I have just finished reading one of the saddest books I have had the dubious pleasure of reading (that I can remember, anyway). The Anatomy of Wings won Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and probably deservedly so. It is an accomplished piece but like other first books, can sometimes be too “wordy”, [...]
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Holidays are here in sunny Queensland and my pile of holiday borrowing awaits…As the semester closed, it kept increasing as I would find another book to add and then another, each time thinking that I had been saving this one for the hols and so on. As I look at them now, I see…
Killing Floor, [...]
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As we go around the shelves, tidying this and that, we stumble upon these old books. I am tlaking about books that look generally unloved. Their spines may be hard to read, the labels worn, the pages yellowed. the covers faded, etc. They have not been borrowed in some time. We pull them off as [...]
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Recently, Ruth at Skerricks posted about culling. This has been an ongoing mission of mine for the past 18 months. Not a week goes by that I do not put some books into a weeding pile for the staff to duly process. Many of the books get shipped off to some Pacific Island by the [...]
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This is not a happy tale. It is another tale of a dystopian future where kids are sacrificed in an arena-like battle to the death for the viewing pleasure of the citizens of the Capitol and the plebs back in the Districts. But it is more than this. It has a great female narrator, strong [...]
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I just returned from a Library 21 Workshop run by Education Queensland which was all very exciting. Lots of ideas about BER spending and plans but for us in a secondary library, that does not matter as much. Instead, we have to be content with thinking about ideas for refurbishment.
Many of the ideas presented [...]
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We have a number of assessment items where students are asked to discuss books and reading and the like. For some reason, some of them struggle. (Actually, the reason is that many of them just do not read or read much!)
Yesterday, the English faculty had one of their regular meetings but the focus this time [...]
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