Posts by Jackie Clark
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1) I've just finished The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson. I've just started A Box Of Darkness - by Sally Ryder Brady.
2)As a child, I fancied the idea of reading under the covers, but only really did it at boarding school after lights-out. And I have no recollection of what I read.
3)Books make me cry all the time. Everything makes me cry all the time. I often finish a book, with tears in my eyes, and clutch it to my chest, and say "Beautiful!" The last one I did that with was Half a Life - by Darin Strauss
4) 3 books for a year? Are you kidding me? Do box sets count as one book? Oh well, it will have to be the first three Harry Potter books then. Because once I've finished one, I have to read it again to even remember what happened. That will keep my gerbil memory going for a year.
5) I would most definitely be giving one to Brian from the Tales of the City series. Like, not the early years of Brian, but the later years. Because Maryanne is such a little cow, and it would get me nearer to Anna Madrigal.
6) My self help book would be very short because my best advice to myself, or anyone, is that the answers are within us.
7) All students should study ARD Fairburn or Sam Hunt for exquisite evocative poetry that makes the heart sing. Armistead Maupin should also be required reading, because he writes ripping yarns that talk to our humanity. Plays, I haven't seen too many, so I'll give that one a miss.
8) Parties in novels are tricky ones, so I'd stick with going to one thrown by Edmund White because it would be bound to be interesting, and fucked up.
9)**Are you listening now?**
10) I would love to play Anna Madrigal. I was born to be the magical, kindly landlady with a wonderful, painful secret, whose life everybody revolves around, and without whom they cannot do without.
11) I wouldn't be giving books to lovers. That isn't what lovers are for. IMHO.
12) There are no literary deal breakers for me. Oh hang on, maybe books extolling the virtues of Muldoon. I can't even begin to say how very repellent I found him.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Sacha,
I can't tell you how much Key reminds me of Muldoon. He was a nasty piece of work, but at least he was honest about it.
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Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Russell Brown,
To be fair, apart from videos, no I haven't. But I can think of none of the Flying Nun music that I ever connected to. It's just one of those things.
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Mum's off to see Metropolis with the NZSO tonight, Craig. She had no idea what it was all about, so thanks to you, I was able to enlighten her. Say hello if you see her!
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Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Biobbs,
I would argue that there is dancing and then there is ...........dancing. But then, we all like and what we like, and I never took to Flying Nun and her progeny.
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And if we're talking about music that never lets you down, here's my go-to.
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Oh good, another discussion about bands I have never got. Keep your drear. If you can't bop around frenetically to it, I'm not interested.
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Okay, for ages, I have listened to people whine about how there's nothing on TV. I didn't believe. My PVR was full to the brim - full, I tell you! And I am one of those anal souls that sits down with the Listener and highlights what I want to watch/record for the following week. This morning, like every Friday morning, I did just that. It's official. There really is NOTHING on TV at the moment, aside from Downton Abbey, and couple of reality shows that I record to watch later. Now I am not a fussy viewer, so if I can't find much I like? We. Are. Doomed.
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Returning to odd campaign signs: Spotted, on the corner of Idlewild Ave, and Bader Dr.
Conservative - if it's good enough for REMUERA, it's good enough for Mangere. (The italics are theirs, not mine). FFS.
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Wow. That's brilliant.