Book review: the Neopolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante
It can be difficult for a book nerd like me to describe what makes a book great. For some of us, action is not what it takes. Characters, locations, maybe…
Chit Chatting
When I was 17, I moved to Geelong to go to Deakin University. What followed was a year and a half of eye opening, brain exploding, mind numbing, CONVERSATIONS with…
The Wanderers
The last few days, catching up with mum and dad, Holly, I’ve been thinking. What was the actual point of going to Sicily again, just six months after we left?…
But is it true?
How prescient @markmanson I read his newsletter today (always excellent, go sign up to it and this quote stuck with me because, earlier, I’d said to Jeff, “I’m so tired.”…
23 Days, Boredom and 60s Italian Pop Music
“Italy without Sicily leaves no image in the spirit. It is in Sicily that the key to everything is found. The purity of the contours, the softness of everything, the…
Are we there yet?
I’m not embarassed to say that I am Substack fan. Not that I’m the “get the logo tattooed on my body” type of fan. But I am happy to say…
Too much time
What happens when you have too much time on your hands? You may say, lucky you. And you could be right. I used to be busy busy busy but I…
35 Days. I don’t want to jinx it.
But I am really starting to think, with 35 days to go, that our trip to Sicily is going to go one of two ways. I like to call this…
Stop telling us not to talk about Madonna’s face – And why Madonna is the biggest misogynist of all.
And why you are, too, if you say I can’t or shouldn’t comment on her face. In the last few years, there’s been this line: “Women who criticise other women…