book owl book

I meant to post about this bookstore ages ago. But I have been distracted. It's a good place to kill an hour or two in the city. And with huge new digs, it just might take that long to walk past every old book and owl they have in store. They have a lot of books and owls.

The Antiquarian Bookstore. On Collins St. Upstairs from the even newer Lindt Chocolate store, which seems to be very popular.

I make stuff

Is the name of a 140 page full colour book by the editors of Hand Made Life, Ramona Barry and Beck Jobson. Containing images and interviews with 29 makers from around the world. Here's a peek into a page featuring one of my favourites, the stunning embroidery of Takashi Iwasaki. I can't wait to have a proper look at the launch on friday.

The book is available here, and soon here.

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace*.


I finally finished this mammoth book. For awhile there I thought I'd be reading it forever. I started it when we first got back so it has been 6 months, which is a record for me. I can finish a book in one or two nights if possessed.
I feared for awhile I wouldn't make it, or that I would suffocate under it, or drop it on my head, as I kept falling asleep after reading half a page and returning the next night confused. The irony is that now I have finished it, I want to read it again to find out what the hell happened.
Fool.
*That is a link to a heartbreaking story.

bookish & sleepy (reprise)

okay i know, but look! sleepclub we made a book and you can see it here...

i also made some jungle treasures and you can see them here...

also if you are in melbourne this evening you could come to the launch... drink some beer... 6:30 in scott alley... off flinders lane...

now, have to make some christmas parcels to send to my nephews... choclate fudge again?

bookish & sleepy

VIVA LA SLEEPCLUB

we have a booklaunch next tuesday

details at sleepclub HQ