Deborah Adelaide
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62 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Aug 2021
Deborah Adelaide’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hello, Kate.
Well, I'm very much aware that my relationship to reading and other authors is part of this conversation, which I think Belinda might have mentioned in her introduction and some of the other contributors to this book also mentioned.
It's a conversation that never ends.
It just goes on and on and it's one I dip in and out of all the time.
And I think I'm reading...
in two ways at the same time if that's possible i'm reading as a reader and my primary motivation for reading a text is just to get lost in a good story that's that's all i ever ask from it i'm never reading consciously to plunder or steal as a writer but i i probably do do that but i don't do it consciously but i'm also reading very attentively and critically and when i particularly love a text
I am also reading with this question, how did they do it?
How did that author achieve that?
How did they get away with that?
And that I find is a very productive way of reading for me.
And it's not to say that I necessarily want to go and imitate it.
It's enough to know if I can work out how they've managed to do something that excites me as a reader, that seems to be enough for me.
And I find it a very generative act to read like that.
Well, it's a fantastic teaching text.
But if I can just make a few comments about the Australian writer question.
That Nicholas was just discussing.
I think that this novel Snake by Kate Jennings is a quintessential Australian novel from the title onwards.
Because, of course, you know, snake is such a potent thing in Australian literature.
landscape and culture.
You don't get very far into a novel called Snake without thinking of that classic text, Drover's Wife.
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