Take a protagonist you identify with strongly. Add a handful of your favourite ingredients: duality, fantasy, escapism, stereotypes, Italy, writing, literary pastiche, and black humour. Shake together viciously, and serve cold. Lady Oracle was a fabulously good read, one I finished barely minutes after the Sheilaroos' tragic exit from the World Cup.
Lessons learned:
1. Book sales are wonderful, if only to remind you of writers you'd always meant to read more of, but forgot.
2. Feel like writing again, and it's a good feeling.
3. Time to renew my membership at Bangalore's one and only online library.
If you are what you read, right now, I am
A hardbound monkey with a typewriter. ~ Bookish Girl is reading Vikram Chandra's Red Earth And Pouring Rain.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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3 comments:
Hello, your introduction and description, basically the "about me" needs to change. As your agent (to be..:)), my advice is that you change it and make it moe of today
Who or what is Sheilaroo?
So, you still secretly think England is going to win the world cup ?
1. Okay. (Never argue with Servicing!)
2. The Sheilaroos are the Australian football team. (Actually, they call themselves the Socceroos. The friendly English press call them the Sheilaroos.)
3. Of course I do. (But then, I also believe France will send Brazil home.)
France did send Brazil home.
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