A little silly but I couldn’t resist. I give you for your viewing pleasure: Library Career Romances.
It was a trimly built van like conveyance. At the rear, the doors swung open to show a miniature room equipped with shelves already stocked with books, a tiny desk and racks clipped wherever a stray space presented itself.
“It’s [...]
Boing Boing have pointed out the LRB’s personals, and seem to express surprise that those who would read such a journal produce ’steamy’ copy. Of course, this sort of thing is old news, hell, someone has written a book about her affairs resulting from personals placed in the NYRB (I think, and when I remember [...]
One reason why the SMH’s new Spectrum seemed even meatier today was the inclusion of the Sydney Writer’s Festival program. A few things of interest which I shall list below. I have one thing to say though, for a librarian that Nancy Pearl sure gets around. I think I counted no less than FOUR appearances [...]
I’ve got my broadband back, all is right with the world.
I’ve got a lot of catching up to do, my Mum’s bookclub is reading a new book and I haven’t updated their image, will get to that tomorrow Mum.
It’s Saturday and the papers are hefty so I will start with the SMH’s new Spectrum. They’ve [...]
Have just moved house. No broadband connection at home as yet. Can’t blog. Will be back soon.
In the meantime, check out the things Zoe didn’t buy at the Canberra bookfair.
I couldn’t resist mentioning this. I love my football (that’s Johnny Warren’s football thank you very much) and on the day when my Liverpool hold a slender lead over Juventus after the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie I would like to point you to Reading the Game. Premier League stars partner up [...]
In one of the comments in the Favourite character post the question was raised: why no female lovable idiots? Reading the comments it was noted that a few utterly hopeless characters were loved, despite their flaws, their lack of intelligence, their utter, ‘blondeness’. They were all male.
So I tried to come up with a lovable [...]
Instead of those copies of Cleo from last century, you can now read poetry in the waiting room.
A scheme to promote the healing powers of poetry has
found its way into thousands of GPs’ surgeries. But can rhyming
couplets really help the sick?
Via Bookslut.
