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  • Great Character Moments in Film #2: BOURNE IDENTITY

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    (With SPOILERS) BOURNE IDENTITY has so much to recommend it: it’s an action movie, an amnesia story (gosh, but I love amnesia stories) set in some of the more stunning parts of Europe, & it’s the movie where Matt Damon discovered he could be an action hero. Or, as Bourne has often been described, ‘the…

  • Great Character Moments in Film #1: SIXTEEN BLOCKS

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    (With SPOILERS) I just love the turn in SIXTEEN BLOCKS, the moment Bruce Willis goes from drunk deadbeat cop to hero. The entire movie spins on that point and even the camera spins, giving us Willis’s grim, slack face and his suddenly sharp & sober eyes. And he looks around, at the new world he’s…

  • 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…

  • 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge

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    I’m taking the Australian Women Writers Challenge in 2012. Whatever your preference, whether you’re a fan of one genre or a devoted eclectic, the 2012 Australian Women Writers Book Reading & Reviewing Challenge invites you to celebrate a year encountering the best of Australian women’s writing. I’m a Dabbler (according to the rules: more than…

  • Blog: the Goodreads giveaway

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    Man, I love giveaways – especially giveaways from Goodreads. My book, BAD POWER (which is now, apparently, a Real Book) is now available as a giveaway. Enter to win. And if you don’t win, you can still buy it direct from the publisher at Twelfth Planet Press. In other news, the non-Amazon version of CLOCKWORK…

  • Blog: In my absence, much happened

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    I’m back! WFC was great, Peter Beagle was absolutely charming, & the Mexican food was exceptional – especially at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where I was lucky enough to spend an evening with editor Danel Olson & some of the writers from TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GOTHIC. AND bunch of stuff happened back home in my absence. F’instance:…