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Letters from Suburbia – Feb 2017
So it’s time to spread the news. ALL OF THE NEWS. Ok, there’s not that much. As you may or may not know, I’m not one for planning ahead. Commitments beyond a few months stress and intimidate me. Which is why this year my plan is… not to plan! Well not plan much anyway. Yes,…
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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography – Edmund Gordon
Date Completed: Early January 2017 Page Length: 544 Goodreads Rather than begin this review with a quote, I will simply say, read the whole damn thing. My mum gave me Edmund Gordon’s biography of Angela Carter fro Christmas last year and read it almost non stop until completing it in early January. I was slowed down considerably…
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Flash Fiction: Sad Women
Every Thursday afternoon there is a group, who meets, of sad women. They have hollow cheeks, eyebrows that rise at the centre, large wide eyes and the corners of their mouths point to their toes. They meet in the large room at the community centre. They don’t gossip and make tea like the knitters or…
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The Sadder Sex: The Gendering of Grief in Hamlet
The experience of pain, sadness and depression in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is complicated and multifaceted. As the goal of this essay is not to diagnose the characters of Hamlet, pain, sadness and depression along with other terms, such as grief and mourning, will be used interchangeably to refer to the various states from which the characters…
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My Year in Review 2016
So 2016 is over and done with, let’s all breathe out a collective sigh of relief. When your year begins with an enormous personal loss followed by a series of dramatic changes (moving in with my boyfriend then moving interstate to a tiny rural town) you know things are going to be a struggle. Mat…
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Poor Poetry – Experimentation
Early days followers of this blog may remember a few posts I did featuring my shaky attempts at the poetic form called ‘Poor Poetry‘. Well, I’ve been at it again. First off the band wagon is a poem I call ‘I Don’t Write Poetry’ I Don’t Write Poetry I don’t write poetry Because I don’t know how.…
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Red Shoes – Carmel Bird
Date Completed: November 12 2016 Page Length: 333 Goodreads This book pissed me off. When I realised I had reached the end, that that was it, no more to be revealed or resolved I furious. I hadn’t been so mad finishing a book since I read Atonement by Ian McEwan. Once the initial rage wore…
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Books I Want to Read
I’m a huge fan of lists and I usually have a long and unwieldy ‘To Be Read’ list of books. Lately, however, I’ve attempted to cut back on the length of my lists to achievable, less overwhelming lengths. Here is the video of the three books currently on my TBR list. Since filming this…
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Moving from the Country
For those who follow me closely, if indeed you do exist. You know that I was moving… again. I do this often and am, in fact, in my seventh location in 5 years. If you don’t know, I’m also on Youtube now and instead of writing in depth about the moving process, I thought I’d…