Ok, so I come home from the lengthy epoch-making journey around the corners of Australia (ok, to Victoria) and have done limited of anything other then eating, drinking and hanging with my beautiful new baby cousins; shout out to Charlie and Dustin (and I have got to admit, love the new baby smell). So no great "OMG! Tolstoy makes me wanna cry!" or "I peed myself with excitement when I read Jane Austin". However, there are quite a few things I wish to grab you attention with.
Heather; Is my cousin, is younger (a month makes a whole difference) definitively smarter and optimistic. So she has created a wonderful blog which I definitely implore you to go too. NOW! (you will find it here). We also are attempting a band. We've named it Jelly Fish in Suits, chosen from previous bedroom antics that were all legally filmed on camera.
Books;
So driving through old country towns you find incredible books. Mikey, my dad, found this incredible picture journal of the second war year by year, and I settled with a Herb book, a New Scientist (which every article alarmed me at my impending death of rickets and other possible causes) and this little gem;
FOSSIKING FOR OLD BOOKS, by Anthony Marshall.
Found at a truck stop, this is going to the head of the pile of my favourite books. It is about a second-hand bookseller and his run ins with thieves, books on eucalyptus, procedure on book fairs, nostalgia for the art of buying good quality books and much more. An exceptional book which I recommend to anyone.
(a review from the age.com here )
I also managed to score a book lent to me by my wonderful Aunty Tara. I haven't read it yet, but we have similar tastes and whatever she recommends, I love. Shown by my previous addiction to any novel by the legendary (and quite unknown) Walter Moers.
Anyway, hope your all keeping safe, and keep reading (cos I know I am :p )
Friday, 13 January 2012
Friday, 6 January 2012
Dirt Music/ Tim Winton is a Literary GENIUS! (Absonant)
WORD OF THE POST; ABSONANT Ab-SON-ant
Dichordant; Unresonable.
Appears in the Mid-16th Century and derives from Latin with "ab" meaning "away,from" and "sonant" meaning "sounding"
"The Dog rasps at the door. It knows the rules but lives in hope, although paradise awaits inside" (Dirt Music, Tim Winton)
Dirt Music, masterfully written by acclaimed Australian author Tim Winton, is an enrapturing novel that utilises prose to illustrate the significance of an intrinsic and extrinsic sense of identity that enables humanity to create holistic human connections.
It tells the story of 40 year old Georgie Jutland who has centred herself in a world of inconsequential cyber hum drum and social isolation. Trapped in a shallow marriage and in a position of domestic drudgery and alcoholism, her world is obliterated through a chance meeting with the equally damaged Luther Fox that leads them on an adventure of self-healing and a sense of belonging with each other, themselves and their natural landscape.
Tim Winton describes this novel as a love/ romance, however in my own reality, I found the relationships and character development to be quite superficial and demoralising for all involved. I find Georgie self-centred, Luther Fox unwilling to become a centre figure and the ending unbelievable.
Nonetheless, his use of description is quite unprecedented. He manages to depict the raw power of the wild Australian outback without diminishing its unfathomable beauty. Quite frankly, it is worth reading, if not only for the exceptional detail and imagery it provides the audience with.
In other news;
(1) WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR!
Ah, yes. 2012. Another year in supposably heralding the end of the world and the end of my HSC. If we survive that long.
I'm quite ready for this year to be truthful. My new years resolution was to be better at everything. Sounds quite arrogant and vague but that is what it was. What were your New Years Resolutions?
(2) Kindle
The Kindle is awesome. I got one for Christmas and while I miss books, it is so much cheaper and easier! Do get one!
(3) Future Posts
I plan on posting after getting back from Victoria and seeing all my family. I still have to comment on Paul Auster's "New York Trilogy" and Steig Larson's "Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest". Did you hear the English Version is coming out? I do plan on seeing it but English Versions always ruin originals.
(4) Current Reading
I am currently reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. To put it lightly IT IS AMAZING! However surprisingly it is taking for ever to read. And with school starting soon, it maybe a while before I finish it.
Anyways, Have a great Holiday (for those who are) and keep reading
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