tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088035194475948350.post5816069560639899084..comments2007-05-15T11:44:50.800+00:00Comments on The fall of the world's own optimist: All the time in the worldUna McCormackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08946949711109912505noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088035194475948350.post-65631905743156997782007-05-10T07:14:00.000+00:002007-05-10T07:14:00.000+00:00Yay's the word! Now all I need is to creep back to...Yay's the word! Now all I need is to creep back to my quiet place and start throwing words down. <BR/><BR/>Thoroughly enjoyed the Doris Pocock, which from its relentlessly long sentences and triple exclamation marks seemed to have been written in one night under the influence of coffee and/or speed. It tells the story of the tumultuous affair, ahem, difficult relationship between poor but plucky daygirl Glenys Farrar and rich and jealous boarder Drusilla Moore. Glenys has a talent for art and for making friends and for helping other people get ahead of the game. (On the cover she has bright red hair and specs, which is why Katlinel got it for me!) Drusilla is vastly jealous (of all her gifts), and very lonely. It's one of my favourite stories, of course, poor boy and rich girl, with Glenys having a touch of Blake-generosity and Drusilla a touch of Avon-snarkiness. Do you see what wonders you have worked in my reading habits?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, worth a read, I'd say - can supply if J doesn't have a copy. The others sound wonderful. Didn't you find <I>Self and School</I> at the Haunted Bookshop? It's gutting that it's disappointing. M. and I regularly intone the title at each other: "SELF? OR? SCHOOOOOOOOOLLL?!"Una McCormackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08946949711109912505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088035194475948350.post-87425427609388936812007-05-09T09:07:00.000+00:002007-05-09T09:07:00.000+00:00Awesome. That sounds a bit parallel to my recent r...<I>Awesome</I>. That sounds a bit parallel to my recent realization that Feelings Are Plot Too, which similarly <I>sounded</I> like something I knew (or should have known) all along, but reorganized the way I thought about structuring. Yayy. <BR/><BR/>How are you going/did you go with the Doris Pocock, btw? I've read precisely two DPs, of which one (<I>Self Or School</I>?) was deadly dull, despite dynamite title, and the other (<I>Catriona Carries On</I>) was one of my favourites ever. Currently J is making me read all her slashiest ones, including <I>Pat's Third Term</I> in which she quite literally sleeps with the Head Girl.Ikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16954104097396714498noreply@blogger.com