Ha, I did it. Learnt how to post a new entry that is. OK. This weekend I finished a new book from Dee about a father a son and the movies. You can see I have forgotten the title and am too damn lazy to walk to bedroom to check it. Anyway, this rather cute book will appeal to those of you who have sons approaching or in adolescence, those of you who teach boys in adolescence and those of you who may counsel parents of adolescent boys. That accounts for about half our bookclub so this book will at least get read. Son hates school (this is a true story) so father takes a big gamble and allows him to leave at the age of 16 provided that they watch three movies a week together. This, he reckons will at least add something to the boy's general education. They start with the classics and move through some more classics and through different genres and have conversations about love and girls etc. I was mildly underwhelmed but acknowledge that if one watched all these movies, it would be quite something.
I am now reading my own book, the autobiography of George Bizos which began with a fascinating account of his early life in Greece before the second world war and I am up to the inquest of Neil Aggett and am thinking of his sister Jill who married Paul and who none of you know so I'll stop this right now.
I have a Sunday nighter even though it's Monday, so this is hardly a scintillating blog entry. Sorry.
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Blast.I've forgotten how to post a new blog. Anyway, no-one has responded to this one so expect holiday fever has taken hold. I am reading the funniest book ever: AA Gill on restaurant reviews. I can only read it in short spurts because I have to keep wiping my eyes. It's laugh out loud stuff and what a way this guy has with words. Highly recommended. Called Table Talk. Jane's book.
No idea how I began a new entry. Does anyone know how to do it?
Now listen e-literates... you can't have a name like that and not be techno savvy! Where are all the responses to pam... oops sorry... gringomutti???? Here I am across the world reading this blog and silence from all of the E-literates! But Gringomutti? where did that name come from? Am I missing something? This is such a great opportunity to discuss books and everything else. I've just had some interesting feedback on JM Coetzee on my blog http://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com/search/label/Dianne%20Hofmeyr
Di, gringomutti was my name when I was responding to Steve's blog when he was doing his journey across South America. There were three of them, Steve, Nadia and Fausto and they called themselves unofficially the gringos, so I became the mother (mutti) of one of the gringos.
This blog is rather old and because only Karen responded, I gave up and began a new one called Anacoluthon which I will continue even if we are the only two talking.
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