(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a distinctly odd thing when grief finally and fully gets its murderous hooks into you. All of your life up until that point, you are told what grief is, what it looks like and the kind of trajectory it will follow which is, we’re told, much Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Book review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
(courtesy UQP) Every nation has a story that it likes to tell about itself. These stories serve to either bolster a nationalistic sense of identity, propagate an aggrandising myth of nationhood or portray history in a way that burnishes the country and its founders rather than detracts from it. Australia Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie and streaming trailers: Spaceman, Robot Dreams, Constellation, Ripley + Alexander: the Making of a God
(via Shutterstock) Isn’t it weird to be a little relieved that things a tad quiet on the movie and streaming front atm? Clearly not whisper quiet since this post has five trailers, among many currently out there in the world, but quieter than the usual end-of-year-get-this-thing-eligible-for-the-Oscars frantic which is fun Continue Reading
Book review: City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
(courtesy Bloomsbury Publishing) Imagination, it likely goes without saying, sits at the very heart of all writing. After all, how can a writer venture into worlds other than their known, into the souls of people they can’t possibly know except by creating them in their hearts and minds and fashion Continue Reading
Blood runs in the family: Thoughts on The Brothers Sun
(courtesy First Showing) You have to love any series that uses the energetic musical idiosyncrasy of Belgian popster Plastic Bertrand’s “Ça plane pour moi” to soundtrack a montage of two long estranged brothers bonding in L.A. at the supposed multi-million dollar vacation home of actor John Cho. You have to Continue Reading
Picture book review: Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett
(courtesy Allen & Unwin) We are supposed to face our fears; that’s the prevailing advice and stacked up against being frozen to the foot by dreading what terrified your soul, it’s pretty sound advice. In theory. But, and here’s the sticking point, facing what makes us fearful goes against every Continue Reading
Book review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Working out who you are is a full-time, lifelong job. But it gets going in earnest when we’re teenagers when life goes from idle, childlike curiosity to something chaotically emotional and emotional with a thousand competing questions buzzing for contemplative airtime in our head. It’s a Continue Reading
All suspects aboard: Thoughts on Death and Other Details (S1, E1-2)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Murder is a very serious thing. As is the investigation to solve it which inevitably uncovers all kinds of nefarious intent, impulsive violent action and dreadfully dark consequence. And yet, somehow, when a murder mystery finds its way to the movies, or in the case of Death Continue Reading
Book review: After the Forest by Kell Woods
(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) When stories are well and truly seared into the popular consciousness, as is the case for many fairytales, it can devilishly hard, and yes, that descriptive word has been used quite deliberately, to take another run at them and give Continue Reading
Movie review: The Holdovers
(courtesy IMP Awards) You only have to be alive and in the thick of life for a very short time to realise that at any given time, our lives balance on a wafer thin ledge between bracing hope and searing reality. We obviously want to believe we will tip over Continue Reading