When Gregory Hays' translation of Meditations came out in 2002, it was a bit of a landmark event in the classics world. There had not been a new translation of Meditations since 1969. When I started researching for this post, there was love and admiration for the translations by Richard Graves (1792), George Long (1862), … Continue reading Meditations | Marcus Aurelius
My Week: NSW has now enjoyed a week and a half of 'learning-to-live-with-Covid'. After 107 days of lockdown, we were all looking forward to some relaxation of the restrictions.Our new Premier may have overestimated this mood though.Many people I know, including me, are feeling very cautious and careful about this phase of opening up.Even B21 … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #44
There are lots of ways to start a story, but this begins with a chicken. One of the many strings to Risbridger's bow, is food writer. She has written a children's book, edited a poetry anthology as well as numerous other journalistic efforts, but food writing seems to be the things she keeps going back … Continue reading Midnight Chicken | Ella Risbridger #GBRnonfiction
Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash Last week I read Sally Rooney's new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You? (review to come). Her book title was inspired by the 2018 Liverpool Biennial statement, which came from a line in an 1819 composition by Franz Schubert (D677), which he based on stanza from the 1788 Friedrich Schiller poem, The Gods of Greece (Die … Continue reading The Gods of Greece | Friedrich von Schiller #poem
It's time to spin again with The Classics Club. Details on how to play are here. On Sunday the 17th October, a random number will be drawn. Match the number to the book on your list, then read said book before the 12th December. November is AusReading Month, for spin #28 I am therefore going … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #28
Once again, another Club read has snuck up on me! Although for 1976, part of the problem was the lack of contenders. Pre-blog I had read: All Things Wise and Wonderful | James HerriotChildren of Dune (Book 3) | Frank HerbertTintin and the Picaros (Tintin, #23) | Hergé, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (Translator), Michael Turner (Translator) All enjoyable reads … Continue reading The Bicentennial Man | Isaac Asimov #1976Club
Announcing Rumer Godden Reading Week! The 10th December is Rumer Godden's birthday. To celebrate, I will be hosting a Rumer Godden reading week from Saturday 4th December to Sunday 12th December 2021. Margaret Rumer Godden was born in 1907 in Sussex, but spent most of her childhood moving between India and boarding school back in … Continue reading Rumer Godden Reading Week #comingsoon
Lady Wroth with archlute. Unknown artist.From the collection of Viscount De L'Isle. I recently read Mrs March by Virginia Feito. It was a terrific read, full of curiosities and strange behaviours. One of which came from the author herself - a second epigraph inserted towards the end to preface the final two chapters of the … Continue reading Crowne of Sonnets Dedicated to Love | Mary Wroth #poem
George Marsh had written another book. Virginia Feito was raised in Madrid and Paris, and studied English and drama at Queen Mary University of London. Mrs Marsh is her debut novel. She lives in Madrid. A movie starring Elizabeth Moss is on the cards. These are the things one quickly learns, when you Duck, Duck, … Continue reading Mrs March: A Novel | Virginia Feito #ESPfiction
"Well done." Perveen Mistry spoke aloud as she slid the signed contracts into envelopes. The Bombay Prince is the third book in Sujata Massey's Perveen Mistry Murder Mystery series. Although the Australian cover declares the series as a murder mystery, Allen & Unwin classify it on their website under historical fiction (you can also read … Continue reading The Bombay Prince | Sujata Massey #INDcosycrime
Two Stories was the first publication produced by the Hogarth Press (named after the Woolf's house in Richmond). One hundred and fifty copies were produced. They consisted of 32 pages, bound together using three different papers that the Woolf's had to hand - a plain yellow paper, a red and white geometric limp linen and a blue … Continue reading Two Stories | Leonard & Virginia Woolf #1917
It has been a long winter of Covid lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne. The regional areas of both NSW and Victoria have moved in and out of lockdown as their numbers fluctuated, but Sydney and Melbourne, and now Canberra, have borne the brunt of the Delta variant. Writing a Covid Chronicle update has been the … Continue reading The Covid Chronicles #13
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