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Pixie Lit: My 2012 reading year
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012. My 2012 reading year. Two of the best books penned by women I read during 2012 were Blue Nights. By Joan Didion and I Was Told There’d Be Cake. By Sloane Crosley. Both had been recommended to me by a number of sources, and I finally got my hands on them after the Melbourne International Writers Festival. Reading Blue Nights. Was a revelation: how have I lived. 8211; particularly as a non-fiction writer – without having read Didion’s work before? Want to be her? David Malouf) &...
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Pixie Lit: The Tri-review, part one: "The God Of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Thursday, May 24, 2012. The Tri-review, part one: "The God Of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. For the past few months I’ve been on a book-buying spree. I justified it by telling myself that I’m supporting writers, independent Australian booksellers and. As I read the. The God of Small Things. May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Di...
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Pixie Lit: Million Dollar Tegan
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Sunday, May 20, 2012. Wana know the best way to get back into the habit of blogging? Get together with your ex-boyfriend and take him to see a comedian you haven't heard of! The ex-bf (now current) and I chose Tegan Higginbotham at the Melbourne Internash Comedy festival last month cos she was young and a girl (but not in a weird way.we just wanted to support up-and-coming female comedians.promise). I didn't, though, obviously - but am making up for that lost time now). This attitude allowed her to creat...
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Pixie Lit: Reading JK...
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Friday, November 2, 2012. My amazo BF gave me a Kindle for my birthday and I immediately downloaded JK Rowling's new novel. This worked out for me because a) it was cheaper than buying a hard copy and b) you can't tell how long it is in electronic form (normally I can't be bothered reading books over 400 pages.this one was about 500). But it didn't feel like 500 pages. The Casual. Was very easy to read, with the same ambling, evenly toned and often comic writing style as the Harry Potter. And describe th...
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Pixie Lit: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011. I JUST SUBMITTED MY MASTERS THESIS THREE DAYS AGO. After dealing with my severe post traumatic stress disorder which involved lots of crying and wine and sleeping and Buffy, I've pretty much been acting like this (just substitute Tom Jones for Taylor Swift, and I'm not even joking). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I write stuff and sometimes it gets published. Mostly I watch TV and read horror novels and westerns though. View my complete profile. Tom Conoboy's Writing Blog.
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Pixie Lit: May 2012
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Saturday, May 26, 2012. The Tri-Review, part two: "The Sisters Brothers" by Patrick de Witt. Here is the second part of my new "read and review" tactic, designed to slow down my book-buying habit. I bought this book recently after being sucked in by an ad in the pages of the. If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor, he might have concocted a story like Patrick de Witt's bloody, darkly funny western The Sisters Brothers. 8221; said The Los Angeles Times. Is the story of Eli and Charlie Sisters, two hired ...
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Pixie Lit: Language, Art and the Golden Mean
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Language, Art and the Golden Mean. Last Friday night, my friend Flyck and I went to the Kaleidoscope gallery. In Geelong to attend Laura Alice. S debut exhibition opening, "The Golden Mean." I've written about Laura's street art before at Killings. Itching for an essay or a blurb to provide me an interpretation. Flyck, though, who got me to this place (she has an amazing mind, and this crazy ability to think through complex things really deeply and. Once I can afford some of Laura...
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Pixie Lit: December 2012
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012. My 2012 reading year. Two of the best books penned by women I read during 2012 were Blue Nights. By Joan Didion and I Was Told There’d Be Cake. By Sloane Crosley. Both had been recommended to me by a number of sources, and I finally got my hands on them after the Melbourne International Writers Festival. Reading Blue Nights. Was a revelation: how have I lived. 8211; particularly as a non-fiction writer – without having read Didion’s work before? Want to be her? David Malouf) &...
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Pixie Lit: June 2011
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Thursday, June 30, 2011. Evidence that I actually am in Scotland. Check out yours truly on the cover of the Edinburgh Uni undergrad prospectus even though I am a postgrad! I got 20 quid for this so who's complaining. If you look carefully you'll see I'm reading a business finance textbook in Chinese. Whoever said a literature degree didn't teach practical skills! Monday, June 13, 2011. You can read my rant about BEYONCE. On the Kill Your Darlings Journal blog RIGHT HERE! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Pixie Lit: June 2012
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Sunday, June 10, 2012. The Tri-Review, part three: "Unbearable Lightness" by Portia de Rossi. When I told friends I was reading Portia de Rossi's autobiography, they all laughed at me. Partly, because its title is almost the same as. Milan Kundera's masterpiece,. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But mostly, because autobiographies written by young film and TV stars are usually badly written and fairly uninteresting. And really, I too expected. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain. All over it...
