Category Archives: reading

>The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Victor

> Apostrophe Man has hit the poster for this the third and final episode of the television turned cinema trilogy based on Stieg Larsson’s best selling Millenium book trilogy. The poster has it as “hornet’s” but I’ll stick with “hornets’” … Continue reading →

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>Tomorrow, When The War Began

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Victor

> I must confess that I was not familiar with the name John Marsden let alone his books which publicity in connection with ‘Tomorrow, When The War Began’ informs me have been best sellers and so I have no idea whether … Continue reading →

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>’When the Autumn weather, turns leaves to flame’*

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Victor

> *(‘September Song’ by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson) Whilst waiting for my car to undergo it’s ‘one hour express service’ this morning – which actually took two hours – I kept looking up from the book I was reading, … Continue reading →

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>Art imitates my life

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Victor

>My current read is David Leavitt’s book Martin Bauman written in 2000. The fictional Bauman is a young gay man struggling both to be a published author and to come out of the closet. The novel contains a scene in … Continue reading →

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>God of Speed

Posted on September 21, 2008 by Victor

>My current read is Luke Davies’ God of Speed. Davies is the author of Candy which became a movie starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish. I attended a conversation with Davies at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May and was … Continue reading →

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>Chocolate

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Victor

>I took advantage of yesterday’s rainy ‘stay at home’ type day to file a lot of paperwork that had been piling up for months. I feel virtuous now, not to mention that the apartment is back to its minimalist look … Continue reading →

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>A Wolf at the Table

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Victor

>This is my current read, although the copy I purchased at Angus and Robertson in Bondi Junction has a completely different cover of a young boy. I have read the earlier memoirs by Augusten Burroughs and found them interesting and … Continue reading →

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>Light reading

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Victor

>I’m currently reading Everyone Worth Knowing which as you can see is written by the author of The Devil Wears Prada. How gay! The theme is similar to the Prada work and the book is a proving an easy bedside … Continue reading →

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