Monthly Archives: August 2012

Where Do You Love2Read?

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Librarians with Altitude

The Blue Mountains Library staff recently made this fun video about the places we Love2Read (with photos taken by John Merriman). What about you – where do you Love2Read? We’d love to know – please tell us in the comments section below!     … Continue reading →

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Starting Your Own Book Group

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Librarians with Altitude

On Saturday 25th August we held a Book Group Information Session at Springwood Library to help people get enough information to feel confident enough to approach a few friends to talk about starting a book group. If you missed it, … Continue reading →

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What Library staff are reading . . .

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Librarians with Altitude

Missus by Ruth Park – Missus was the last written in Ruth Park‘s Harp in the South trilogy, but is the first in terms of chronology. The first two novels, Harp in the South and Poor man’s orange, were published in 1948 … Continue reading →

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#NYR12 Twitter Night – August

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Librarians with Altitude

This month we have been encouraged to Question in the Love2Read / National Year of Reading monthly themes. Have you done that? Have you read something that made you question your previous assumptions or beliefs, have you found answers to … Continue reading →

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Whoooppee!

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Librarians with Altitude

Any other fans of Thomas Cromwell out there? I’m very excited to hear (via The Bookseller + Publisher) that Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winner, Wolf Hall, is to beturned into a BBC2 costume drama by the man who brought Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, … Continue reading →

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Wretched Writers Welcome – The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2012

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Librarians with Altitude

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene … Continue reading →

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