Category Archives: reading hacks
“Dr. Swiss” T-shirt from Threadless
“Dr. Swiss” – Pop Culture T-shirt by Steven Lefcourt.
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Watch Neil Gaiman read The graveyard book
Feel like reading Neil Gaiman’s wonderful, Newbery Award winning The graveyard book but too lazy to do so for yourself and feel that listening to an audio book doesn’t quite cut the mustard? Perhaps you would rather watch a video of Neil himself reading the books. Well, now you can. Head over to mousecircus, his site for young readers and you’ll find videos of Neil reading The graveyard book, chapter by chapter. While there, you can watch the Coraline movie … Continue reading
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A little bit of this & a little bit of that
I have a guest post up at Blurb it, a blog run by the Gold Coast City Library. It lists some of my favourite books of recent times and will be followed soon by a post of books I am looking forward to reading this year. For book lovers in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, Vetti has been posting about some of her local second hand bookstores here, and here. On the writing front, I recently read an article by Cory Doctorow … Continue reading
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Book themed cakes
Cake Wrecks blog has posted pictures of some beautiful book related cakes. Very hungry caterpillar, Where the wild things are, Dr Seuss, and others are all deliciously presented. [via abby the librarian]
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Tagged books, cakes, eric carle, maurice sendak, reading, very hungry caterpillar, where the wild things are
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Book themed pyjamas
Wondering what to buy for the reader who has everything? Get them from Peter Alexander. [seen at booktagger, via @twitofalili]