T.D. Whittle
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Born
Daylesford, Australia
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everything, everything
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August 2011
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13 Ways: Illustrated Stories
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2013
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The Infinite Loop: a novella of spaceships, time warps and free pie
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2016
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Stranger Places: A Pie Town Novel
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T.D. Whittle wants to read 24 books in the 2023 Reading Challenge
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"This is one of Junichiro Tanizaki's major novels covering a family of women in early 20th C Japan. It is beautifully written with extremely well fleshed out characters and an entrancing plot. It is probably my favourite Tanizaki book."
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In the sleeve of my flower-viewing robe, That I may remember the spring. Five years ago, we planted two trees in our enclosed garden, a gingko biloba, which bright yellow unique fan-shaped leaves beguile in autumn , and" Read more of this review » |
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"The yearly peregrination to the natural spectacle of the cherry blossoming in Kyoto is a millenary tradition in Japan. The symbolism attached to that ritual renders the transience of beauty. The constant collision between the explosion of exuberant v"
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“Ian has been in all sorts of scrapes with all sorts of authorities over the years, and the only two that have ever truly rattled him are the Russian Import Tax Investigation Authority and the Coopers Chase Parking Committee.”
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Just another unhappy family, but this one has Isobel in it. At the beginning of I for Isobel, we are introduced to a mistreated child living with a mostly-passive and nearly-invisible father, a favoured older sister who is usually indifferent to her, ...more |
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“If I start quoting myself, someone shoot me. My people are from Texas, so they'd know what to do.”
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“She liked to believe that she might embody a grace and dignity in death that eluded her in life.”
― 13 Ways: Illustrated Stories
― 13 Ways: Illustrated Stories
“What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”
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“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
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“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Shiloh and Other Stories
― Shiloh and Other Stories
“Brother Fox looked in. He saw two people. He saw them raise their glasses of wine to him, liquid that for him was suspended in the air, as if by a miracle.”
― Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
― Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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Hi Mizuki :) I enjoyed your review, and had never heard of the book. I am looking forward to reading it. Cheers.


Hello Abubakar, thanks for accepting. Cheers :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/boo...

Hi, Jan :) Thanks, it's good to be back. It was productive in many ways, yes, but it also included dealing with various real-life dramas (I prefer the ones in books) and Robin and I moving to a whole new town, in the Central Highlands of Victoria. We are country folk now, and loving it. I hope all is well with you and yours.


Hi, Stephen. Sorry for my late response, but I only just saw this on my status updates. I am happy to meet you, and I look forward to knowing you better, for all those reasons :)

That was one of the best answers to my stupid question I have ever received!
Shelley, Coleridge, Whitman, Dickens, Stevens, WCW...sweet balm for my soul.
Thank you so so much for your..."
Ha ha! Sorry, Dolors, I only just saw this in my status update. I am not a minimalist, I am afraid, when it comes to raving on about books and authors!

That was one of the best answers to my stupid question I have ever received!
Shelley, Coleridge, Whitman, Dickens, Stevens, WCW...sweet balm for my soul.
Thank you so so much for your friend request, I had seen some of your comments in common GR friends and thought you very articulate and erudite. I think we'll have plenty to talk about. Have a nice day:))


In your "about me," I do believe I've found a new source of cosmic relief, td. :)"
happy to do my part, wherever I can, Jan :)

In your "about me," I do believe I've found a new source of cosmic relief, td. :)

Still, a big improvement on "dry retching caught me in my underwear"


I almost never get to say that in real life, due to ... well, obvious reasons. It feels so important and authoritative.

Oh gosh, thanks so much, Jan :)