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By talking to other writer friends - who always have an opinion which, right or wrong, seems to shake my block and drive me back to the screen.
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My review of 18 Months of One Night Stands, by Dolores Dunbar
18 Months of One Night Standsby Dorlores DunbarMy rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Long ago in Far North Queensland, a tiny exotic girl named Dolores twirledbetween tamarind trees and on tabletops. She sang as she skipped and whirled inthe tropical sunshine, a vocal gift inherited from her opera mother Kay Zammit,a celebrated radio and Tivoli Circuit soprano.
Kay was the eldest of ten offspring of Maltese '
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| Orry-Kelly was synonymous, in old Hollywood, with Oscar winning costumes and career-long close working affiliations with icons like Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Ava Gardner, Kay Francis, Dolores del Río, Ann ...more | |
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First published in 1908, this is considered one of Bennett's finest works. His breathtaking detail and description is something to behold. The story begins around 1840 in the Staffordshire pottery town of Burslem, where young sisters Constance and Sop ...more |
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| This historical family saga is one of my favourite literary works, which surprises me as it was written not in antiquity with my other all-time favourites, but in 2001. My introduction was director Joe Wright's 2007 BAFTA and Academy Award nominated ...more | |
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| A must for all Jean Rhys aficionados. This was her first ever published writing, which came about by chance and desperation. Those who read her posthumously published unfinished autobiography Smile Please will know that the story behind these Left Ba ...more | |
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“I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.”
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“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“Life if curious when reduced to its essentials”
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“A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened...
And then the days came and I was alone.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
And then the days came and I was alone.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
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Lauren wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Also, good answer - very good answer!"Lauren wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Also, good answer - very good answer!"
Thanks Lauren, yes I've been a diehard Jean Rhys fanatic for about 35 years :-)
