Books reviewed this week: Patricia Highsmith, People Who Knock On The Door; Wendy Clarke What She Saw; Louise Doughty, Appletree Yard and Nicholas Coleridge, The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums, and Selective Memoirs. Television Comments this week: following Margaret Morgan’s contribution to A Country Podcast about being a script writer on A Country Practice, I relateContinue reading “Posts week beginning 28 October”
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Week beginning 21 October
Television Comments: Searching for an Australian Identity, Robin Joyce; A Country Podcast, September 18, including interview with Margaret Morgan. Book Reviews: The Wife, Meg Wolitzer; The Sister in Law, Sue Watson; The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls. New Zealand and ACT elections. Labour/Labor successes, in New Zealand, resoundingly so. This success is being seen as aContinue reading “Week beginning 21 October”
week beginning October 14
Searching For An Australian Identity, through discussion of A Country Practice continues in Television comments. Zoom and Botox The New Daily reports that ‘Zoom calls have Australians rushing for cosmetic surgery’. Evidently the demand for cosmetic surgery has tripled during Covid lockdown as ‘we are seeing ourselves from a completely different angle for hours aContinue reading “week beginning October 14”
Posts week beginning October 9, 2020
The following books are reviewed in Book Reviews. They were published in 2014, but resonate with current events in America. For example, vigilante movements, ‘the invention of whiteness’ and the demands on women as appendages of political men, as well as those they must adopt to be successful political figures in their own right. HeathContinue reading “Posts week beginning October 9, 2020”
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