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Tag Archives: books
On Launching John Birmingham’s How to Be a Writer (Avid Reader, 9 June 2016)
Why, when things have changed so much in the publishing industries, listen to someone who started writing 30 years ago whose book is being launched by someone else who started writing 30 years ago? Because JB has lived, like any … Continue reading
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Tagged Avid Reader, books, How To Be a Writer, John Birmingham, writing, writing craft
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It’s Not About Shelving The Books and Keeping Kids Quiet
Some schools no longer have teacher-librarians and, the more I see of teacher-librarians, the less sense that makes to me. What’s next? No teachers? Kids turning up to the classroom each morning and inventing the day ahead? Maybe there’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged books, deep reading, librarians, reading, school libraries, teacher-librarians, teachers
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So Where Has All The Reading Gone?
I’m on the road at the moment with a book for younger people – 8-12-year-olds my publisher says, and they would know more about that than I do (though it already has some adult readers too). Like anything I write, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, distraction, entertainment, reading, reading habits, time poverty
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On to the ablogatory Part 5: Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
Source of book: second recommendation from Fiona Stager at Avid Reader in Brisbane on 29 Dec 2013 (again I paid RRP) Text below : new This is not the first book I’ve seen where someone in the publishing house has … Continue reading
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (Part 1)
I’m not a reviewer. Or, to be more precise, since school I have prepared only two pieces that could be called reviews of books, neither of them this century. One of them was of Rosie Scott’s Feral City in 1991. … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, objectivity, Perfect Skin, reading, reviewing
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New Adult – A Genuine Genre or a Too-thin Slice of a Shrinking Pie?
I can’t say who invented the notion of New Adult as a book genre, or what their intentions were. It’s easy to guess that their intentions might have been centred around something like, um, selling books, but perhaps they saw … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Cally Jackson, new adult, publishing, The Big Smoke, young adult
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I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff
In late 1997, Brisbane band Regurgitator followed up their debut album Tu-Plang with Unit. Tu-Plang had won them two ARIA awards and a nice shiny platinum disc for their walls, but they’d pushed their sound somewhere a little different – … Continue reading
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Tagged bands, books, creative careers, John Birmingham, nick earls, Regurgitator, Rolling Stone, Stephen Cummings
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