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Something a little different. A review from 30 years ago that I found as I cleaned out a filing cabinet this morning, written for a course: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
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Our internet is back already (for now?) An oversimplified version is this. The company that looks after phone lines fixed a fault down the line that caused the outage. The company that wants to sell us the new NBN said ADSL had been cut. So, we contracted for NBN connection. Now we have to hope getting the NBN on Wednesday goes smoothly.
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For anyone who doesn't read our About/Blog page, I'm out of action all week - no internet. Only have an iPad and a hotspot connection to do the bare minimum. So I'm not ignoring you if you send a message.
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Reading Project was updated.
3 years ago
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pikemalarkey
3 years ago
Something exciting is brewing up in South Korea. Not long ago there was a wave of articles about Korean feminism - the backlash against the beauty industry (I think they are no.1 in the world for the number of cosmetic plastic surgeries), the women who choose not to have relationships with men at all (despite being heterosexual)...I see this as part of that wave. Very interested to see what comes next.
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Reading Project was updated.
3 years ago
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pikemalarkey
3 years ago
'the narrative equivalent of thrashing frantically with a spade in a deep hole'. Well said!
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readingproject
3 years ago
And I worried about that one. The author did a plot set-up which was unnecessary to the plot (I thought) and then had to be clumsily explained away late in the novel to no purpose. But it was pretty good on the whole.
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pikemalarkey
3 years ago
I haven't read the book so cannot confirm or deny, it but it was a fun turn of phrase.
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Hope it goes smoothly! ;-)