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Book Camel: November 2009
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About books and travel. Saturday, November 21, 2009. I don't have a lot of money to spend on new books these days. But I do like to keep up with new writing and the ideas going round. My solution is to spend money on a few subscriptions to magazines and journals that keep me in the loop. Add to this a glimpse at The Age. Book pages on Saturdays (minimal info there, alas), a free. Monthly magazine and blessed Radio National (especially the splendid Book Show. I've subscribed to Meanjin. Which has been giv...
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Book Camel: Winter Reading
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About books and travel. Tuesday, October 11, 2011. This is the list of books I read over winter:. Nine Gates - Entering the Mind of Poetry. Essays by Jane Hirshfield. Guantanamo, My Journey. In the Company of Rilke. Tuesday, October 11, 2011. With sunny thoughts,. Tuesday, 11 October, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Theatre of the Athletes of Regard : new events well received. Still Life With Cat. Tigers in Literature and Popular Culture. The Garden of Self Defence.
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Book Camel: January 2010
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About books and travel. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. In with the new. Before January passes completely from view I want to move the Book Camel blog out onto the track once more. When the English author, Graham Greene, was having his long-standing love affair with Catherine Walston in the 1940s and 50s, he gave her a notebook diary each year in which he handwrote a quotation for every day of the year. Greene was obviously a very romantic fellow. Throwing up the echo of thunder:. Then his vigorous rhymes:.
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Book Camel: March 2011
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About books and travel. Sunday, March 6, 2011. What I read this summer. Sheila Fitzpatrick, My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood. Melbourne University Press, 2010, paperback. pp. 260.) Borrowed from Bendigo Library. Christine Wallace, Greer, Untamed Shrew. Jacqueline Kent, An Exacting Heart -The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin. Viking, 2008. Borrowed from the Bendigo Library.). Cassandra Pybus, The Devil and James McAuley. And became professor of English at the University of Tasmania....
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Book Camel: February 2012
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About books and travel. Monday, February 6, 2012. On the bedside table. I have a big stack of books on the bedside table, some read some unread. I'm sorting them out today. This is the list:. 1847) by Charlotte Bronte. This book has been on the table since mid last year when I finished reading it, inspired by seeing the new film. What a wonderful novel it is. 2011) by the American, Ann Patchett. Boy can she spin a yarn! Also borrowed from the library:. 1972), a novel by Thea Astley and Minitudes. Meanwhi...
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Book Camel: October 2011
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About books and travel. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. So far we have looked at three films that have their origins in novels or stories. The Servant. A 1963 film directed by Joseph Losey, and starring Dirk Bogarde, was based on a story of the same name by the British writer, Robin Maugham. Babette's Feast. 1987) came from a story by the Danish-born Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), and the Hitchcock film, Rebecca. Is based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. Tuesday...
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Book Camel: Books into films
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About books and travel. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. So far we have looked at three films that have their origins in novels or stories. The Servant. A 1963 film directed by Joseph Losey, and starring Dirk Bogarde, was based on a story of the same name by the British writer, Robin Maugham. Babette's Feast. 1987) came from a story by the Danish-born Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), and the Hitchcock film, Rebecca. Is based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. What a ...
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Book Camel: What I read this summer
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About books and travel. Sunday, March 6, 2011. What I read this summer. Sheila Fitzpatrick, My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood. Melbourne University Press, 2010, paperback. pp. 260.) Borrowed from Bendigo Library. Christine Wallace, Greer, Untamed Shrew. Jacqueline Kent, An Exacting Heart -The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin. Viking, 2008. Borrowed from the Bendigo Library.). Cassandra Pybus, The Devil and James McAuley. And became professor of English at the University of Tasmania....
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Book Camel: November 2010
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About books and travel. Wednesday, November 10, 2010. In his poem, A Prayer for my Daughter, written in 1919, Yeats writes about the conditions he wants for his daughter as she grows and the kind of woman he hopes she will become. He wants her to have a solid foundation so she might cultivate qualities of mind he approves: kindness, courtesy, merriment, innocence and beauty. These are to be cultivated in contrast to women of opinionated mind. Who risk everything for an old bellows full of angry wind.
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