i wrote to my mum the other day that in person i can barely open my mouth most of the time but give me a textual medium and you can't shut me up. well. case in point. this came up on my dash:
My literature classes didn’t help. My professors stressed the importance of approaching a text with detachment, with a critical gaze rather than an emotional ( Read more... )

Like Little White Secrets, this is a book I rescued from Mum's to-get-rid-of pile in March. I gave it two stars at Goodreads, which indicates "it was ok". That's really the best I can say of it.

The novel's main problem, I think, is that the author has apparently never been given the advice, "show, don't tell". Book of Lost Threads is 350 pages of ( Read more... )

my first review for the Australian Women Writers' Website 2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge. \o/

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The first book I read for the challenge, and indeed the first book I've read this year, is The Children by Charlotte Wood. It's one of those books that made me write notes as I was reading, as opposed to a book that sucks me in and then spits me ( Read more... )

at about 7.30 this evening i lay down to nap because i was feeling so unwell. now it is midnight fifteen and i'm awake ( Read more... )

i've begun to think of writing as a sort of building project. first comes the base and the frame: bare, not very pretty, and completely underwhelming. "how on earth will this ever become a house?" one wonders in despair. but then on the second go-round you add things like walls, floors, plumbing. it looks a little better now, a little less like ( Read more... )

MAH LIT-FU, I STILL HAS IT; or, I Finally Got My First Paper Of The Semester Back With Grade And It Is Good ( Read more... )