August 2011
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Currently Reading: One Day by David Nicholls
A friend told me to read this a few months ago then reminded me about it the other day and so, waiting in Melbourne airport for my flight back to Adelaide with less than fifty pages of Bluegrass Symphony to see me through the next few hours, I picked up a copy.
So far it’s been exactly what I’ve been feeling like: well-written brain candy. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out...
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In Review: Bluegrass Symphony by Lisa L. Hannett
The Story: There’s multiple; twelve to be exact. They’re all set in and around Alabaska county, a place somewhere like the American mid-west through the looking glass, where reality twists and leather-winged godmothers, transfiguring temptresses and all manner of strange creatures creep across the prairies. Some of the stories, like ‘Fur and Feathers,’ are full of...
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“The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
– Jonathan Franzen, “The Reader in Exile”, How to Be Alone: Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002) pp. 164-178, 178.
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“It would be a pity if we overlooked the possibilities of education as a means of...”
– T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
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