Posts by Grace Dalley
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I love actual facts. Thanks Keith!
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I have a serious need to frame that cartoon, put it on my wall, and point emphatically at it when people ask what I do.
Lucy, that's what you do? Awesome :-)
Can we have some love for the non-pretty people in boring, windowless rooms here?
<3 <3 <3
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I love that story, Jolisa! It makes me like Summer Morn even more than I do already.
It bothers me that realistic female genitals are still so unacceptable in art. Is there something wrong with them? I can think of a lot of examples of male genitalia in historical art, and none of female, unless you go all the way back to palaeolithic statuary.
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Obviously there are nutters everywhere...but doesn't the Guardian have an editor? Don't they have some kind of "must not be totally hatstand" requirement?
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Oh and I forgot to say, thanks heaps Jolisa for all your reviews and recommendations! And everyone here on PAS who is recommending books, I will be excitedly seeking out some of these titles....
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One of my favourite books this year has been When will there be good news? by Kate Atkinson. It follows on from her previous novels Case Histories and One Good Turn but it's quite different to both. Although they're novels about crime, they're not exactly crime novels... One Good Turn is hysterically funny while also being sad; Case Histories is like a whodunit in which finding out who did it doesn't help at all; When will there be good news? is like a thriller, but it also had me laughing out loud and weeping buckets, sometimes simultaneously.
These are the sort of books that make me want to clap when I get to the end.
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Carol: glad you're 4-armed, I've always thought that would come in handy, arf arf ;-)
webweaver: I read The Little Stranger after my sister abandoned her copy at my house. She didn't exactly give it to me...she showed it to me and told me it was scary and grim and then seemed disinclined to take it away with her!
It's one of those books I'm quite glad to have read, though. As a portrait of disintegrating gentry and middle-class aspiration it's second-to-none.
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Jolisa, and anyone else planning to read The Little Stranger be warned, it's really scary! It's completely different in tone to her other novels, and I unwisely sat up late a few nights trying in vain to get to a less-terrifying bit, and consequently went to bed all wide-eyed and jumpy! I finished it on a sunny afternoon, and the book made me feel shivery despite the sunshine!
In hindsight I could see how cleverly Sarah Waters had put the whole thing together, and how one could see it as allegory, and so on, but I can't say I enjoyed reading it.
The book I'm reading at the moment actually came out last year, but I'd never seen it: CUP's Land very fertile: Banks Peninsula in poetry and prose. It's an ecletic mix of different types of writing, both fiction and non-fiction, but they go surprisingly well together.
Having said that, my favourite single thing so far is Fiona Farrell's poem Falling in Love on the Way Home which is also here. :-D
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Wait...is the reading not available online?? The interview was great, but I demand to hear the dubious Glaswegiain accents!!
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<wipes eyes after watching Emma's QI clip>
Oh go on, Paul, you HAVE to tell us now!!