tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post4250811521741247035..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Christina Stead - literary hero or forgotten Australian? Helshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-22349482808636571762017-05-01T00:13:57.326+10:002017-05-01T00:13:57.326+10:00bazza
start with Dark Places of the Heart (1966),...bazza<br /><br />start with Dark Places of the Heart (1966), set in the tough North of England after WW2. It was a bit too vigorously working class and depressing for me, but Stead certainly wrote well.<br /><br />If you enjoy that, then read Letty Fox: Her Luck (1946). Stead displayed a complex woman having the usual struggles inside the patriarchy that tried to pin her down within a limited world vision. Tough to read, but once again, she wrote very well.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-75989793104822070352017-05-01T00:02:24.658+10:002017-05-01T00:02:24.658+10:00iODyne
How do smart women do these dumb things???...iODyne<br /><br />How do smart women do these dumb things??? hehe... great joke. <br /><br />Just think of Albert Einstein and his wife, Mileva Maric. They got the same excellent marks at uni in maths and physics, yet I cannot see much credit to Mileva for all the clever theories they developed together. Plus her promising career ended when she had three children. Eventually Einstein divorced her, left the family without much financial support, married his first cousin and emigrated to the USA.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-49036893413058753142017-04-30T23:45:58.356+10:002017-04-30T23:45:58.356+10:00I am embarrassed to say that I don't know her ...I am embarrassed to say that I don't know her or her books. I hope she has high standing now in Australia. Although one is not naturally attracted to 'depressing' subject matters, I find a book can be on <i>any</i> subject if well-written. Where would you recommend I start Hels?<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s rubbish Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-76330316815365925852017-04-30T18:00:15.521+10:002017-04-30T18:00:15.521+10:00oh Hels you are so sweet to care about the mad liv...oh Hels you are so sweet to care about the mad living arrangements of that old bat ODyne.<br />her 'regional town' is Hamilton which has IGA, Coles, ALDI, Woolworths and one set of traffic lights if you please. It has all those supermarkets because everyone who lives west to the SA border goes to Hamilton for medical and shopping.<br /><br />Intensely productive authors probably don't think of grocery shopping. Poor "Stead lived a life that was stormy, eccentric and brave" [which actually describes most of my shopping attempts] and I cannot imagine there was much domesticity.<br />Just been reading about Elizabeth Jane Howard who also IMO, also wasted her life on a man, propping up the over-rated IMO Kingsley Amiss. How do smart women do these dumb things?<br />Thanks once again, for adding to my knowledgeiODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394268529143990889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-63448301593672120762017-04-30T11:36:55.329+10:002017-04-30T11:36:55.329+10:00Annie
I love audio books. When the beloved and I ...Annie<br /><br />I love audio books. When the beloved and I drove to Canberra and/or Sydney each year, he selected two or three from authors he knew I loved. Best thing he ever did for me in 46 years of marriage!!<br /><br />But I need to speak to you urgently about a close food supply. You have three choices as I see it:<br />1. Grow your own vegetables, fruit, chickens, eggs, herbs etc at home.<br />2. Move to a regional town that has a few excellent shops<br />3. Get your family and friends to mail food parcels to you, each week. Even prisoners in gaol are allowed to receive food parcels.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-31156850551631877162017-04-30T11:30:35.735+10:002017-04-30T11:30:35.735+10:00Parnassus
I also realised that editors are someti...Parnassus<br /><br />I also realised that editors are sometimes so vigorous in their editing that the original writer/artist is created "anew" after death. When Joseph Mallord William Turner died, his executor John Ruskin burnt some of the artist's late work. Apparently this was because Turner had lived with the love of his life in Chelsea, without marrying her!! Ruskin was worried that erotic work with a woman, not his wife, would damage Turner's reputation.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-55610707658937636312017-04-30T11:11:44.303+10:002017-04-30T11:11:44.303+10:00Old letters? am presently wading through Patrick L...Old letters? am presently wading through Patrick Leigh 'Paddy' Fermor's. or one volume of them. however did he find time to do anything else. But I have 2 cartons of weekly letters from 2 women friends over years which I cannot bear to discard, such a chronicle they all are.<br /><br />Patrick White? we all tried to read VOSS in 1970. However, IMO one may learn as much about The Human Condition from picking up any by Elmore Leonard which cannot be put down until finished.<br />I buy audiobooks to listen while driving the 50 kms to my nearest source of food and consider it merely an extension of being 5 and pleading "read me a story".Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-33152911546585972392017-04-30T01:14:52.491+10:002017-04-30T01:14:52.491+10:00Hello again, I do indeed love old letters, both c...Hello again, I do indeed love old letters, both collected in volumes and as original source material. I recently finished the letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, which were immensely enjoyable. One caveat is that volumes of letters are often heavily edited, with the result that quite a different picture of the writer is given, especially in areas such as sexual orientation and marital fidelity! <br />--Jim<br /><br /> Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-90925151028753212052017-04-30T00:53:29.207+10:002017-04-30T00:53:29.207+10:00Parnassus
if you really do love to read volumes o...Parnassus<br /><br />if you really do love to read volumes of correspondence, you will find A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters 1928-1973 (edited by RG Geering in 1992) a very telling book. Since the letters were published years after Stead died, I believe in life she had been more open and honest in her letters than she had been in public.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-64201998289853042252017-04-30T00:45:45.983+10:002017-04-30T00:45:45.983+10:00Pat
nod...we had that discussion many times in Ye...Pat<br /><br />nod...we had that discussion many times in Years 11 and 12. If only 3 novels could be selected each year, they had to appeal to boys AND girls, students from English-speaking homes and those from other backgrounds, students who loved sciences Vs those who chose humanities etc etc. <br /><br />By the way I loved Henry Handel Richardson and Judah Waten, but I struggled to read Jack London and Charles Dickens.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-18116408078427942572017-04-29T16:12:57.842+10:002017-04-29T16:12:57.842+10:00Hello Hels, While I am always looking for new boo...Hello Hels, While I am always looking for new books and authors to read, Christina Stead does sound kind of depressing. However, that last book, of her letters, I will add to my list because I do like to read volumes of correspondence. Since you have introduced Stead as an important writer, I'll use that as my introduction.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-14877364501036197672017-04-29T11:56:36.496+10:002017-04-29T11:56:36.496+10:00In Year 12 English we read novels by Stead, Malouf...In Year 12 English we read novels by Stead, Malouf and Henry Handel Richardson. But I can't say I loved them till years later.Patnoreply@blogger.com