01. Was lucky enough to score a ticket to the MIFF launch. Which also meant I got a hard copy of the program. Which in turn allowed for early access to tickets. Yay! Have booked a bunch –Ama Gloria; Past Lives; Showing Up; Blackberry; How to Have Sex; Fledglings; Fairyland and the Little Richard doco. Continue reading
Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. This week, all three came from this reading list about motherhood and parents. Continue reading
This Should be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle is a book written in ‘staccato’ but with a mood that is distinctly ‘lamentoso’.
Short, detatched and seemingly unrelated sentences deliver the story of Dorte, a university student living alone and not going to classes. There’s a fair degree of commentary on apple trees, trains, insomnia, ex-boyfriends and her aunt (also named Dorte).
“After that the suitcase lived in my room. At one point it was a bedside table, the lamp threw a white cone of light on it all day long. I lay on the bed doing old crosswords with a biro. I didn’t have that many jobs to do, but I had to remember to turn my jeans inside out when I put them in the laundry bin.”
“They’d forgotten their picnic basket, it was sticking out from under the shrubs in the front garden. I discovered it on the Tuesday morning when I went over to catch the train. I’d tried some new eyeshadow, it was dusty green and supposed to go all the way up, only my eyelids weren’t the right shape. It was only a couple of minutes till the train was due…” Continue reading
This is a case of ‘please do judge a book by its cover’ because Helle Helle’s This Should Be Written in the Present Tense is book-jacket-eye-candy. It begins – Continue reading