Monthly Archives: December 2010

all the tv shows are doing it, so why can’t I?

Posted on December 11, 2010 by anna cowan

oh wait, I can! I hereby declare a Christmas hiatus. Till Jan or something. I feel the need to write in my journal a bit, which I don’t do when I blog. All I want for Christmas is some self-knowledge. … Continue reading →

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third-wheel romantic hero

Posted on December 10, 2010 by anna cowan

bizarrely, the Melbourne City Library only has books 2 and 3 of Juliet Marillier’s trilogy The Bridei Chronicles. I went ahead and borrowed them anyway. Book 2, The Blade of Fortriu, made for some odd reading for 2 reasons. 1. … Continue reading →

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another writing day

Posted on December 9, 2010 by anna cowan

I’m not doing very well writing at the moment. Doing slightly better with my dishes – I put my mum on speaker phone tonight, and some family gossip made the process much easier to bear. I can’t exactly employ the … Continue reading →

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“For God’s sake, just call him John!”

Posted on December 5, 2010 by anna cowan

tonight was a night of random tv. One of the shows that came on was Lennon Naked, a kind of biopic of John Lennon around the time the Beatles went bust. It made quite a strong thread out of his … Continue reading →

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Mysterious Skin

Posted on December 4, 2010 by anna cowan

I remember when the film version of this came out, and I was intrigued by it, but ultimately put off by how many people told me it was full on. The other day I saw the book in the library, … Continue reading →

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