Projects | 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
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
“Australia is not a melting pot, more a coleslaw.”| 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
5 posts published by wadholloway during July 2025| The Australian Legend
you are free, I will share you with another man who is worthy of you.| 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
4 posts published by wadholloway during April 2025| 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
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
My reading is divided, in my own mind at least, between Entertainment and Projects.| 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
The Boy in the Bush was written by D.H.Lawrence, based on a novel written at Lawrence’s instigation by Perth writer M.L. ‘Mollie’ Skinner (see my post Writing the Boy in the Bush). This is an impor…| The Australian Legend
3 posts published by wadholloway during June 2025| The Australian Legend
Strange events happen in this world, events which are sometimes entirely improbable.| The Australian Legend
The widow, Tati, keeps the stranger, Jean, on to help around the farm; and to have him in her bed though his attention wanders often to the 16 year old Felicie.| The Australian Legend
9 posts published by wadholloway during April 2018| 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
“I have no faith in men. They’ve made the world, and they’ve made it to suit themselves. My husband takes his family cares as lightly as a tomcat. The children annoy him.”| 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 Song of the Lark (1915), the second in Cather’s ‘Prairie’ trilogy is set, initially at least, in Colorado, the adjoining state to the south and west of Nebraska, the setting o…| 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
