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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen

What's your favourite opening sentence to a book?

The editors of American Book Review have chosen their 100 Best First Lines from Novels.

You can also skip straight to the last page and read their 100 Best Last Lines from Novels… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on January 21, 2010 at 12:29 — No Comments

Mosman's most borrowed books of 2009

Over at Parra Reads, Parramatta City Libraries have listed their most borrowed adult fiction and non-fiction for 2009.

Here's our list of most borrowed books for the… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on December 21, 2009 at 8:30 — No Comments

Self-portrait with book

Karin Elizabeth is a Dutch reader with a unique approach to reviewing books. A freelance photographer, she composes a picture of herself with each book she reads. Take a look at her photo set (and reviews) on Flickr.

Karin calls it a 'self-portraiting book review series' and… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on November 26, 2009 at 8:00 — No Comments

The Critterati

The New Yorker asked its readers to submit a photo of their dog, cat, or other (nonhuman) animal dressed as a literary character.

This entry - NINKA AND KALI AS SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR AND M. SARTRE - was from ezcollins: "They were inseparable; but it was clear their bond was much more intellectual than physical."…

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Added by Mosman Library on November 17, 2009 at 8:00 — No Comments

The Final Draft

Food for your brain - a weekly half-hour of browsing and grazing in the world of books and writing from Radio 2SER FM, Sydney. Listen to a show or subscribe to the podcast at finaldraft.podomatic.com

One of the longest-running books shows on Australian radio, Final Draft is a space on the air where big names of arts and culture sit cheek-by-jowl… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on August 27, 2009 at 16:30 — No Comments

Full of FAIL

Via Meanjin here's a blog called Literary Rejections on Display - a vast public collection of real-life rejection.

Reading it will only make your day better.

Added by Mosman Library on August 13, 2009 at 18:11 — No Comments

How to cope with Monday mornings

Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds, according to new research.

And it works better and faster than other methods to calm frazzled nerves such as listening to music, going for a walk or settling down with a cup of tea, research found.

Psychologists believe this is because the human mind has to concentrate on reading and the distraction of being taken into a literary world… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on July 20, 2009 at 10:30 — No Comments

Win $100 worth of books in July

Jane Floyd won our Good Reading competition for June, and picked up $100 worth of books. Thanks Jane!

In July, we have another $100 book bag, this time for a Mosman Readers member who joins during the month. A name will be drawn at random from a book club bag.

Small… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on July 9, 2009 at 15:30 — No Comments

Getting kids reading & reading more

Saw a tweet from Courtney Johnson of the The National Library of N.Z. this morning... "Hate to sound like I'm pimping our work, but if you have kids & haven't seen our Create Readers blog, you're missing out"!

Create Readers is a blog about children's and YA literature (especially New Zealand), literacy research, and ways to get, and keep, kids reading.… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on June 19, 2009 at 10:00 — No Comments

Win $100 worth of books in June

Good Reading is a great Aussie monthly about books and authors. With your Mosman Library card, you have a free subscription to the online magazine.

Have a read and win!

Question: Which author does Good Reading profile in the article ‘Killing them softly’?

Hint: You can find this article on page 24 of the June magazine.

Email your answer to… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on June 2, 2009 at 11:11 — No Comments

Win $100 worth of books in May

Good Reading is a great Aussie monthly about books and authors. With your Mosman Library card, you have a free subscription to the online magazine.

Have a read and win!

Q. Which public figure does Good Reading interview about his favourite books in the May 2009 issue of the magazine?

Hint: You can find this interview on page… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on May 6, 2009 at 12:30 — No Comments

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: Vote for the 2009 People's Choice

The judges of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have selected these six titles as the best in new Australian fiction:

Breath - Tim Winton

Disquiet - Julia Leigh

The Spare Room - Helen Garner

The Good Parents - Joan London

A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

The Lieutenant - Kate Grenville

And now (if you live in NSW) you can… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on April 27, 2009 at 17:14 — No Comments

Now that's what I call a long overdue

Washington and Lee University has a missing library book back on its shelves — nearly 145 years (52,858 days) after it was stolen by a Union soldier during the Civil War.

The 1842 book, the first volume of W.F.P. Napier's four-volume History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, was returned recently by a friend of one of the soldier's descendants to the Lexington school's Leyburn… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on April 17, 2009 at 10:00 — No Comments

Mosman Readers go tweet

If you're on Twitter, follow @mosmanreaders to get real-time alerts of what's happening on Mosman Readers.

And if you're interested, here's what's happening in the background. We're sending our 'Latest Activity' feed to Yahoo! Pipes, where it gets a bit of regex work to make the titles more human-friendly. The output of the Pipe is checked by Twitterfeed every 30 minutes.… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on April 6, 2009 at 15:00 — 1 Comment

e-reading - it's coming

When Rebecca's bus broke down, she had to resort to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjiman Button on her iPhone.

"Instantly, I became an ereading convert..."

Added by Mosman Library on March 31, 2009 at 13:00 — 1 Comment

Librarian's book on British prize list

A LIBRARIAN whose "strange book" has not yet been published outside Australia has been longlisted for a new pound stg. 50,000 ($115,000) literary prize in Britain.

John Hughes joins a list that includes Naomi Klein and Pulitzer Prize-winner Alex Ross, to contest the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing, which will reward a book that tackles complex ideas in an accessible way.

Hughes's book, Someone Else, is a collection of fictional essays, written from the point of… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on November 21, 2008 at 7:00 — No Comments

2008 Children's Book of the Year winners announced

Looking for a book for your child or teen?

Take a look at the winners of the CBCA Book of the Year award.

The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a volunteer run, not for profit, organisation that was established in 1945 and is comprised of individual members who are passionate about children’s and young adult literature.

Added by Mosman Library on August 15, 2008 at 13:30 — No Comments

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