Literary Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame - Page 3

Bookworm_Girl · 07-30-2020, 04:33 PM

Thanks for the recommendation on the other book!

Another aspect which was autobiographical is that Janet Frame’s brother had epilepsy and two of her sisters died by drowning.

AnotherCat · 09-17-2020, 08:00 PM

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...It has also prompted me to look out Jane Mander's The Story of a New Zealand River written much earlier (1920) and has some reputation it being still in print.

I have now read The Story of a New Zealand River and quite enjoyed it as well as thinking it well written. My only criticism is a just personal one, I felt the story was a bit drawn out for my taste but not enough to spoil the book.

So even though I have also now had a look at her 2 other better known novels which on the face of it do not look so good, I have to add Jane Mander to my very short list of what I regard as competent NZ novelists of literary standing

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Bookworm_Girl · 09-17-2020, 09:21 PM

Thank you for the update, AnotherCat! Another one to add to my TBR list.

AnotherCat · 09-18-2020, 06:30 PM

In case you get to that end of your "to read" list

, apart from the commercial ebook copies there is a free epub in the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection** and a passably good (from the little I checked) reading of it at LibraVox which I may listen to one day. And a yellow paged PDF at Archive.org.

**Unfortunately the NZETC uses TEI markup standards which result in messy and extravagantly built epubs, but are usable (however, I take the trouble to rebuild them to my own tidier versions if there is no other free source).

sun surfer · 09-18-2020, 11:03 PM

Thanks for the info, AnotherCat. Now I too want to read Jane Mander.

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07-30-2020, 04:33 PM	#31
Bookworm_Girl E-reader Enthusiast Posts: 4,873 Karma: 36507503 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southwest, USA Device: Kindle Oasis 3; Kobo Aura One; iPad Mini 5	Thanks for the recommendation on the other book! Another aspect which was autobiographical is that Janet Frame’s brother had epilepsy and two of her sisters died by drowning.

09-17-2020, 09:21 PM	#33
Bookworm_Girl E-reader Enthusiast Posts: 4,873 Karma: 36507503 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southwest, USA Device: Kindle Oasis 3; Kobo Aura One; iPad Mini 5	Thank you for the update, AnotherCat! Another one to add to my TBR list.

09-18-2020, 06:30 PM	#34
AnotherCat .... Posts: 1,547 Karma: 18068960 Join Date: May 2012 Device: ....	In case you get to that end of your "to read" list , apart from the commercial ebook copies there is a free epub in the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection and a passably good (from the little I checked) reading of it at LibraVox which I may listen to one day. And a yellow paged PDF at Archive.org. Unfortunately the NZETC uses TEI markup standards which result in messy and extravagantly built epubs, but are usable (however, I take the trouble to rebuild them to my own tidier versions if there is no other free source).

09-18-2020, 11:03 PM	#35
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44667380 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	Thanks for the info, AnotherCat. Now I too want to read Jane Mander.