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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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Current projects underway include: setting up a Wellington-based ink shop, finishing up some sweaters, pulling together multiple drafts for a short story, and pulling together multiple drafts for the Felathia novels that I started many, many years ago.
It’s raining, quite heavily. Flooding at the Wellington hospital, Hutt river doing its thing. We live on a hill and I think it drains well, but you
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"I think it should have more than five stars. It's up there with Ulysses, the Waste Land and Briggflatts, or with Gawain and the Green Knight or the Tain or the Mabinogion.
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"This lonely tale deals with non-linear Time, centred round a hill in Cheshire called Mow Cop and three young men linked to it down the centuries (or are they reincarnations of the same man?) in Roman days, in Cromwell’s time, and the 1970s.
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A long time ago, during a royal visit to NZ, the press mis-identified my daughter as Prince George, and me his Spanish nanny! The romcom would pretty much write itself, though something darker and thriller-ish could definitely work...
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“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
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“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”
"Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.”
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"Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.”
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“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
― Winnie-the-Pooh
― Winnie-the-Pooh
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