May 3, 2010
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TALKING ABOUT BOOKS BEHIND THEIR BACKS SINCE 2007
I try to read 50 new books a year, and this blog records my attempts to get a handle on them. Literary grandstanding or the product of an untidy mind? No one knows.
To the numbers: when I started this blog I was 23 years old. The life expectancy for an Australian female is 83 years. 60 reading years left x 50 books = 3000 books.
Why yes, it is very literal. Some might also say it is numerical.
Please note that as of May 25, 2011, books I received through publicity channels are denoted by an asterisk. Earlier posts will include this information in the text (usually indirectly, e.g. by reference to a published review or interview).
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genevieve | 3rd May 10 | 12:22 pm |
Maybe the person in question is suffering from prosopagnosia – I just had a bad attack of same this week between panel beaters (in the course of half an hour, which was pretty pathetic. My sorry to Grant at Montvern.)
genevieve | 3rd May 10 | 12:23 pm |
and I am always grateful for your excellent reviews, wherever they are, and your lovely face that is far too good for radio, Estelle.
estelle | 3rd May 10 | 9:58 pm |
God bless you Genevieve, and your heartening kindness! I’m no face-rememberer myself, but am particularly sensitive to, um, comparisons to tv cooks, apparently. Nevermind. At least they didn’t say, ‘You look like Bilbo Baggins.’
genevieve | 10th May 10 | 1:16 am |
It was quite incredible what I did to this guy – I had spoken to him, walked outside with him to look at my car, went around the corner with it to a hail repair specialist, came back about 20 mins later and promptly collared a smaller panel beater with a completely different outfit on.
Fortunately he was WITH HIM (Doh!) and corrected me.
Simon | 13th May 10 | 10:38 am |
you are shortish like bilbo baggins, estelle… i don’t really see in what way poh resembles you, though. Genevieve, do not feel ridiculous – it’s a common thing in the study of attention psychology.
This clip is based on a famous experiment (but i can’t find the original video). It’s interesting I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1aEqBaK3aM
estelle | 14th May 10 | 1:44 pm |
I am short and I also have hairy feet. Or do I? That’s the question.
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