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3 posts published by wadholloway during May 2025| The Australian Legend
3 posts published by wadholloway during May 2025| The Australian Legend
My understanding, prior to today, of the history of English Lit. goes like this: Greeks & Romans The Bible in Greek, Latin and Hebrew The Dark Ages Beowulf (975-1025) Piers Ploughman (1370), Wi…| The Australian Legend
6 posts published by wadholloway during July 2025| The Australian Legend
My sister in law, M, in her wanderings around the city, has found and allowed me to borrow, Susanna de Vries, Strength of Purpose: Australian Women of Achievement from Federation to t…| The Australian Legend
I first read Passionate Friends to support my study of Miles Franklin, but ended up with a wider understanding of first wave feminism, suffragism in Melbourne in the 1900s, and of the evolving natu…| The Australian Legend
10 posts published by wadholloway during April 2020| The Australian Legend
2 posts published by wadholloway during October 2025| The Australian Legend
“Wild geese,’ ... ‘They sound as if they know something about it—something about being alone.”| The Australian Legend
Not just Trump, but our own ‘Labor’ government approving fossil fuel extraction into the indefinite future| The Australian Legend
1788 (1996) is a book in three parts: I reviewed previously the first two, Tim Flannery’s, The Extraordinary Watkin Tench, and Tench’s account of the voyage out (here). Herewith a revi…| The Australian Legend
The Extraordinary Watkin Tench: Early in 1787 the First Fleet, eleven ships containing over 1,000 men, women and children, gathered off the coast of England for the voyage to Australia. 1788 is a r…| The Australian Legend
9 posts published by wadholloway during April 2018| The Australian Legend
7 posts published by wadholloway during March 2018| The Australian Legend
I have two Canadian – hence ‘other side of the world’ – books to review, set on opposite sides of the continent, and in opposite circumstances.| The Australian Legend
5 posts published by wadholloway during October 2024| The Australian Legend
Don’t try to picture the apocalypse, everything is the same. A de Marcken| The Australian Legend
Pay attention, he said, guiding her hands into the stomach of a red-edged changu. Feathered filaments torn, raggedly inflating within blood-speckled gills.| The Australian Legend
4 posts published by wadholloway during June 2025| The Australian Legend
ANZLitLovers Christina Stead Week Nov 14-20 2016 Chris Williams is a journalist who has done a fine job of relating the life of one our great novelists. If I previously used the word ‘journalist’ p…| The Australian Legend
by 1889 the estimated population [of bison] was just 1,091 animals (both wild and captive)| The Australian Legend
.. those who marry from love, may grow rich; but those who marry to be rich, will never love.| The Australian Legend
You think you’e so fine with your bragging and science and human understanding – oh, I’ve heard all about it till I could scream myself insane with the words| The Australian Legend
It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change. It wasn’t as if I didn’t already have somebody to love.| The Australian Legend
2 posts published by wadholloway during September 2025| The Australian Legend
And these two, a boy and and a girl, went forward, each lost in their own world, for a time oblivious of the bigger darkness over the whole land| The Australian Legend
The Woolfmother outed herself as a snob and a racist and an antisemite, failing us because mothers are obliged to fail.| The Australian Legend
Vida Goldstein was a suffragist, a pacifist and a socialist; she stood for Federal Parliament, unsuccessfully, three times; she undertook popular speaking tours of England and the US.| The Australian Legend
2025 – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders. Anton Chekhov, In the Cart (1897) Buried in Print, This Reading Life, wadh (me)Ivan Turgenev, The Singers (1852) BIP 1, BIP 2, This Readi…| The Australian Legend
So much of the dust of living was in me. But this time, somewhere in the interspace between the spirit world and the Living, I chose to stay.| The Australian Legend
5 posts published by wadholloway during August 2025| The Australian Legend
The engine’s blood, half supercooled and half alive, maintained the ship’s sense of itself.| The Australian Legend
Finally, Saunders reminds us that everything he has written is "according to George" and that we should have confidence in our own opinions| The Australian Legend
I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life| The Australian Legend
Posts about Sayaka Murata written by wadholloway| The Australian Legend
6 posts published by wadholloway during December 2023| The Australian Legend
a cry of rage against the inhumanity of corporate greed, a mourning for the destruction of our climate, … and a heartbreaking loss of hope for the future of mankind| The Australian Legend
The gentleman can neither work so hard, live so coarsely, nor endure so many privations as his poorer but more fortunate neighbour.| The Australian Legend
4 posts published by wadholloway during February 2025| The Australian Legend
Biography Miles Franklin was born at her grandmother Lampe’s property, Talbingo, in the highlands of southern New South Wales, on 14 October 1879, the eldest child of Australian-born parents, John …| The Australian Legend
beautiful Pelagea, looking so refined and soft, brought them towels and soap,| The Australian Legend
“The Bear-men were to be her Experimental Philosophers, the Bird-men her Astronomers, the Fly- Worm- and Fish-men her Natural Philosophers, the Ape-men her Chymists| The Australian Legend
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World (2018) is Australian (Melbourne) author Michelle Scott Tucker’s first work. It doesn’t show. This is an assured account of the life …| The Australian Legend
Q. Your book is a biography of Elizabeth Macarthur, who came out to Sydney on the Second Fleet and was instrumental in establishing the wool industry here in Australia.| The Australian Legend
Marriage is between one woman and two men. Women seem to have the upper hand economically| The Australian Legend
On the appointed day, the young men went to bring back their daughter who had brought so much disgrace to them. Immediately Efuru saw the men, she came out and greeted them.| The Australian Legend
These days, the only industries that half thrived in this city dealt in sex, death, or the means to distribute those things on the internet| The Australian Legend
Strange events happen in this world, events which are sometimes entirely improbable.| The Australian Legend
Vasili charges into the dark and the snow, gets lost, recovers; charges into the dark and the snow, gets lost, over and over.| The Australian Legend
The woman whose voice I imagine is not Linda (because there was a real Linda and that presses upon me), and is not me, and is not Gertie| The Australian Legend
At the sight of her full rosy cheeks, her soft white neck with a little dark mole on it, and the kind, naïve smile, which came into her face when she listened to anything pleasant, men thought, …| The Australian Legend
this collection of poems, which are a reflection by the two poets on their experiences living in and around Geraldton.| The Australian Legend
She felt as though she had been living in that part of the country for ages and ages, for a hundred years, and it seemed to her that she knew every stone, every tree| The Australian Legend
Good girls they were, too, conscientious, careful, unselfish, thinking it a virtue to stifle every ambition, smother every craving for pleasure.| The Australian Legend
I decided to see what old Australian men I had on my shelves… there are a few| The Australian Legend
We’re going to need books again, for a while at least. Maybe forever.| The Australian Legend
This is a powerful and disturbing work written by a woman who is angry about men, about family men.| The Australian Legend
The shaggy coat of the prairie, which they lifted to make him a bed, has vanished forever. From the Norwegian graveyard one looks out over a vast checker-board, marked off in squares of wheat and c…| The Australian Legend
my project for 2024 will be to read one Black African work each month with a review to be published (hopefully!) on the last Tuesday| The Australian Legend
