ERIN READS AN EXCERPT FROM 'GRIEF GIRL: MY TRUE STORY'
Anyone out there who would like to share their story of grief and/or depression.... Tim Winton/ Kate Grenville/ Helen Garner/ Joan Didion/ Toni Morrison... Lovers of books, writing, art and photography...
GRIEF GIRL Soundtrack: **AFTER the Accident**: The Police/ Adam and the Ants/ Blondie/ DEVO/ Sid Vicious (My Way)/ AC/DC/ Prince (Purple Rain)/ The Motels/ Janis Ian (Seventeen)/ **BEFORE the Accident**: Neil Diamond (Hot August Night)/ Sister Sledge (We Are Family)/ ELO/ The Muppet Movie Soundtrack/ Early Barry Manilow/ Boz Scaggs (Lido Shuffle)/ Sweet (Ballroom Blitz)/ Ram Jam (Black Betty)/ Silver Convention/ ABBA/ The Flying Lizards (Money)
I'm a sucker for OLD MOVIES... It Happened One Night/ The Philadelphia Story/ Holiday/ Now Voyager/ Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (actually, any B&W movie starring Bette Davis)/ The Magnificent Ambersons/ The Thin Man/ Separate Tables/ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf/ Sweet Smell of Success/ The Graduate/ Holiday/ Ship of Fools/ Ryan's Daughter/ Soylent Green... FOREIGN MOVIES... Aguirre, The Wrath of God/ Ali: Fear Eats the Soul/ Repulsion/ Fitzcarraldo/ The 400 Blows/ The Tenant... MODERN MOVIES: Waiting for Guffman/ Muriel's Wedding/ Ghost World/ Elephant/ Beloved/ Team America World Police/ Lost in Translation/ The Virgin Suicides/ Little Miss Sunshine
The Office (English version)/ Ali G/ Reno 911/ Dexter/ Kath and Kim/ Summer Heights High
So many, so I'll start now and add more later... FICTION: Cloudstreet/ Crime and Punishment/ Madame Bovary/ Perfume/ Beloved/ Paradise/ The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole/ Golden Days/ Amsterdam/ Portnoy's Complaint/ The Breast/ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close/ Human Oddities/ Bel Canto/ Riders in the Chariot/ Child of My Heart/ The Color Purple/ Here They Come/ The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman/ Children On Their Birthdays (Truman Capote short story)/ The Sun Also Rises... MEMOIRS: The Year Of Magical Thinking/ Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America/ Truth and Beauty/ The Kiss/ The Liars' Club/ Smashed/ Running With Scissors/ The Burn Journals/ Prozac Nation/ Goat/ Girl Interrupted/ Seducing the Demon/ Queen of the Oddballs... YOUNG ADULT and YOUNGER: The Book Thief/ Speak/ Sold/ Stop Pretending/ The House of the Scorpion/ A Great and Terrible Beauty/ Inexcusable/ The Great Good Thing/ Confessions of a Closet Catholic/ King Dork/ I Don't Want to be Crazy/ The Year of Secret Assignments/ Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging...AUTHORS I adore: Carolyn See, Jeanette Winterson, Patrick White, Phillip Roth, Milan Kundera, Kate Grenville, Helen Garner, Ian McEwan, Johnathan Safran Foer, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Tim Winton, Peter Carey, Lorrie Moore, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes... RECENT READS: The Secret River by Kate Grenville - BRILLIANT!