Christine

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Gender	Female
Industry	Consulting
Location	Lockwood, Victoria, Australia
Introduction	I am a writer and historian interested in the way culture meets and interacts with the internal self - not necessarily in that order. This blog is a space for reflection, review, and response. It is by no means intended as a comprehensive history - or analysis, but to record some of my observations.
Interests	read, write, work, gardening, the pets, music my husband and family.
Favorite Movies	The Weeping Camel, Lantana, Life is Beautiful, Romulus My Father - and lasping into theatre, Pinter, Beckett Shakespeare: Television: The Time Team...
Favorite Music	Mahler, Beatles, Arvo Part, Bach, Purcell, Tallis Scholars, Mozart Chopin, Richard Strauss, Wagner
Favorite Books	Roy Vickers's 'Department of Dead Ends' and his stories of 'Fidelity Dove'; Greg Dening's 'Islands and Beaches' Jane Austen -Emma, Persuasion; Bronte sisters, Alexis Wright -Carpentaria; Colm Toibin -Brooklyn; W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz; Emigrants; Inga Clendinnen - Dancing With Strangers; Eva Hoffmann - Lost in Translation; Gerard Manley Hopkins - his poetry, Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart; Charles Darwin- Origin of Speceies; Reading Salman Rushdie, Turgenev, Chekhov