I love a good Best Of list. There’s nothing more fun than reading through a list of the best novels or films of all time and then debating the order with a friend. Over the years there have been quite a few of these Best Novels lists, most notably Modern Library’s list in 1998 which [...]
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The best novels of all time? I don’t think so!
Posted in Blogging, Books, Fiction, Reading, tagged Culture, life, literature, Thoughts, writing on July 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
May/June Reading List
Posted in Books, Reading, Thoughts, tagged Culture, Fantasy, Fiction, literature, reading list on May 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The books I plan to read over the next few months; a couple I’ve just bought, the others I’ve had lying around. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has to be the best title I’ve heard in a long time.
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First Impressions: King’s latest. Not [...]
Now this is how to accept an award
Posted in Blogging, Books, Fiction, Non Fiction, Reading, Thoughts, tagged , Cormac McCarthy, Doris Lessing, Humour, literature, Nobel Prize on October 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a question for you. You’ve just been told that you’ve won one of the most prestigious awards in the world. How do you react? Are you overwhelmed? Are you gracious? Is it one of the most amazing moments in your life? Or is your first thought, “Oh Christ…”?
That was Doris [...]
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A Writer’s Life- Books of the 00sIt’s hard to believe it’s almost the end of another decade, isn’t it? The 00s have gone by so quickly and so much has happened in the last ten years. From tsunamis to bushfires; Afghanistan to Iraq; 9/11 to Katrina; the millennium to the GFC. I was still in high school in 1999. It feels [...]
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