Posts by Carol Stewart
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
A friend in Christchurch was telling me yesterday that her (Australian) mother, who had been involved in state level politics herself in her younger days, insisted in casting her final vote in person, at a polling booth, despite being not just hospitalised but dependent on various life support systems. So they wheeled the whole setup through the hospital to the on-site polling booth.
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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
have you seen this, Lucy?
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Hard News: Last Words, in reply to Richard C,
Astonishingly - to me at least - she *phoned* my wife back
She phoned me too, Richard, in response to an irate email from me about National Standards (which she was defending). I was very taken with her even though I continued to disagree. And I'm not even remotely in her electorate.
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A good initiative by the Herald - a quiz on knowledge of the different voting systems being paraded before us this year.
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3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
Books don't normally have that effect on me, but .. Laurence Fearnley's Edwin + Matilda, in the closing scenes. Mother-son dynamics. Packed a wallop.
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People might be upset if zombies were annihilated.
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2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
Comics! They were kind of a guilty pleasure as they were seen as being inferior to books, which totally sucks. Plus a copy of Lady Chatterley discovered on my parents' bookshelf ...
And speaking of Dan Brown, check out this gem of a review from the New Yorker.
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These huge meltwater lakes have formed since I first visited Mt Cook national park in the mid 1980s
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Capture: Capture One, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Sorry to tinker
Please tinker on, Ian!
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1) What are you reading at the moment?
Just finished The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell. Are there any other David Mitchell enthusiasts among you? He is my favourite discovery of the last year or so.
