Comments for bookish girl http://bookishgirl.com.au I blog about books - reading and writing books. Tue, 21 May 2013 03:35:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Professor Marie Bashir launches the Sydney Story Factory – and Markus Zusak launches ‘I met a Martian & other stories’ by Lucy http://bookishgirl.com.au/2012/07/21/professor-marie-bashir-launches-the-sydney-story-factory-markus-zusak-launches-i-met-a-martian-other-stories/#comment-5387 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:35:29 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=1172#comment-5387 I stumbled across this the other week when on my way to The White Rabbit – what a fantastical place – laughed and ooh’d and ahh’s in equal measure – so inventive, inspirational and fun! Kudos to them for setting one up in Sydney!

]]> Comment on ‘We are all corals now: A meditation on art, science and hope in an age of global warming’ – Margaret Wertheim’s Templeton Lecture, Part II by ‘We Are All Corals Now’–Days Of The Week | «double vision» http://bookishgirl.com.au/2013/04/06/we-are-all-corals-now-a-meditation-on-art-science-and-hope-in-an-age-of-global-warming-margaret-wertheims-templeton-lecture-part-ii/#comment-5385 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:56:12 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=1786#comment-5385 […] Figuring Director Margaret Wertheim presented ‘We Are All Corals Now’ –’a metaphor for human action in the face of global warming’ image from […]

]]> Comment on Reality Bites literary fest 2012 at Cooroy Library via the Sunshine Coast by iRead » Blog Archive » What I’m Reading Wednesday http://bookishgirl.com.au/2012/07/30/reality-bites-literary-fest-2012-at-cooroy-library-via-the-sunshine-coast/#comment-5286 Tue, 14 May 2013 23:47:00 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=1210#comment-5286 […] a blog – Bookish Girl – is an excerpt from a 16 year old girl, Jadye McGrath. Jadye wrote a story titled […]

]]> Comment on Double Entry and the real da Vinci code: Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci in Milan by Jane Gleeson-White http://bookishgirl.com.au/2011/12/14/double-entry-and-the-real-da-vinci-code-luca-pacioli-and-leonardo-da-vinci-in-milan/#comment-5158 Fri, 10 May 2013 21:57:03 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=574#comment-5158 What a lovely message, thank you so much Alessandro.

]]> Comment on Double Entry and the real da Vinci code: Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci in Milan by Alessandro http://bookishgirl.com.au/2011/12/14/double-entry-and-the-real-da-vinci-code-luca-pacioli-and-leonardo-da-vinci-in-milan/#comment-5153 Fri, 10 May 2013 15:28:20 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=574#comment-5153 Thanks you for writing such an incredible book.
You wided my mind, my eyes,
I will never think about our own “Partita Doppia” as before.
Love
Alessandro Volpin
a fellow italian, venetian, accountant and merchant.

]]> Comment on ‘You can’t take the experiences out of your head / You can’t take the damages out of your heart’: Ben Quilty’s After Afghanistan – and Homer, Virgil and Nadeem Aslam by whisperinggums http://bookishgirl.com.au/2013/04/15/you-cant-take-the-damages-out-of-your-heart-ben-quilty-after-afghanistan/#comment-5050 Tue, 07 May 2013 04:31:20 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=1834#comment-5050 I saw a couple of programs on the ABC about Quilty and these paintings. Amazing. Moving. Your photos here are almost tactile.

]]> Comment on Molly Ringwald and Sylvia Nasar at the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 by whisperinggums http://bookishgirl.com.au/2013/05/07/molly-ringwald-and-sylvia-nasar-at-the-sydney-writers-festival-2013/#comment-5049 Tue, 07 May 2013 04:27:52 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=1867#comment-5049 Oh, I love that opening by Ringwald … but in Paris now? In Spring? My heart bleeds for you!!

]]> Comment on Molly Ringwald and Sylvia Nasar at the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 by Kate Forsyth http://bookishgirl.com.au/2013/05/07/molly-ringwald-and-sylvia-nasar-at-the-sydney-writers-festival-2013/#comment-5035 Mon, 06 May 2013 20:53:42 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=1867#comment-5035 They both sound fascinating! And lucky you, being in Paris :)

]]> Comment on ‘NB The prince – Christ’: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky – and the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 by Jane Gleeson-White http://bookishgirl.com.au/2013/04/12/nb-the-prince-christ-the-idiot-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky-and-the-sydney-writers-festival-2013/#comment-4184 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:32:11 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=1803#comment-4184 Thanks Kate! Lovely to hear from you. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on The Idiot (and to reading The Wild Girl, it sounds so wonderful).

]]> Comment on ‘NB The prince – Christ’: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky – and the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 by Kate Forsyth http://bookishgirl.com.au/2013/04/12/nb-the-prince-christ-the-idiot-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky-and-the-sydney-writers-festival-2013/#comment-4177 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:31:33 +0000 http://bookishgirl.com.au/?p=1803#comment-4177 Sorry for typos! I was typing on my I-pad. I meant I’d be reading the rest of your blog now :)

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