I can’t imagine what my life would have been like without My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch (Graeme Base) open on my lap at four years old, tasting the different worlds at the top of The Magic Faraway Tree at seven, devouring the ‘unreal’ Paul Jennings at eight, crying in Two Weeks With the Queen with [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Melbourne Writers Festival 2008 Diary – Part 1
August 25, 2008 – 6:53 pm
Friday August 22 Sometimes Augusten Burroughs’ memory stretches deep and wide, a vivid pool. It is due in part to an element of autism in his bloodline. This is how he remembers looking through the saltine cracker at his mother at one-and-a-half, as described in A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father. [...]
I Dream of Magda by Stefan Laszczuk
August 17, 2008 – 12:45 pm
Allen & Unwin, August 2008, 9781741755015 (Aus, US/Kindle) A version of this review was first published in the July 2008 issue of BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine (c) 2008 Thorpe-Bowker (a division of RR Bowker LLC). George’s life consists of working in a bowling alley, staring wistfully at the tree where he and his ex shared their first [...]
An Extraordinary Life – Interview with Jim Sharman on Blood & Tinsel
August 9, 2008 – 2:19 pm
Blood & Tinsel, Jim Sharman, August 2008, HB (Australia) Miegunyah Press, 9780522853773 (Aus, US) This interview was first published in the June 2008 issue of BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine (c) 2008 Thorpe-Bowker (a division of RR Bowker LLC). A doctor said to your parents when you were a child that you have the makings of a philosopher. [...]
Blood & Tinsel: A Memoir by Jim Sharman
August 3, 2008 – 6:13 pm
9780522853773, Miegunyah Press, August, HB (Aus, US) A version of this review was first published in the June 2008 issue of BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine (c) 2008 Thorpe-Bowker (a division of RR Bowker LLC). Jim Sharman relays the story of his life rhythmically, like a play or film. Childhood memories of boxing sideshows are cut between [...]
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Melbourne Writers Festival 2008 Diary – Part 2
All book links are to Readings Bookstore, supporter of Indigenous Literacy Day and official MWF bookstore. Thursday August 28 Let me begin by explaining how your humble narrator’s face became projected on a wall. As you may well know, my favourite book of 2007 is The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon. I finally got to [...]