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Books, Movies etc
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Le Crime (Peter Steiner 2008)
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$\"\"$ It\'s a relief to start a bit of honest larceny after the erotic tripe I\'ve been reading recently.

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man wolf man (L K Holt 2007)
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$\"\"$ This has just won the Kenneth Slessor Award at the NSW Premier\'s Literary Awards.

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Gomorra(h) (Matteo Garrone 2008)
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$\"\"$ As my companion said, Very long and boring, but a good movie. I wish I had fluent Italian, because I knew I was missing so much and so much.

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Snow White: Life Almost Lost (Theodore Seifert, trans Boris Matthews 1986)
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$\"\"$ Perhaps this is more acceptable for reading while walking.

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Delta of Venus (Anais Nin 1963)
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$\"\"$ More erotica. Do I need a plain brown cover to read it while walking the dog?

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My Year Without Sex (Sarah Watt 2009)
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$\"\"$ Four years after Look Both Ways, this is very different; very different, too, from the madcap family comedy implied by the trailer. A lovely rendering of ordinary family life: bad things happen, but not all to the same people, and grace comes unexpectedly. The final line of dialogue evoked a sound from a number of people usually heard at fireworks displays.
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Guilt about the Past (Bernhard Schlink 2009)
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$\"\"$ With John w Howard\'s refusal to apologise for the stolen generations (\'We don\'t think it\'s appropriate for the current generation of Australians to apologize for the injustices committed by past generations\') still ringing in our ears, it\'s not surprising that this is an Australian publication, even though the collective guilt it discusses is singularly German and the lectures it contains were given in England.
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A Spy in the House of Love (Anaļs Nin 1954)
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$\"\"$ For my book group -- we decided we should look at some erotica, and Anaļs Nin seemed as good a place as any to start.

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Synecdoche New York (Charlie Kaufmann 2009)
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$\"\"$ This makes me realise what a brilliant job Spike Jonez did directing Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. This went for two hours or so and felt like four. I don\'t plan to spend any more time on it.

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Harvest #2 (2009)
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$\"\"$ It\'s time I read more than just page 11 of this beautiful production.
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