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It was March. Trees were displaying a fuzz of green [...] The insatiable force that put new leaves into the world was at work in me, too. My body felt insolent, squally, ready to sing.
Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters
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The sky was a blatant, Australian blue – it cared nothing for us.
Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters
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Scary Monsters
By Michelle De Kretser.
Design by Carmen R. Balit.
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Call out to my FRev Tumblr friends
Has anyone read a novel by Michelle de Kretser called The Rose Grower? It's been recommended to me as excellent but I'm always wary of novel recommendations, given how many people seem to think highly of APoGS. If you've read The Rose Grower and have thoughts, please feel free to comment below or DM me... Thank you!
Kindly accept a doodle of Robespierre for your trouble.
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"It was March. Trees were displaying a fuzz of green [...] The insatiable force that put new leaves into the world was at work in me, too. My body felt insolent, squally, ready to sing."
– Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters
More of Artio's spring/summer dresses designs ✨🌷 this turned out to be more pinkish than the previous one, but it also pleased me so I decided to keep it.
Artio has some sort of priestess' role as the bridge of her Ogham & the spiritual realm with the physical & earthly world so her holding a scepter to represent power & sovereignty seems very appropriate.
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Reflecting on Where She’s Going
Image credit: Portrait of the novelist Michelle de Kretser by W.H. Chong. https://www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/how-to-paint-a-novelist-by-w-h-chong
She thinks of Questions of Travel,caught in her green box of reflection.More of the gold palms of a Sydney Beachor again to Sri Lanka to see her mother?Her work, just like her past, is a neat stackof books, in earth and ocean tones.She must turn…
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I really loved this one. I finished it just before I got to hear Michelle de Kretser speak at Melbourne Writers Festival. Truly a well-deserved win of the Miles Franklin. The Life to Come is saturated in satire, full of sharp wit. It’s hilarious and uncomfortable all at once. Each character is complex, often contradictory. Reading this book is a bit like looking through a kaleidoscope. We see each of the characters view Pippa (the central character) in different, often unlikable, ways. de Kretser really examines how power shifts depending on situation/race/class/migration status. This is a fantastic book about perception and power, and I’m definitely going to seek out the rest of her work soon.
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There was something brutal about being flung into a foreign language—something thrilling, too. In those early weeks, I sometimes stood aside from myself, watching my progress as if following a character in a novel. Asking the way or opening a bank account, I'd listen to myself reproducing sentences from grammar books. I relished the strangeness of it as I relished the square-ruled notebook I bought and the chalky ring deposited in saucepans by the hard water. Everything was proof that I was living a different life.
Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters
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So... walking past the new New Fiction table and all in a row I find bird after bird, until the one with “birds” in the title. (Okay, feathers, but no birds.)
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my 2020 books (final count)
i know there’s a week left but i’m doing it now bc idgaf
2020 reading goal: 70 books
final count: 84 books
why be happy when you could be normal - jeanette winterson
educated - tara westover
astragal - albertine sarrazin
the importance of music to girls - lavinia greenlaw
a room of one’s own - virginia woolf
ariel - sylvia plath
find me - andre aciman
men explain things to me - rebecca solnit
pennies for hitler - jackie french
south and west: from a notebook - joan didion
girl, interrupted - susanna kaysen
junky - william s. burroughs
chelsea girls - eileen myles
lighthousekeeping - jeanette winterson
new york city in 1979 - kathy acker
the colour purple - alice walker
teaching my mother how to give birth - warsan shire
diving into the wreck - adrienne rich
pamper me to hell and back - hera lindsay bird
the hours - michael cunningham
the road - cormac mccarthy
the vagina monologues - eve ensler
the white album - joan didion
slouching towards bethlehem - joan didion
lunch poems - frank o’hara
a thousand mornings - mary oliver
draft no. 4: on the writing process - john mcphee
peter pan - j.m. barrie
can everyone please calm down? - mae martin
mr salary - sally rooney
breakfast at tiffany’s - truman capote
to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
woolgathering - patti smith
the coral sea - patti smith
just kids - patti smith
little women - louisa may alcott
the secret history - donna tartt
the boy who followed his father into auschwitz - jeremy dronfield
the place on dalhousie - melina marchetta
harry potter and the philosopher’s stone - j.k. rowling
the cement garden - ian mcewan
paula - isabel allende
the book of dirt - bram presser
my purple scented novel - ian mcewan
the agonist - shastra deo
the truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off! - gloria steinem
art objects: essays on ecstasy and effrontery - jeanette winterson
the trauma cleaner - sarah krasnostein
mrs dalloway - virginia woolf
jacob’s room - virginia woolf
the collected short stories - virginia woolf
remarkably jane: notable quotations on jane austen - jennifer adams
the death of noah glass - gail jones
click here for what we do - pam brown
stories of perth - alice grundy
too much lip - melissa lucashenko
the erratics - vicki laveau-harvie
on photography - susan sontag
no friend but the mountains: writing from manus prison - behrouz boochani
harry potter and the chamber of secrets - j.k. rowling
courage calls to courage everywhere - jeanette winterson
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban - j.k. rowling
boy swallows universe - trent dalton
harry potter and the goblet of fire - j.k. rowling
the waves - virginia woolf
the lost child - caryl phillips
harry potter and the order of the phoenix - j.k. rowling
howl, kaddish and other poems - allen ginsberg
harry potter and the half-blood prince - j.k. rowling
between the acts - virginia woolf
the life to come - michelle de kretser
the tales of beedle the bard - j.k. rowling
harry potter and the deathly hallows - j.k. rowling
rebecca - daphne du maurier
books v cigarettes - george orwell
honeybee - craig silvey
an unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness - kay redfield jamison
the tattooist of auschwitz - heather morris
the graveyard book - neil gaiman
cilka’s journey - heather morris
the dark room - rachel seiffert
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid
currently reading:
sense and sensibility - jane austen
when the moon is low - nadia hashimi
selected poems - christina rosetti
#pretty proud of this one#fi's ramblings#books#literature#reading list#goodreads#joan didion#jeanette winterson#patti smith#virginia woolf#classic literature#literatureedit#bookedit
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Tagged by @besanii
Rules: Tag 9 people you'd like to get to know better*
Top 3 Ships: the doctor & the master (Doctor Who), ineffable husbands (Good Omens), and any ship from The Untamed but obviously wangxian are the definition of love and nikudons and bloody-bee-tea are single-handedly (or I suppose double-handedly) winning me over to the mingxicheng train honestly.
