now that summer is approaching and im not scared of stepping outside anymore, ive decided that i really need to get my shit together and start running again. to help me overcome this fear i have enlisted the best writer in the world haruki murakami. his latest english translation is a series of journal entries as [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘books’
October 25, 2008
what i talk about when i talk about running
October 21, 2008
hobbies?
first day back and the ridiculous reference questions still continue:
suntanned librarian (ST): hi xxxxx library how can I help you?
caller (C): yes, do you have a book about hobbies?’
ST: there are many hobbies, do you have any idea about what you are looking for?
C: no i don’t, which is why i want a book about hobbies?
ST: [...]
October 19, 2008
vacation reading recommendations
having recently returned from a couple of months hanging about in warm places, ive had the good fortune to read some stuff that i would not be caught dead being seen with in melbourne.
[when you work at a public library, your borrowings are everybody's business and everyone has the right to comment on them. like the time a [...]
May 23, 2008
library in the new age
The never ending discourse about physical library v the internet generally bores me. However I found this article in the NY review of books to be quite informative, citing through the ages examples of distrust in the print medium such as this bit:
Le Courrier de l’Europe, a French newspaper produced in London, printed a translated [...]
May 17, 2008
deckchairs
do a google search for penguin deckchairs and check these out they rock. pefect for summer reading in the park.
May 17, 2008
good books can be judged by their covers
listen to this 5 min vodcast by some guy from Vintage who has done covers for the likes of mcsweeneys and haruki murakami.
john gall’s 5 rules of book design
read the book
inspiration is everywhere
be thrifty with fonts
practice sound time management
rules are meant to be broken
May 17, 2008
audience questions to authors that make you roll your eyes at the person sitting next to you
as observed at a tim winton reading/book signing/QA last week.
do you sometimes feel that you don’t want to write?
do you have a set writing routine that you follow every day?
what do you use to write with (ie a pencil or a computer)?
how much of [insert name of character in novel] is based on your own experience?
May 8, 2008
does nancy pearl’s rule of 50 apply to book groups?
as the sole librarian representative on our city council book group i was quite embarrassed to rock up to our book club meeting yesterday and say i hadn’t read the designated book (the bell by iris murdoch). we were given 6 weeks to read it, but every time i started it i got bored and couldnt [...]
May 3, 2008
penguin classics and my reader development plan involving RSS
penguin books have recently opened up a blog where readers can register to review a penguin classic then have their review posted on the blog site. ive just added the url to my rss feed reader so i can have reviews delivered to my igoogle home page every day rather than me go out and find them.
there are 1400 titles [...]
May 2, 2008
the opposite of life
is, like, death???
NO – it’s becoming a VAMPIRE!
set in inner city melbourne, melissa [lissa] is a librarian and ’21st century geekgirl’ . her library manager is a cool fitzroy lesbian who breaks all the moulds of what librarians should look like. lissa’s library passion is shelving books and shelf reading [this is an industry term for making sure [...]
