tim winton’s latest book, breath, is finally here. it’s not available in bookstores until next week, but it arrived at the library a week early. needless to say i have read it.
its set in a fictionional town in the south west coast of wa – somewhere near margaret river – in the 70s. being chicken enough to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘one of the few perks of the job’
April 26, 2008
breath
January 1, 2008
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my team processes and catalogues all the serials for our library, so over the break I have been taking home piles of waiting to be processed mags to flick through. below are some of the more interesting things [...]
August 21, 2007
one of the few perks of working in a library
yesterday i accompanied the chinese language librarian to the chinese bookstore in the city to help select some Chinese learning materials [being the resident girly swot language expert]. but I got sidetracked with the bilingual cooking books and dvds. i actually don’t cook, i just look at the pictures. …but i might be tempted to [...]