Also, this has made me realise that I have a very clear type with ships which is apparently “can you even call it love if you haven’t been pining after each other and/or sworn mortal enemies for AT LEAST two human lives?”. My fourth ship would be Eleanor/Chidi (plus all the gang from The Good Place honestly, the platonic and the romantic) so like, I really do have a niche I guess? Turns out I am also getting to know myself better here. huh.
Lipstick or Chapstick: Chapstick (more specifically, SPF 50+ Blistex but only the not-flavoured not-tinted one)
Last song listened to: Teach Me About Dying by Holy Holy
Last film watched: The Secret Garden
Currently reading: The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser and Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe as well as pretty much any and all The Untamed fanfic I can get my grubby hands on.
Currently watching: Doctor Who, The Good Place, and The Untamed (just, constantly rewatching The Untamed honestly. but I’m also still crying over the ending of the good place when I think about it too long so it counts).
Tagging: *okay I am very bad at this because I get anxious about putting people on the spot but if you want to do this please do! and tag me!
#besanii#tumblr will not let me tag#so hopefully this will work#thanks for the tag!#us aussies sticking together#theuntamednarration#tag!
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The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser - REVIEW and EXCERPT
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2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award
2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award
The link below is to an article reporting on the winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award – Michelle de Kretser, for ‘The Life to Come.’
For more visit:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/26/miles-franklin-2018-michelle-de-kretser-wins-60000-award-for-second-time
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2018 in books
Reread
Don’t bother
Yes, bother
*Nobel Winner*
Every time you see Margaret Atwood, do a shot.
Fiction
We Need to Talk About Kevin- Lionel Shriver
Questions of Travel- Michelle de Kretser
Fingersmith- Sarah Waters
The Dog Stars- Peter Heller
Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood
MaddAdam- Margaret Atwood
Moral Disorder- Margaret Atwood
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
Authority- Jeff VanderMeer
The Strange Bird- Jeff VanderMeer
The River- Rumer Godden
Always Coming Home- Ursula K. Le Guin
Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Figure in the Carpet- Henry James
The Glass-Blowers- Daphne du Maurier
Ancillary Justice- Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword- Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy- Ann Leckie
Moon Tiger- Penelope Lively
C.- Tom McCarthy
Black Girl, White Girl- Joyce Carol Oates
Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys
Snap- Belinda Bauer
Stay With Me- Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
The Essex Serpent- Sarah Perry
Short Stories
The Beijing of Possibilities: Stories - Jonathan Tel
Till September Petronella - Jean Rhys
Wilderness Tips: Short Stories- Margaret Atwood
Delicate, Edible Birds- Lauren Groff
Attrib and other stories- Eley Williams
Murder in the Dark- Margaret Atwood
What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky- Lesley Nneka Arimah
Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales- ed. Angela Carter
Non-Fiction
To A Mountain in Tibet- Colin Thubron
Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness- Peter Godfrey-Smith
In Translation
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memorias de mis putas tristes)-Gabriel García Márquez [Colombian Spanish]
The Elephant Vanishes ( Zō no shōmetsu )- Haruki Murakami [Japanese]
Without Blood (Senza sangue) - Alessandro Baricco [Italian]
Lust, Caution (Sik Gaai) - Eileen Chang [Cantonese]
The Vegetarian (Chaesikjuuija) - Han Kang [Korean]
The Flea Palace (Bit Palas) - Elif Shafak [Turkish]
The Castle of Crossed Destinies ( Il castello dei destini incrociati) - Italo Calvino [Italian]
Three Japanese Short Stories - Akutagawa and Others [Japanese]
Eva Luna- Isabel Allende [Chilean Spanish]
From the Mouth of the Whale (Rökkurbýsnir)- Sjón [Icelandic]
Bonjour Tristesse- Françoise Sagan [French]
Fo’ Da Youth (technically; young is a state of mind)
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage- Phillip Pullman
The Book with No Pictures- BJ Novak
Stuck- Oliver Jeffers
Poetry
Poems, New and Collected- Wisława Szymborska* [trans from Polish]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Saga, Vol 1. - Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir- Malik Sajad
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Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great
Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great
Too numerous to list here; I’ll mention those who remain relatively (and unfairly) obscure due to their remoteness from the metropolitan networks of publishing and publicity. Among novelists and short-story writers: Michelle de Kretser, Anuradha Roy, Gail Jones, Ivan Vladislavic and Vinod Kumar Shukla. I have benefited for decades now from the work of the poet, translator and anthologist Arvind…
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There's no joining past to present — I saw that then. My old, whole self was gone for good.
Michelle de Kretser, Scary Monsters
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