The Forest of Hands and Teeth Carrie Ryan Gollancz 9780575090859 2009 (Aus, US) Mary’s village is surrounded by tall fences to keep out the ‘Unconsecrated’. It is the only world she has ever known, but she remembers her mother’s stories of the world before the return – tales of tall buildings, and a vast expanse [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
June 29, 2009 – 8:01 am
Disgrace JM Coetzee 9780099289524 Vintage (Aus, US) Disgrace is centred around David Lurie, a Romantic Poetry Professor at a Cape Town University, and an unapologetic lover of the firm, youthful, accommodating female form. He’s been married twice, and in the story satisfies his hunger with a prostitute, and then a student, becoming enamored with both [...]
I wanted to marry Michael Jackson
June 27, 2009 – 2:40 pm
<– Little Ange with my first love on the wall. The first short story I ever wrote, and read aloud, was called ‘Michael Jackson and the Magic Hat’. I was in Year 3. Besides the magic hat, there was mystery, romance and intrigue. My best friends in Year 3 – Genna and Rebecca – both messaged [...]
My Extraordinary Life and Death by Doug Macleod: an extract
June 26, 2009 – 8:10 am
Doug Macleod says… When I was asked to do a blog for The Centre for Youth Literature at The State Library of Victoria, I realised that my life is depressingly undramatic. I have never done anything that might endanger my life, save for living in St Kilda. How could I make my life more interesting? I did what [...]
Thoughts on 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Breath, by Tim Winton
June 22, 2009 – 8:03 am
Breath, Tim Winton, Penguin, 9780143009580 (Aus, US) Breath is my first Tim Winton. Yes, I know. He’s just not someone I had gotten to yet. And yes, I will read Cloudstreet, eventually. Last week, Breath was awarded our nation’s most prestigious literary prize – the Miles Franklin Literary Award, which is for books that in [...]
Chilled-out Sunday round-up
June 21, 2009 – 12:43 pm
It’s another Tequila sunrise… (For Ken & Teela, the Dude, Brian Wilson bartender, and especially Owen… ) * Check this out. One-eighth Vulture is an online writing mag publishing, promoting and linking writers in two of the UNESCO cities of literature – Melbourne and Edinburgh (my two favourite cities!) The site is very new at the [...]
Happy Bloomsday! Celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses
June 16, 2009 – 8:02 am
Okay, I’m only up to page 310, but I’m going to celebrate gosh darnit! Why? Because it’s rude and delicious and I’m enjoying it very much. So what is it all about? you may ask. This guy (who owns 15 copies of Ulysses) explains it better than I could right now, at this half-way through [...]
The inability to relax (an experiment in the confessional)
June 14, 2009 – 2:24 pm
It’s not often that I feel calm. I have supernovas going off in my head, squirmy things in my muscles and fingertips. I’m sore all the time because I exercise so much. It’s one of the only ways to expend the energy, wear me down, expend the effort effort effort. And I love the zing [...]
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