tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post1631526353234066137..comments2023-10-08T05:00:12.761-07:00Comments on the godroach speaks or "up and moved to canada": what i'm readinggumtreefid farmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10837860962210074213noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-72320539663019924592008-03-24T18:50:00.000-07:002008-03-24T18:50:00.000-07:00you could try stealing "the waves" from limewire, ...you could try stealing "the waves" from limewire, or, alternatively, buying it from an online audiobook place. itunes? i got a nice version of "the woman in white" somewhere. it's been edited with a hacksaw, but is still good. <BR/><BR/>i have read "to the lighthouse", come to mention it. did i teach it? hmmm. <BR/><BR/>have you read lion boy yet? you should get that. and i just read the prequel to anne of green gables which is a bit meh, but interesting. and am marking essays on kit pearson's "awake and dreaming", which is a nice kidlit about vancouver and victoria. <BR/><BR/>lovegumtreefid farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10837860962210074213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-65788312107624906662008-03-22T16:16:00.000-07:002008-03-22T16:16:00.000-07:00no longer a student at any institution, so only us...no longer a student at any institution, so only use SMB library, which Susan and I are stocking up with the books we like - i think we are the only ones who order- no, but we sure are ordering a lot<BR/><BR/>tried yesterday to put "the waves" CDs onto iPod, but it would only copy the first one - copyright protection, i suppose<BR/><BR/>i thought you'd read "to the lighthouse'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-76290010793053393862008-03-12T17:59:00.000-07:002008-03-12T17:59:00.000-07:00nimmersatt - ta for your suggetions. will write th...nimmersatt - ta for your suggetions. will write them down and check with the VPL. <BR/><BR/>that's kinda creepy about duncan. it would be fun to read the book knowing the city, though. partly why i enjoy phryne fisher so much. especially the one about ballarat.<BR/><BR/>ps. my parachute has polka-dots.gumtreefid farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10837860962210074213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-43826261140549037292008-03-06T14:30:00.000-08:002008-03-06T14:30:00.000-08:00Hi gorgeous,I just reread the nightwatch too, and ...Hi gorgeous,<BR/>I just reread the nightwatch too, and it was much more fun the second time around, partly for the "ooh, ooh, she's in Westbourne Grove, that's just around the corner!" moments, but also I appreciated the story and the style and the characters more knowing where it was all going, (or had come from.).<BR/><BR/>Now that We are Everywhere book sounds great, and I'm kind of a bit excited cos I know one or two people who were at the Woomera action. Is this the lefty version of getting excited about knowing someone on Big Brother. If so, I apologise for my 'common' celebrity workship.<BR/><BR/>HF has just started rereading nightwatch this minute, and is looking at the map on the wall. It turns out that Duncan wound up living in walking distance of where the prison was!<BR/><BR/>I originally started this comment to say that you must read, if you haven't already, "The Shock Doctrine, the Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Woolf. It's a phenomenally researched, amazingly coherent argument that various crises since the 1970s have been deliberately manipulated to impose extreme free market capitalism on countries reeling from the shock of whichever crisis it happened to be. She shows who did this, why, whose idea it was, how it was developed as a deliberate strategy, and by whom, from Chile post coup, to South Africa post Apartheid to Iraq in the last few years, and, and, and.<BR/><BR/>If I had time, that book would change my life. <BR/><BR/>(I'm too busy reading What Colour is your Parachute and working through the exercises in it to work out my career change path in a self obsessed manner to change my life through something so outwardly focussed as a political awakening.)<BR/><BR/>Kisses,<BR/>NNimmersatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746182090167461801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-88293323918584234272008-03-06T09:44:00.000-08:002008-03-06T09:44:00.000-08:00thanks, itchy!ah, the bad vampire romances. has sh...thanks, itchy!<BR/><BR/>ah, the bad vampire romances. has she made you read the one about the gay angel yet? <BR/><BR/>is the flickr community a useful source of inspriration as well?gumtreefid farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10837860962210074213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-5553064047113562002008-03-06T09:42:00.000-08:002008-03-06T09:42:00.000-08:00ooo, shiny. let me know when you manage to read an...ooo, shiny. let me know when you manage to read any of them. <BR/><BR/>do you use any other libraries?<BR/><BR/>well, some of my reading is about that too. the anne faderman, for instance. you should read that, grotty. you'd like it. <BR/><BR/>am i old enough for "to the lighthouse," though? i'm not doing any more diaries. too off-putting.gumtreefid farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10837860962210074213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-33172590719324981862008-03-05T15:29:00.000-08:002008-03-05T15:29:00.000-08:00i am reading - The History of Love- bad vampire re...i am reading <BR/><BR/>- The History of Love<BR/>- bad vampire related romance novels that tine procures.<BR/>- about to start We Need to Talk About Kevin.<BR/><BR/>and flicking through my various photography books for ideas.<BR/><BR/>not terribly exciting, but there you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-61497712068405954432008-03-04T17:18:00.000-08:002008-03-04T17:18:00.000-08:00psi'm still not old enough for Mrs Dallowayps<BR/><BR/>i'm still not old enough for Mrs DallowayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30687480.post-89919691424788350432008-03-03T17:10:00.000-08:002008-03-03T17:10:00.000-08:00i have just read Right Book, Right Time: 500 Great...i have just read Right Book, Right Time: 500 Great Reads for Teenagers by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen so i have a list of about 40 books to read<BR/><BR/>i've checked the SMB library for the first 20, and NOT ONE is there! I must start ordering ...<BR/><BR/>the New York Review of Books has arrived and the Aust Book Review - I am reading ABOUT reading, not acutally reading readingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com