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A little tea, a little chat
I've been a compulsive reader, writer and theatre goer all my life. My book blog is here: http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/ Mostly food at the moment but also knitting is here: http://cathyingeneva.wordpress.com/
Currently reading
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Nebula Award Stories 3
Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe
Gantenbein
A life of books: The story of D.W. Thorpe Pty. Ltd., 1921-1987
I feel really terrible about this book as I was the one who could have stopped it going to press. Joyce was a fabulous writer of fiction for children, but non-fiction was not her thing.Maybe part of the problem was that it was her story. Maybe she shouldn't have been the one telling that.
Even worse than this effort was a biography of a Melbourne academic which she was commissioned to write for Melbourne University Press. When I read her first draft I was aghast at her complete lack of understanding of and empathy for her subject. Fifteen odd years later I'm still shaking my head about it. Luckily this one didn't see the light of day.