Jenifer Nim
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I’ve got a head full of stories and a hard drive full of photos; I thought it was time to start putting them somewhere.
I haven’t written anything for many, many years. Please be kind! 🙏
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Can You Drive a Ford Fiesta Through a Desert?. Top Story - May 2024.
I’m flying down the B1 highway from Windhoek to Keetmanshoop with a map and a boot full of camping gear. I’m excited for the first stop of my Namibian road trip: the Quiver Tree Forest. I spot the sign and turn onto the C17, off the tarmac and onto the gravel. I’ll be there soon; it’s only ten miles or so. I am unprepared for what comes next. The car slides and slips across the road. I am not fully in control anymore. I slow to a crawl. The car judders and shudders, the noise deafening, the vibrations rattling the teeth in my skull. It takes me around an hour to drive the ten miles. I arrive at the campsite relieved to be in one piece, even if it feels like all my bones have been shaken slightly out of place. I will later learn that this is what happens when the gravel road becomes “corrugated”, and that the roads authority goes round once a week to “grade” them. Seems I arrived about 6 days after the grader had last been round.
By Jenifer Nim2 years ago in Wander
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
I still remember the day I got the dark circles around my eyes. I don’t know how it came into my possession, but I had a torch. One night when my dad said it was time to close my latest Goosebumps and turn the light off, I did as he said. Then, listening carefully until I was sure he was at the bottom of the stairs, I picked up my book again, pulled the torch out from under my pillow and carried on reading.
By Jenifer Nim3 years ago in BookClub
Serial: A Cultural Phenomenon
The very first “water-cooler” podcast, Serial single-handedly launched both the true crime and podcasting crazes. We the listener were right there with expert storyteller Koenig on her rollercoaster quest to unravel a murder mystery. Was he really guilty? Or were we about to bust open a miscarriage of justice together?
By Jenifer Nim3 years ago in Critique
A Little Life: A Big Feeling
Why was it so popular?! Unrealistic, melodramatic, depressing, unrelentingly bleak, overly long – 800 pages of emotional torture-porn. What did we learn from it all? Friendship good, abuse bad? What a revelation! The author desperately tried to make me feel something, and I did: anger. I f***ing hate this book.
By Jenifer Nim3 years ago in Critique
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Top Story - August 2023.
Sunny name: dark show. This searing societal satire hilariously skewers issues big and small, from gun control and abortion rights to misunderstanding emojis and being shushed. Huge egos, short tempers, and hysterical situations make it an excellent sitcom; sharp, snappy writing and finger-on-the-pulse humour make it the longest-running in history.
By Jenifer Nim3 years ago in Critique
The Spinster Life
The funny thing is, I doubt my life would be very different at all if I were born in the past. In another era, another place, I think I’d be living my life almost exactly the same as I am now. I’m currently a teacher, writer, and spinster. Yes, at 32 and single, I’m a modern-day old maid with no plans to change that any time soon, to the disgust of men all over the internet.
By Jenifer Nim3 years ago in History
On Second Thought...
If I were born in a different historical time period, what would my life be like? It’s a question I’ve pondered many times. It’s fun to imagine myself in a previous era, meeting famous figures from the past, witnessing monumental, world-changing events, living out historical fantasies. But really, if I were to be born in another era and live an even somewhat enjoyable life, I would first have to change everything about myself: my personality, parents, class background, gender.
By Jenifer Nim3 years ago in History
A Girl's Life (1800): The Game
Can’t choose a profession? Allow fate to choose for you. We’re going to play a game: all you need is a coin and a thumb. You’re about to be born an average, working-class girl in Great Britain in the year 1800. Let’s find out how life would have gone for you.
By Jenifer Nim3 years ago in History
