tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.comments2023-10-31T21:57:55.323+10:00Luvvie's MusingsAlex Dawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comBlogger523125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-84586977560394377792020-01-27T22:17:19.997+10:002020-01-27T22:17:19.997+10:00Wow that was brilliant, well done!Wow that was brilliant, well done!Traceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09153010443545430424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-90218848507571184872020-01-27T09:29:18.562+10:002020-01-27T09:29:18.562+10:00Blue Dog would be a perfect choice for me too, tha...Blue Dog would be a perfect choice for me too, thanks for joining in:)Lisa Hill, ANZ LitLovershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295557490861464595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-24189484663913603872020-01-27T08:42:21.625+10:002020-01-27T08:42:21.625+10:00That was good! Thanks for joining in! 😊That was good! Thanks for joining in! 😊Theresa Smith Writeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06512281965948873766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-44993082710242802972020-01-10T05:22:31.173+10:002020-01-10T05:22:31.173+10:00Dear Ruby - Thank you for reading my post. I have...Dear Ruby - Thank you for reading my post. I have heard of Amy Witting but never read any of her books so thank you for adding to my TBR pile ;)Thank you everyone for responding to my blog and sorry for taking so long to publish your comments. I was delighted to see so many responses :)Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-75199682526797895772020-01-10T05:19:56.735+10:002020-01-10T05:19:56.735+10:00Dear Marilyn - Thank you for your thoughts. I hav...Dear Marilyn - Thank you for your thoughts. I have never heard of "Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread" or its author so shall hunt that one down too. I finally got to see The Overlanders the other night. A bit clunky but still worth seeing. The book was better ;)Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-71077242244833944282020-01-10T05:17:16.238+10:002020-01-10T05:17:16.238+10:00Dear Patricia - thank you for your comment. Durab...Dear Patricia - thank you for your comment. Durable is a fantastic word to describe those women - resilient is probably another very popular word these days too. I am not aware of Debra Adelaide's work but will seek it out so thanks for that hot tip. Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-65690539099400894632020-01-07T10:44:41.016+10:002020-01-07T10:44:41.016+10:00Incidentally Jean Devanny and Ruth Parks were both...Incidentally Jean Devanny and Ruth Parks were both New Zealanders in their late twenties.<br />Dymphna Cusack and Miles Franklin were writing at the time. <br /><br />A novel I really enjoyed by a writer who was born at roughly the same time as Ruth Park is "Isabel on her way to the corner shop" by Amy Wittig. It wasn't published until 1999 as she taught for most of her adult life. Ruby Matangihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03896087943637021155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-32893419417254124752020-01-06T15:30:39.319+10:002020-01-06T15:30:39.319+10:00Inspiring review, Alex. I must source a copy. Init...Inspiring review, Alex. I must source a copy. Initially I was confusing 'the Sundowners' by John Cleary with 'The Overlanders'. Made into a movie in 1960 it featured only one Australian of note in the cast; good old Chips Rafferty. Regarding female writers... Susanna de Vries pointed me towards Joice NanKivell Loch so I read 'Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread'. Early 20th century to be sure but so powerful. I owe de Vries a huge debt for her research into Australian women of all backgrounds and talents. Almost none of them featured in my early education with the exception of May Gibbs via ' Snugglepot and Cuddlepie' and Jeannie Gunn via ' We of the Never Never ' and ' Little Black Princess'. I read 'A Town Called Alice' by Nevil Shute several years ago and was interested to see how our language has changed. It was not quite as patronising and racist as the original 'Tarzan' but it speaks to the era. Marilyn Sandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02051027967847098437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-42771416382083352062020-01-06T10:11:29.598+10:002020-01-06T10:11:29.598+10:00Hi Alex
I read this book mid 2019 and really enjoy...Hi Alex<br />I read this book mid 2019 and really enjoyed it. I thoroughly endorse your review comments and how appropriate are Dan's comments given the weekend we have just experienced on the south coast of NSW. <br />I particularly enjoyed the characterization of the females in the family. Very strong, practical and durable (if that is the right word) women.<br />Are you aware of the the work by Debra Adelaide titled Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide? It was published by Pandora Press and is a very useful reference tool.<br />I am a great fan of Dymphna Cusack and really enjoy re-reading Come in Spinner set in wartime Sydney. <br /><br />Best wishes <br />Patricia (mrspenny on Librarything)<br />Patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12654957281000474454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-84916940636699077782020-01-05T17:13:49.404+10:002020-01-05T17:13:49.404+10:00Thank you for your comment and link Bill. I studi...Thank you for your comment and link Bill. I studied Australian Literature for a second at Sydney Uni yonks ago now - with the redoubtable Leonie Kramer when I was an undergraduate. I'd be interested to know who the other writers were at the time. Are we talking about the likes of Jean Devanny and Ruth Parks? We are a pretty lucky country when it comes to writers aren't we?Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-12599836035699074272020-01-05T12:33:57.652+10:002020-01-05T12:33:57.652+10:00Next week some of my blogger friends and I will be...Next week some of my blogger friends and I will be reading and discussing books by the third generation of Australian women writers, that is from the end of WWI up to the 1950s. I'll put a link to your review. I saw the movie (with Rod Taylor and Chips Rafferty?)in school I think, in the 1960s, but had no idea there was a book<br />Bill Holloway<br />wadholloway@hotmail.com Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08782815680430450560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-44310246355461966822020-01-05T05:41:05.806+10:002020-01-05T05:41:05.806+10:00Thank you Shelleyrae!Thank you Shelleyrae!Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-78465041281351198942020-01-01T14:38:49.697+10:002020-01-01T14:38:49.697+10:00Good luck with the challenge!Good luck with the challenge!shelleyrae @ book'd outhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03888977858862922561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-21264260842459082812019-01-06T13:32:11.646+10:002019-01-06T13:32:11.646+10:00Dear Jill, give him a try. I think you'd quit...Dear Jill, give him a try. I think you'd quite like him. He came and spoke at Arana Hills Library a few years ago. Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-38728374037362784162019-01-04T14:37:36.481+10:002019-01-04T14:37:36.481+10:00Thanks for the recommendation, I haven't read ...Thanks for the recommendation, I haven't read Barry Maitland.GeniAushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09074874999181040071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-21635819985824047552017-08-08T19:12:48.289+10:002017-08-08T19:12:48.289+10:00Dear Constance - sorry to take so long to reply. ...Dear Constance - sorry to take so long to reply. It has been quite a month already hence the delay. I long to actually read the books I collect !Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-71653890279823032272017-08-01T12:17:44.018+10:002017-08-01T12:17:44.018+10:00Quite a few of the books you mentioned are not fam...Quite a few of the books you mentioned are not familiar to me, which is surprising although I am not a librarian (daughter of one), I did work in publishing for 17 years and have extremely varied taste!<br /><br />There was one summer when I was obsessed by Angela Thirkell - I collected an entire set and developed quite a crush on a character called Cecil Waring. However, I think one needs to create that sort of rhythm in order to enjoy without getting dragged down. CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-83628834705340248932017-07-11T08:17:30.333+10:002017-07-11T08:17:30.333+10:00Dear Jill - but you have been MOVING! That's ...Dear Jill - but you have been MOVING! That's huge. I dread the thought of moving one day but relish the thought of losing the stuff.Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-43789173853502006682017-07-09T13:36:33.645+10:002017-07-09T13:36:33.645+10:00Your activity looks pretty impressive to this pers...Your activity looks pretty impressive to this person who has completely lost the plot with her reading.GeniAushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09074874999181040071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-1112186461853229142017-04-30T00:29:45.622+10:002017-04-30T00:29:45.622+10:00How interesting that so many of the books for #195...How interesting that so many of the books for #1951 are about posh Anglo-Americans in Paris. (I've read a few myself). Considering that France was occupied during the war, I'm surprised it so quickly became the center of the fashinable (either rich or artist) so quickly, as it had been before the war. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-1951013226497402842017-04-28T22:54:13.598+10:002017-04-28T22:54:13.598+10:00I'd read The Blessing (I went through a Mitfor...I'd read The Blessing (I went through a Mitford phase) but never heard of the Bagnold. I've seen another Virago by her recommended elsewhere, called The Squire. Sounds worth checking out -- like most of those lovely Viragos. <br /><br />I like that you included some photos and clarifications about the clothes. Those were so important for women of that era...we're so much more lax today, thankfully in my opinion, but it does mean some effort to understand what they're talking about.Loryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08519976394732029323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-69045545529737367372017-04-28T04:55:32.565+10:002017-04-28T04:55:32.565+10:00Thank you Kaggsy! I'll do my best to join you...Thank you Kaggsy! I'll do my best to join you in 1968. Katrina - that comment made me laugh. Yes - imagine being saddled with that name - poor Enid...there would have been lots of teasing at school these days.Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-7782999937161372017-04-28T02:27:27.823+10:002017-04-28T02:27:27.823+10:00What in depth reviews, all very interesting. I hav...What in depth reviews, all very interesting. I haven't read anything by Enid Bagnold, I think her name puts me off - very shallow of me I know.Katrinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138715309807238198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-81743900998560944422017-04-27T22:12:25.520+10:002017-04-27T22:12:25.520+10:00Lovely reviews and so glad you could take part! Ne...Lovely reviews and so glad you could take part! Next time is 1968 - do join in! :)<br /><br />kaggsysbookishramblingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256130805076511496.post-15809354115926341872017-04-03T12:13:12.819+10:002017-04-03T12:13:12.819+10:00Thanks Alex. I loved the movie - sounds like I sho...Thanks Alex. I loved the movie - sounds like I should read the book.GeniAushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09074874999181040071noreply@blogger.com