The deception of collective nouns
Every now and then, humorous word lists will be circulated on the internet via social media and email, listing wild and hilarious collective nouns...
Fool me once…
Every April we kick off the month by approaching everything we read online or in the paper with a healthy dose of scepticism. April...
Behind the Shelves: The Mothership
In Western Australia, Public Libraries are run by Local Governments, with many small Shires only having the one library (like us in Chittering), and...
Keep talking wordy to me…
It’s been a while since I did a column about awesome words and I’m sure you’ve missed them as much as I have. If...
Book Review – Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett, narrated by...
I’m one of those people who are morbidly fascinated with all things disaster. From tsunamis, tornados, and nuclear war, to plagues, earthquakes, and meteor...
The history of fanfiction
When I speak to people about fanfiction, a lot of the time they dismiss it as being something that only angsty teenage girls read...
Battle of the Books – audio vs text
We’ve spoken before about ‘real’ books vs eBooks but there’s another highly volatile topic out there that sets reader against reader – is listening...
National Novel Writing Month
November is one of those months where not much happens. There’s no school holidays, Christmas panic has yet to kick in, and even the...
Tech Taster Pilot
For any parent who has recently looked into the WA school curriculum, you may have noticed something a little different to what we studied...
Tis the season to be reading
I’m pretty sure that the last time I blinked it was only January but here we are, another year almost at an end, and...
Vital questions
It’s well known that libraries have evolved over the years; we’re not ‘just books’ now, but social and community hubs, with a wide range...
The romance of reading
February is the month of love. Not just for libraries – though it is Library Lovers’ Month – but it’s also that time of...
