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a year of reading (in which our heroine discovers romance novels and steampunk…)
Reading was a big escape for me this year, and I was really surprised to find I enjoy contemporary romance novels, not to mention supernatural romance. Jennifer Crusie was a huge find for me this year. The subject matter that really drew me to these books or kept me reading is in brackets in the above list. Taking note of what I liked about each ( Read more... ) -
fuzzy science fiction
Can I crowdsource some social science fiction reads ( Read more... ) -
It's like moving.... but...
My landlord is tearing all the ceilings in my house down, installing fireproofing and sound proofing (yay!), and new fancy downlights (yay!), and then putting new ceilings in.
This is all well and good, but means that I have to pack up my living room, bedroom and kitchen so that they can shower the whole place with plaster and dust.
So I was ( Read more... ) -
To a child born in a marvelous year...
My favourite NZ poet, Allen Curnow, would have turned 100 today. Russel Brown wrote a really nice tribute to him here
The last two lines of this poem haunt me, too, but I think of it as much as being about a new person in a new part of the world. Curnow is pretty much the most antipodean poet we have. Everything is backing away.
The Skeleton of ( Read more... ) -
perfect gluttony
what's the point of being home alone after a night working at the library if you can't make yourself some late night chocolate sauce to eat with your delicious homemade ice cream? -
here be dragons
#readit2011 online twitter book/reading discussion tonight 8.00pm (AEST). Come talk about the experience of reading Fantasy with us #specfic
If you have a twitter account, or even if you don't - but like reading Fantasy and want to discuss your reading with people (it will take two seconds to set up an account and you can follow this discussion via ( Read more... ) -
listen with your cells...
Being this fatigued and tired and absently listening to the rain on the roof for some reason makes me think of being in New Zealand
Who am I kidding? Everything at the moment is making me think about being in New Zealand! -
Living Here
My friend Eleanor kindly emailed me Cilla McQueen's beautiful poem 'Living Here', which I couldn't find on the internet and don't have in any of my NZ poetry anthologies.
( In honour of going home in a few days... I can feel it is close now ) -
comfort
I am stuck in the eat chocolate, drink tea, eat chocolate, drink tea cycle.
It makes me miss living at Marian Street.
When I am at home now I basically never use my living room. I prefer to conduct all business... *all* business... on my bed.
It's like I'm living in a studio apartment again. What's that about? -
fly away
2.30am cold shower and wardrobe change - now wearing shortie pyjama bottoms with swallows on them.
Not sleeping any time soon.