![]() ![]() Kaleidoscope Song is without a shadow of a doubt one of my favourite books this year. That’s a lot of stories but one author to manage to make me loose myself so completely in a story. Fox Benwell has written two of them, I’ve reviewed over 750. I can actually count the number of books that have made me truly cry one a single hand. When you then add Neo, Tale, Cap, Zee, Jed, Janet and Jeso each one not a character but a person – you’ve lost yourself. Just like the line 'Every color and every hue, is represented by me and you.' It speaks out that we, people in different countries can be able to be friends. It’s an amazing feet and one that I don’t find often. For me,the KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD song tells us that even though we are not the same in some things but there are things that ties us for who we are today and what we are. That the rhythm you feel and hear isn’t there, the sounds and smells you’ve convinced yourself are around you are just conjured up by the words on the page. (I tried to note the quotes and before I reached the halfway mark the book was just overflowing with sticky-notes.) As they add up to paragraphs and pages you become so enthralled in this world that you can easily forget it’s not real. ![]() Nearly every sentence feels like it could stand as a beautiful quote on its own. How many different ways can you say excellent, amazing, breath-taking, shattering (in the best possible way), phenomenal, incredible and unbelievably wonderful?įox Benwell has a magic way with words. Review: I’ve always found that writing reviews for books that you passionately love is harder. Previously reviewed: The Last Leaves Falling How did I get the book? Received from publisher in exchange for an honest review. But Tale and music are underneath her skin, and try as she might, she can’t stop thinking about them. It’s written everywhere – in childhood games, and playground questions, in the textbooks, in her parents’ faces. Neo knows that she’s supposed to go to school and get a real job and find a nice young boy to settle down with. She sneaks out to see them, and she falls in love, with music, and the night, but also with a girl: Tale has a voice like coffee poured into a bright steel mug, and she commands the stage. When Umzi Radio broadcasts live in a nearby bar Neo can’t resist. A life in radio is all she’s ever wanted. But everybody has a voice, and everybody sings…įifteen year old Neo loves music, it punctuates her life and shapes the way she views the world. Do you hear the song and dance of it? The chorus of Khayelitsha life? Every voice is different, its pitch and tone and intonation as distinct as the words we choose and how we wrap our mouths around them.
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