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Doing Church 70s Style
I came across this book while weeding the library’s collection today. It retains its place, but not so much for its cover.
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My writing blog- The Cruelty of the Game: David Ireland, ‘The Great Unknown’Writing is a cruel game. Whatever I can say about the years of unreward, about a promising start terminated, others, more established, have had crueller fates. In The Weekend Australian Magazine on 7 April 2012 was the story of David Ireland, three-time winner of the Miles Franklin in the 1970s and now ‘The Great Unknown’. [...]
- Reader’s Digest Condensed Books: ‘as difficult to dispose of as bins of radioactive waste’One of the few things my library’s booksale won’t accept is Reader’s Digest Condensed Books. And yet they always turn up at the bottom of boxes amidst more worthy books; or a poor elderly person has lugged them from the other side of the river, and so we receive delivery of whole boxes of them. [...]
- My Top 10 Films of 2011Unlike my antiquated novel list, these are films which were actually released in 2011. 10. Contagion –an effective, chilling account of the spread of a pandemic. Marks off for Jude Law’s annoying character. 9. I Love You Philip Morris – the most surprising film I saw all year; an offbeat, strange comedy about a man [...]
- The 10 Novels I Liked Best in 2011The ten novels I liked best in 2011, one of which was actually published in 2011. 10. The Summer That Never Was / Peter Robinson Once or twice a year, I want to be comforted by crime fiction, by a detective who sets things right, and importantly, Robinson writes page-turning, well-plotted fiction about Inspector Banks [...]
- Reading Bleak HouseAll my reading friends will disown me, because I am enamored with ebooks. I love being able to read Dickens in bed – for free – without breaking my wrist. I love being able to flick between it and Eminent Victorians without changing books. I am lazy. I’m amazed by the sophistication of Dicken’s narrative [...]
- The Cruelty of the Game: David Ireland, ‘The Great Unknown’
