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For the reading list
A visit to the local secondhand bookstore over the holidays wasn’t enough (bagging Malouf, Lessing, Armanno, Lewycka, Modjeska, Murakami, Astley); we fell into the Lifeline Bookfest on the weekend. I think we came home with about 100 books. The joy was in stumbling into titles that have always been on the “to-read” list: Silent Spring. […]
Gatsby
The official trailer has been released, and it has not damped my fears. I am afraid, more than slightly afraid. I do hope I am wrong. But, if Fitzgerald does suffer death by Baz, at least there remains a clear memory of when the Elevator Repair Service brought Gatz to Brisbane a few years ago, […]
Quandry
I’m all in a dither over this latest review. Already, it’s taken much longer to write than usual. It has been written, deleted, rewritten a few times. The book was poor. I disliked it on a number of levels: starting with the macro, I think the genre of “memoir” can do without half-life scratches from […]