I recently watched Baz luhrmann’s film adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’, the lavish award winning production of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic which explores the subjects of idealism, self-indulgence, the struggle to change, excess and social disorder, generating a portrait of the’ The Roaring Twenties and ‘The Age of Jazz’ and that has been defined as […]
Home Libraries – Organising Your Book Collection
Once you have decided on the room/s for your home library / book collection it is preferable to break down your collection into categories, and it seems that we do this in many different ways. Chronological order: organized by time line, which can be either with most recent at the beginning and going back in […]
Home Libraries – Caring for Your Book Collection
Although it appears to have finally stopped raining in Sydney, the recent moisture levels have not been kind to our book collections or our home libraries. In 1880 William Blades, author of The enemies of books, wrote “Treat books as you should your own children, who are sure to sicken if confined in an atmosphere […]
Talking About Books – Now Isn’t That Nice!
Talking About Books – Now Isn’t That Nice! Many years ago I read a book by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The absurdist classic ‘Slaughterhouse Five’. It has a narrative that combines autobiography and time travelling aliens, highlighting the absurdities of war. It had a profound effect on me. A few years later I heard him interviewed […]
