PREFACE AND DISCLOSURE: As some of you know Son Gums is a primary school teacher. One of the programs he likes to run with his class is "the Passion Project". Part of the theory behind this project is that kids don't always get to do in class the things that really interest them so, over … Continue reading Leah A, Ten silly poems by a ten year old (Review)
Month: October 2016
Six degrees of separation, FROM Extremely loud and incredibly close TO The women’s pages
I have never played this #6Degrees "meme" before but when Kate (BookasAreMyFavouriteAndBest) announced that Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud and incredibly close (her response) would be the October starter, I knew I had to do it. Read on to see why ... I have read Extremely loud and incredibly close and as I recollect I enjoyed it. I don't … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM Extremely loud and incredibly close TO The women’s pages
Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian Arts, mid-1960s style
Last week's Monday Musings discussed my high school history book, Nation and people, published in 1967. I don't plan to labour this book, but I would like to share its chapter on the Arts. The authors, Brian Hodge and Allen Whitehurst, dedicate 8 pages to "The Arts" which is pretty good, I think, for a school history book. … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian Arts, mid-1960s style
Mike Ladd, Invisible mending (Review)
I think ... how all our best art is free; as complex as that, as simple as that. (Gaudi and the light) I rather liked this statement from Mike Ladd's collection Invisible mending, even though I'm not totally sure what he means! Does he mean freely available, that is, we don't have to pay to access it? … Continue reading Mike Ladd, Invisible mending (Review)
Whispering Gums 