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Year: 2012

  • Via The Hairpin on the book ‘Are Women People?’

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    Brilliant! Via Matt Cheney’s post at The Mumpsimus, which links to Lilli Loofbourow’s post at The Hairpin on the book ARE WOMEN PEOPLE? by Alice Duer Miller comes, eventually, this poem:   Women (With rather insincere apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling.) I went to ask my governmentif they would set me free,They gave a pardoned crook a…

  • The Bad Power/Goodreads competition…

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    … closes today! There are 688 entrants, but only two winners. Will YOU be one of those winners? Not if you haven’t entered, you won’t. C’mon, be part of history, win a book!

  • In which I provide a random general update

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    So I took a few months off to do some writing. I’ve done this before, but I don’t think I’ve ever *needed* to do this as much as I needed to do it right now, this year. I’d spent a lot of time in recent years feeling inauthentic, shall we say. It’s good for my…

  • Blog: Finishing my first book for the AWWC2012

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    I’m cross-posting my first goodreads review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012. I read Helen Garner’s THE SPARE ROOM in a couple of days, having left it on my ‘to read’ list for far too long. And, look, I admit up-front that I admired it more than I liked it: “A brutal, honest look…

  • Blog: AWWC 2012, Item #1

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    Yesterday was Day One of the Australian Women Writers Challenge for 2012 – & the day I commenced with Helen Garner’s THE SPARE ROOM. I’ve been meaning to read this for a long while: I loved THE CHILDREN’S BACK in the eighties as a gritty & honest look at motherhood & relationships, but then I…