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 |