TokisoM Writes

Eighty Days Red by Vina Jackson is as cheesy as cheesy gets. The cover image, legs in grey stockings, gives the impression that what’s inside is chapter after chapter of hot 'read-on-your-own' moments between the characters. Instead this felt like something out of Bold and The Beautiful – with a bit more drama. Erotica is not my usual kind of read but when a friend bought me Eighty Days Red; I thought this would be a great intro to the genre. Yes, I didn’t read any of the Shades of Grey. Eighty Days is a trilogy, a series that follows the love story of Summer and Dominik. The other two are Eighty Days Yellow and Eighty Days Blue.You can read the third one and you won’t feel like you’ve missed out on the drama from the past. Simply put; they are a couple who have an on and off relationship and in the third book they have broken up but end up in each other’s arms. The story is depressingly predictable. I finished the book because for some odd reason I thought it would ...

Random question, I know, but it is a thought that I've had for a while now. When Facebook changed its interface and introduced the timeline – I was able to check out my Facebook presence from the day I signed up!  It was rather creepy looking at my life on display like that – from falling in love, heart-break, lonely days, angry times and drunken status updates. All I know is I deleted a lot of posts and have since limited how much of myself I put on Facebook [a year break from the social network platform also helped]. Anyway back to “Are you what you tweet”. Twitter is a bit of different ball game – with 140 characters – it has proved to be an easier platform to share snippets of thought. I'm way too lazy to check out my tweets from when I started [I'm at 17 000 plus tweets].  But I can tell you now that I've started playing it very safe on the network. Most recent stats report that there are 5.5 Million active South African users. Of that 5.5 Million a...