It's another Tequila sunrise... (For Ken & Teela, the Dude, Brian Wilson bartender, and especially Owen... ) * Check this out. One-eighth Vulture is an online writing mag publishing, promoting and linking writers in two of the UNESCO cities of literature - Melbourne and Edinburgh (my two favourite cities!) The site is very new at the … Continue reading Chilled-out Sunday round-up
John Marsden
Home and Away – John Marsden & Matt Ottley
Lothian, 2008, 9780734410566 (Australia) This is my picture book of 2008 - a poignant and necessary story of an ordinary Australian family who find themselves in the midst of a war, and as refugees, are placed in a detention camp. The book is heartbreaking, and older kids should read it. Yes, it will make them … Continue reading Home and Away – John Marsden & Matt Ottley
Two Hamlets
Hamlet: A Novel, John Marsden, Text, 9781921351471, 2008 (Australia) + Hamlet (film), directed by Kenneth Branagh, 1996. John Marsden has always had a distinct ability to grasp and express adolescent experience. His Hamlet: a Novel is highly accessible for an audience familiar with heightened perceptions of desire, deception, unfairness, traps, loneliness, defiance, and existential angst. If you are familiar … Continue reading Two Hamlets
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