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Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison

February 24, 2019 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

(My apologies this isn’t available in the US, not even on Kindle, though maybe there’s an audiobook? That’s never happened to me before!) I’ve struggled a bit with my review writing since about November last year, letting them slide just a little too long after I’ve finished the books and then letting my perfectionism slow me down once I do finally get around to writing. I get caught up, and then BAM! I’m four reviews behind again. That’s no place to be with a book […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: abusive marriage, Australian fiction, cbr11, Music and Freedom, piano, Zoë Morrison

Dusty Highway's CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: abusive marriage, Australian fiction, cbr11, Music and Freedom, piano, Zoë Morrison ·
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“I remind myself of the fundamental notion of what it means to be a writer. A writer is the one who controls the narrative.”

May 11, 2018 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

Reading this book, I was reminded of a moment near the end of season 3 of Top Chef, when Casey presents her dish to the judges as a coq au vin inspired by memories of her grandmother. Tom Colicchio scolds her for calling the dish coq au vin when it wasn’t, but he also tells her it was a good dish and probably would have won the challenge if she had just called it what it was: chicken braised in wine. The moral of the […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: #CannonballRead10, abusive marriage, feminism, Meena Kandasamy, poetry, When I Hit You

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:26 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: #CannonballRead10, abusive marriage, feminism, Meena Kandasamy, poetry, When I Hit You ·
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