tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post8001529235454172719..comments2024-03-07T07:47:38.595-08:00Comments on The Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italy: Am I Real Enough?The Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15202093107784073194noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-75569688595026609002014-05-30T00:03:37.540-07:002014-05-30T00:03:37.540-07:00But I am shaky I assure you! I'm still a novic...But I am shaky I assure you! I'm still a novice and I need my prosecco or deep red beforehand. Performing is such a different art form from writing - exactly the opposite I'd say. And yet if you want to run away with the circus you have to join the lions in the ring!The Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202093107784073194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-13583174179467164822014-05-29T11:01:26.801-07:002014-05-29T11:01:26.801-07:00Rae I read the interview! It was great! I'm no...Rae I read the interview! It was great! I'm now doing the same one too. What a jumble of words.. Trying not to repeat myself. Yours was really cool girl xThe Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202093107784073194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-54704606914637969342014-05-26T21:49:52.475-07:002014-05-26T21:49:52.475-07:00Oh you. I can just imagine you in front of a serio...Oh you. I can just imagine you in front of a serious audience charming the pants off everyone with your quick wit. I don't know how authors do it, I'd be so damn shaky I'd have to bring a bottle of my favorite wine with me everywhere I went. As far as being in the audience, I'm typically an astute observer. Happy to be there enjoying the banter and getting to know the author in the way she chooses to express herself. If you ever get to Southern California I will be the front row!Leslie Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06367872267145012395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-19444481691302043462014-05-23T17:33:21.774-07:002014-05-23T17:33:21.774-07:00AH - on the day I procrastinate to avoid writing a...AH - on the day I procrastinate to avoid writing an interview (for fear I will ask stupid questions)...just what I needed!Rachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-75575663536886061532014-05-16T07:26:06.800-07:002014-05-16T07:26:06.800-07:00Thanks Lyn but don't worry I have my drab mome...Thanks Lyn but don't worry I have my drab moments too! Hope you are enjoying your Italian trip and thanks for dropping in. Ciao catThe Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202093107784073194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-11885795432977271072014-05-16T05:37:43.456-07:002014-05-16T05:37:43.456-07:00Hi Catherine, good to hear from you again. I know ...Hi Catherine, good to hear from you again. I know I have said it before, but, you do have an amazing life. Another entertaining story LynTravelling with Lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08893036148633206702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-33685395063879734052014-05-15T02:36:34.214-07:002014-05-15T02:36:34.214-07:00Grazie Mangiagatti! Enjoy your next foray into Tim...Grazie Mangiagatti! Enjoy your next foray into Tim Parks. I missed him speaking in Bassano once - peccato! Thanks for your support at the Wood Green do. I think there were some feisty questions thrown in, no?The Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202093107784073194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-14815677045431600842014-05-14T16:41:35.363-07:002014-05-14T16:41:35.363-07:00I've read almost everything Tim Parks has writ...I've read almost everything Tim Parks has written about his life in Italy...& have 'Sex Is Forbidden' ready to penetrate,& 'Italian Ways...' to embark on! I loved his book on being a football fan too...'A Season with Verona'...enjoying as I am this season my team, Crystal Palace's, 2nd highest finish in 109 years,skippered by an Aussie called Mile Jedinak!! I'd ask Tim to explain how Hellas Verona have finished higher than the Flying Donkeys in Serie A?! I bet that would throw him at a bibliomaniacs' q.& a.! I once saw Alexander McCall Smith at a get-together at Daunt's in Marylebone High Street handle a disparate set of questions with aplomb & amused indulgence at the variety of responses to his work, patient & understanding with the most banal questions about his craft. Tim Parks has a point though; the literary groupie is not a figment of his imagination...& his autograph or 'fan-selfie' is all part of the show-business aura that now surrounds top writers. You looked fine at your Wood Green gig,Catherine...quite enigmatic & quixotic...as the best writers often are! mangiagattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04741051458282932879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-78257653560368492802014-05-14T09:41:12.745-07:002014-05-14T09:41:12.745-07:00Albania wow! Must catch up with your blog. I think...Albania wow! Must catch up with your blog. I think you would have laughed long and loud at my Veneto-flavoured interview in Matera. <br />Too many jaunts.. yeah! But Rome is next on my list I promise. Just choose a great bar for aperitivi..The Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202093107784073194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-70851386110398740092014-05-14T09:18:31.914-07:002014-05-14T09:18:31.914-07:00Hi Catherine. Greetings from Albania, where I am t...Hi Catherine. Greetings from Albania, where I am this week... I'm afraid i've never been a Parks fan, but I am sorry I missed YOUR author interview down in Matera. I'll be happy to attend the next. one you have. Sounds like lots of recent jaunts, but yet you have no time for Rome. *Sighs*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-31509909123950619102014-05-14T03:29:18.512-07:002014-05-14T03:29:18.512-07:00Yeah.. I'm not sure I even sold any copies but...Yeah.. I'm not sure I even sold any copies but I had them with the crack about counting the tractors going by.. A huge glass of primitivo helped me land on my feet that time!<br /><br />Would love to be driving about Sicily in May !The Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202093107784073194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-21113000998221373632014-05-14T03:26:54.586-07:002014-05-14T03:26:54.586-07:00Thanks for your kind comments Di. Ahh we are all s...Thanks for your kind comments Di. Ahh we are all so far from home. For me home is where the piano is.<br /><br />I haven't read Catton's book and yes it makes a huge difference if the questions are intelligent the audience already feels engaged.<br /><br />I'm usually too daunted to put up my hand..The Divorced Lady's Companion to Living in Italyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202093107784073194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-84408069939606905362014-05-14T03:09:16.624-07:002014-05-14T03:09:16.624-07:00That's marketing for you, unprepared journos a...That's marketing for you, unprepared journos and an audience with an expectation of how they want you to be.....I'm sure you land on your feet every time Catherine, you're such a combo of class and wit. Parks "Italian ways' is also a good insight into Italian trains but I'm off to Sicily in a rent a carSuehttp://www.anaussieinitaly.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291389383714567128.post-71680698734794539852014-05-13T11:41:06.289-07:002014-05-13T11:41:06.289-07:00Had to smile, I only recently went to my very firs...Had to smile, I only recently went to my very first author presentation and I'm quite old now. I'm a New Zealander living in Belgium, too long away from home really, and we had this year's Man Booker Prize winner, NZer Eleanor Catton, coming to speak in a bookshop over in Brussels.<br />I had devoured her book, and I used be in on the edge of the writing scene back in NZ, long ago. I was hungry for a wee taste of home. <br />I found that I really didn't want to ask questions. She was brilliant, explaining so much about that complex book of hers. But she was interviewed by a Dutch writer, perhaps the questions were intelligent and thought-filled. Maybe that's why I had no questions ... I don't know. <br />I love your blog!! :-) I have it on my blog feed reader thingy.Dihttp://www.dimackey.com/blognoreply@blogger.com