Women 24 Book Club, the month of November 2007
www.women24.com/Women24/BooksAstrology/BookClub/
0,,1-12-96,00.html
Check back soon for more exciting updates!
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The winner of The Kissing Competition is ... |
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The kissing Johnson daughters!
The winner of The Kissing Competition has been announced, and here it is. The kissing Johnson daughters have won themselves a brand-new iPod Nano 4GB with video, sponsored by Have2Have (
www.have2have.co.za)
After much deliberation, our impartial judges chose them as the winner, from an array of excellent submissions.
Many thanks to all who contributed.
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