Posts by Jackie Clark
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I only went to Sydney once - over 30 years ago. I didn't so much like the City, but I loved the outskirts. We went to the Blue Mountains which I thought were magnificent, even at 16. And I really really loved the hotel at the top where you had a panoramic view of the whole thing. Just lovely.
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Islander,
Oh, I love those photos. And I too felt like waving at you. (Tears in eyes, seeing you looking okay and surrounded by all those books. Your natural habitat.And what a fantastic fruit salad plant you have.) I'm with webweaver. I like hearing snippets about your lives there. And also? What very neat houses everyone has. Spotless!
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Jolisa,
I so loved Barbara Else and Sue McCauley. Lovely lovely writers. In fact most of the NZ writers I have loved have been women. Funny that. No, Jolisa, I gave Amis another try, and couldn't be bothered. So back he went to the library today to be replaced by some memoir, and a couple of novels. (Douglas Kennedy etc so very very not literary).
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to ChrisW,
Buccaneer never left her berth unless Dad was at the wheel. The nickname Capt Araldite didn't come out of nowhere, you know!
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I love Invercargill, Tamsin. I have no idea why it seems to be so maligned. On our family trips around the South Island, we often went that far south, and something about the place always seemed so wonderful to me.
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to philipmatthews,
Oh, phew. Thanks Philip. That was my natural inclination. I'm just waiting till the library opens at lunchtime to collect the latest couple of Armistead Maupin books and a couple of memoirs. Will return it forthwith!
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Tamsin6,
I'm completely in agreement with you, Tamsin. I do tend to steer away from clever or "worthy" fiction. As a matter of fact, at the moment I have Martin Amis' newest - The Pregnant Widow - sitting by my bed and I am avoiding it completely. I'll give it a go, I'm just not sure why I requested it from the library.
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Because I have such a dire memory, I've had to resort to the Library "My Reading History" function to see what, if any, NZ novels I've read in the last 5 years. Paul Shannon's Davey Darling, which I loved, loved, loved. And a bit further back, about 4 years ago, I discovered Deborah Challinor. And that appears to be it for NZ fiction, lately. Because my mum buys every new book ever published - including all the NZ ones that get goodish reviews - I have them at my fingertips. But haven't accessed her collection for a number of years. I have read alot of NZ fiction writers' works but not for some time - and it took talking to you to realise it. Something else to think about. Boo.
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Chris, my Dad's great grandparents' built a house called Ngaroma (now Clark House, belonging to the Air Force) in Hobsonville. The Upper Waitemata was at the bottom of their garden and Dad went sailing from there. So westie sailors both, eh?
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to ChrisW,
How did I miss this? Good vibrations coming to you from up here. It's a shit, I know.