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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 Judith Anderson: Australian Star, First Lady of the American Stage, by Desley Deacon
Judith Anderson: Australian Star, First Lady of the American Stageby Desley DeaconMy rating: 5 out of 5 stars
This had languished on my 'To Read' list for seven years, largely because of its intimidating girth.
At 520 pages, it looked less like a biography and more likea personal challenge. Alas, it proved well worth the wait and all the morerewarding for being savoured at a luxuriously unhurried pa
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This had languished on my 'To Read' list for seven years, largely because of its intimidating girth. At 520 pages, it looked less like a biography and more like a personal challenge. Alas, it proved well worth the wait and all the more rewarding for b ...more |
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Liza Minnelli is a name synonymous with such a range of topics: From the old Hollywood she was born into as the sole child of director Vincente Minnelli and silver screen star Judy Garland. To being among the entertainment industry's rare EGOT (Emmy, ...more |
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I had already read and loved this, and the same author's brilliant Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth. Then, with the global streaming release of TV drama series Outrageous, I had to re-read this old Mitford favourite of mine on which the seri ...more |
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Riveting 1954 memoir of 1920s & '30s star of stage, screen and radio, Lillian Roth. Lillian's horrific journey through alcoholism, making for confronting reading at times, was an unprecedented international sensation. Courageously penned, this became ...more |
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There are books that arrive like postcards from a life, and those that arrive like the life itself. This one is of the latter. Though never an ardent fan, I had watched and admired her climb since learning to walk and talk. All of my ilk recalls 'firs ...more |
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My Father Bryce is a calm, deliberate attempt to understand a man who spent his life shaping stories, including those he told himself about himself. Bryce Courtenay’s public identity is familiar to most Australians: bestselling novelist whose books s ...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 :-)