Book reading synchronicity
I think this might be my first reference to other social media. In a Marieke Hardy twitter interview I read today, she described how she's been reading Helen Garner's essays to try and develop (improve) her writing style. I like both Helen and Marieke as cultural writers, they weave observation and social commentary as well as humour into their writing. Both would be on my dinner party list-in fact, I decided just last night that I would like to have an all female fantasy dinner party list (which would probably neatly sidestep the fighting over who scored the hot guy at the dinner party*) that was made up of Marieke Hardy, Helen Garner, Noni Hazelhurst, Sally Seltmann, Leigh Sales and Margaret Whitlam (I'd have Hazel Hawke if she didn't have dementia). (One of my cousins has socialised with Margaret and would share naughty gossip about how wonderful but overbearing she is; if I could pick an era of hers, I'd like to invite her when she was a Cabramatta housewife/so...