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We are in Bologna at the
Children's Book Fair. There are five of us in a tower flat. Me,
Scott,
Holly,
Cassie and
Maureen. We are the Tower Gang.
So far we have eaten really good food, gossiped and walked under many porticoes. Tomorrow the fair starts and we meet our non-English language publishers. And we eat more good food.
My life is so very hard.
Update: Fine. Here have some photos. Courtesy of Maureen, which is why she is not in them. I will remedy that later.
Posted by Justine at 12:25, March 30th, 2008 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling |
Maureen,
BUY THE DRESS!!!
xox
Justine
PS You should all go to
her blog and tell her to buy it. She looked divine. Even more divine than
her new website.
Posted by Justine at 5:17, March 28th, 2008 under Bloggery, Fashion, Frippery |
Posted by Justine at 16:12, March 26th, 2008 under Liar, New York City/USA, Praising, Sydney/Australia, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 14:15, March 25th, 2008 under Liar |
Rome was unbelievably wonderful especially the food. A friend of mine spent four months in Italy and gained around three kilos---I think I managed that in one week. Excellent!
I am at work on a post about the fabulous food we ate and a number of others---including another writing one ((See? I do listen to you. You ask that I blog it and blog it I will.))---but work on my next novel has got in the way of finishing them. Stupid novel! Not to mention the erraticness of our internet access. But, soon, my pretties, soon!
In the meantime I'm exhausted but happy: there's cricket on the tellie. All's right with the world. And even though England's doing kind of okay I ...
Posted by Justine at 19:11, March 24th, 2008 under Cricket, Excuses, Sport, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 5:57, March 21st, 2008 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 0:00, March 17th, 2008 under Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 10:48, March 16th, 2008 under Fashion, Vainglory |
Posted by Justine at 22:39, March 15th, 2008 under Praising, Sydney/Australia, Young Adult literature |
Seriously, I'm not sure I want to watch tellie any more now that
The Wire's gone. What's the point?
Posted by Justine at 1:50, March 15th, 2008 under Viewing, Whingeing |
In my new I-will-go-to-shows phase I has already been to three shows this year. Three! Manon Lescaut, South Pacific, and last night
Passing Strange. I know none of you recommended that one but I was taking Emily's advice that it's best to see a show that's still fresh and whose cast isn't jaded and cranky.
Passing Strange was definitely that show. I loved it.
Some brilliant music, some fabulous sendups of proper Broadway show tunes and dancing. The acting was wonderful and the writing sharp as. But what I loved most about Passing Strange was that I recognised so many of the characters. I don't think I've ever seen a musical about people so familiar to me. Twas eerie.
What kind ...
Posted by Justine at 0:00, March 14th, 2008 under New York City/USA, Viewing |
Posted by Justine at 13:57, March 13th, 2008 under Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 23:01, March 12th, 2008 under Words & Language |
Posted by Justine at 0:00, March 12th, 2008 under Bloggery, Publishing business, State of the World |
I love them hugely, deeply, widely, vastly, cortohumeringisously! ((I'm also fond of hideously bad neologisms.))
Posted by Justine at 19:02, March 11th, 2008 under Words & Language |
Posted by Justine at 11:12, March 11th, 2008 under Publishing business |
Posted by Justine at 11:24, March 10th, 2008 under Publishing business, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 17:10, March 9th, 2008 under Bloggery, Publishing business, Ranting |
I went and saw
South Pacific this week with the fabulous Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner. My head's been stuffed full of those songs ever since. It's definitely one of my favouritest musicals. I'd only seen the movie before and, well, "good" is not a word you can use to describe it. But the stage production at Lincoln Centre is wondrously good. I'd go see it again in a heartbeat.
I've seen so few musicals live. Kiss Me Kate is, I think, the only other one I've seen as an adult. Loved it! My resolution for this year is to see many, many more. I'm dying to see
Passing Strange. And I'm convinced that getting to see good productions ...
Posted by Justine at 12:41, March 7th, 2008 under Listening, New York City/USA, Viewing |
Posted by Justine at 12:44, March 6th, 2008 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Fans & readers, Words & Language, Writing life, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 19:22, March 5th, 2008 under Fans & readers, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 12:35, March 4th, 2008 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Vainglory |
Posted by Justine at 12:18, March 3rd, 2008 under Ranting, Words & Language, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 14:42, March 2nd, 2008 under Unicorns, Writing goals & milestones, Zombies |
Posted by Justine at 0:16, March 2nd, 2008 under Liar, New York City/USA, Research |
Another review of
First Kiss (Then Tell) edited by Cylin Busby and here's my story's mention:
Hands down favorite for sheer grossness (it was so gross it was funny!) was Justine Larbalestier's "Pashin'", a tale of her friend's first kiss.
I am the grossest of them all.
Posted by Justine at 11:41, March 1st, 2008 under First Kiss, Vainglory, Young Adult literature |
