Tag Archives: reading

On Unplugging (At Least Sometimes)

Posted on 08/02/2018 by nickearls

Brisbane’s last walk-in video store is about to close. I can’t say I realised one was still open, but it’s not a bad time to pause and note the transience of an industry that started from nothing only 40 years … Continue reading →

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It’s Not About Shelving The Books and Keeping Kids Quiet

Posted on 21/09/2015 by nickearls

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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So Where Has All The Reading Gone?

Posted on 05/04/2015 by nickearls

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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On to the ablogatory Part 5: Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

Posted on 17/01/2014 by nickearls

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 →

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Reading Blogblurt Part 4: Abby Geni’s The Last Animal

Posted on 16/01/2014 by nickearls

Source of book: recommendation from Fiona Stager at Avid Reader in Brisbane on 29 Dec 2013 (this time I paid RRP) Text below : new I pay close attention to Amazon, but I must admit I don’t think I’ve bought … Continue reading →

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Reading Blogfrenzy Part 3: Philipp Meyer’s The Son

Posted on 15/01/2014 by nickearls

Source of book: surprise gift from my publisher in mid-2013, no strings attached Text below: second half of my Melbourne Writers Festival ‘Read Any Good Books Lately?’ piece The most recent novel I’ve read also makes it onto my list … Continue reading →

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Reading Blogathon Part 2: Wells Tower’s Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

Posted on 14/01/2014 by nickearls

Source of book: recommendation from Chris Currie at Avid Reader in Brisbane, book a gift from Avid for launching their Christmas catalogue in 2009 Text below: first half of my Melbourne Writers Festival ‘Read Any Good Books Lately?’ piece Every … Continue reading →

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (Part 1)

Posted on 13/01/2014 by nickearls

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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How We Read When We Read On Our iPads

Posted on 09/10/2012 by nickearls

Last December, Amazon sold around 5 million Kindle devices of one kind or another. (Remarkably, it seems that about a dozen or so of those devices still don’t have ebooks of mine on them, but that’s an issue for another … Continue reading →

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