So, I got a nice message from Dymocks the other day offering me Kerry Greenwood’s Cocaine Blues in paperback for AU $22.99. Nice price for a paperback in Australia (although I would need to add on some extra for postage). Maybe when I am back in Sydney later this month I could pick up a [...]
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Whilst I was reading Beatrix Bulstrode’s A Tour in Mongolia I recalled that there was one of the Capt. W.E. Johns’ Biggles stories set in and around parts of the Gobi. I also have the vaguest memory of having seen that book, perhaps even reading it when I was a youngster. I will need [...] Reader’s will know I have a strong attachment to Mongolia so look for opportunities to promote the country and to dispel some of the false impressions we may have of Mongolia and the Mongols from our upbringing and reading such historical source material as W.E. Johns’ Biggles books. I do from time to time [...] In another “well duh” article, last week the Sydney Morning Herald ran a piece on Showrooming trend worries booksellers. Apparently folks with smart phones will wander around a bookstore in the lunch hour browsing the titles on the shelf. When they see one that sounds interesting, they take a photo of the page showing the [...] A while back Doug lent me a book, Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy’s Own Story of Imaginary Combat written by Harry Pearson. I’d kept the book with me but hadn’t really bothered to start to read it as there was always something else to read on my eBook reader. The battery went flat on a [...] Last night I was watching Newsline on the Australia Network and a piece came on about Alice Pung. Alice Pung is a writer, lawyer and teacher and her last book, Her Father’s Daughter, tells the story of her father, a survivor of Cambodia’s Killing Fields and her cultural awakening. Pung was born and raised in [...] I was looking for a eBook today at lunch and as I had just had a nice email from the folks at Border’s in Australia telling me that Border’s online was ongoing, business as usual, while the stores sank with no buyers for them, I thought I’d look for a book there. I came [...]  thomo the lost posted this in  Ancient, Books, History, Naval, Osprey, Wargaming on  December 20th, 2010I’d just left for a trip overseas when my partner mentioned that there was a parcel for me at the post office. She collected and told me it was a book. I knew then it was the Osprey Publishing Campaign number 222. I’d received an email from the author, William Shepherd, promising me a [...]  Tags: ancient, athens, Books, greece, History, Naval, persia, Reviews, trireme | 
3 people had their say - be the next! |  Print This Post |  Email This Post |  Australians can now use ther iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as a serious e-book reader after Apple opened the doors to its iBookstore today via iBookstore Australia Launch: iBookstore Opens In Australia | Apple. This is what Asher Moses wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald of 3 November 2010. What a dumb statement! I am [...] A parcel arrived on the desk this morning. I love it when that happens. This one was from the nice folks at On Matters Military. I had ordered a copy of the DBMM version 2.0 rules (yes, I am still thinking of playing at Cancon in January 2011) as well as the DBMM Book 1 [...] Tags: Books, DBMM, Naval History, rules, Wargames |
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