Laura tells how six million were deprived at the Jane Austen and Comedy Conference in Melbourne! Germiane Greer gave the introductory lecture.
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Graham Base’s 1986 alphabet book Animalia has been turned into an CG-animated TV series which is premiering today at midday on the Ten network in Australia, and simultaneously on BBC1 and CBBC in the UK, PBS Kids in the US and CBC in Canada. There are 40 half-hour epidodes, and you can see a trailer […]
I’ve been enjoying a radio reading of Alice Pung’s novel Unpolished Gem on the Bookshow’s First Person program It is about Pung’s experiences growing up in Melbourne as the child of Chinese-Cambodian parents who were refugees from the killing fields. So I was interested to see her take on Australia’s embarrassing new citizenship test that […]
Austen graphic novels
Posted in books, illustration on Aug 6th, 2007
Liz Wong, painter and a freelance illustrator, is making a graphic novel of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It should be fun to see how it progresses. I looked around to see if there have been other Austen graphic novels, and yes there are. Anne Timmons’ Northanger Abbey is included in Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics […]
Can you hear the world settling into armchairs, sofas and beds, curling up to read Harry Potter?
While my foot is in a cast I’ve picked up an old knitting project, continuing knitting squares for a blanket. I’ve done about 6 new ones, and I’m up to about 42 squares.
I’ve watched a motley collection of DVDs:
Casino Royale - a complete waste of time, apart from the animation at the beginning which was […]
Hufflepuffphobia
Posted in books on Jul 14th, 2007
Fear that if you were at Hogwarts you would be in Hufflepuff.
I’m deep into re-reading all the Harry Potters, enjoying them.
His Dark Materials illustrations
Posted in books, illustration on Jun 4th, 2007
I’ve finished reading Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials now, and I thought it was wonderful. The ideas and characters are still floating round in my head. One of the charms of the trilogy is the little little symbolic illustrations at the beginning of each chapter, drawn in pen and ink by Pullman himself. They […]
Rambling
Posted in books, photographs on May 19th, 2007
Not sure why I thought of this photo this morning. It was taken about 18 months ago at Middleton in South Australia, and I love the washed out summer look with the orange and blue.
I had the pleasure of having lunch with fellow Canberra blogger Ampersand Duck a couple of days ago. I really enjoyed […]
Breakfast reading 4.22
Posted in books, miscellaneous on Apr 22nd, 2007
Dickens World will open in May. I wonder how it will pan out? And what the state-of-the-art animatronic show is? Wasn’t there someone developing a virtual world, a la Second Life, based on Dickens, or did I dream it up? I can’t find it on Google.
Amy gives us an interpretive reading of a 1907 text […]