September 6, 2010
The Melbourne Writers Festival is over for another year. What I would like to do this week is finally read Suzanne Collins’ Catching Fire and Mockingjay. And, importantly, play The Hunger Games Drinking Game.
If you are aflame with the desire for actual (not aspirational) book-reading content, I have a short book review in this month’s Australian Book Review, of Sarah Hopkins’ Speak to Me.
Also, because the Festival bookshop had advance copies, I bought this:
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Comments (3)
genevieve | 6th Sep 10 | 10:49 am |
Yes, I saw your book review! brava.
Envious of that Hamlet – something to ask for for Christmas, I think.
estelle tang | 6th Sep 10 | 10:51 pm |
It is absolutely brilliant. It was the page excerpted in this interview that really did it for me. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2009/12/cartoon-off-nicki-greenberg.html
genevieve | 9th Sep 10 | 6:16 pm |
That is fab that she is being noticed there. I did give her Gatsby a rap somewhere else on one of their blogs, but I don’t think it was that one.
The comparison with Spielman in the comments is great, isn’t it.
Time to buy…(Rubs hands).