About
I like makerspaces, libraries, and the digital humanities.
I work at Curtin University Library in Perth, Western Australia, as a Learning Coordinator.
Blog
My posts aim to be of interest to librarians, educators and researchers working in the tertiary education sector.
I haven’t written anything for a while, but hoping to get back to blogging regularly some day soon.
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Books 2020
One of my goals this year is to read 52 books in 52 weeks
- The Healing Power of Mindfulness, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
- Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, by JK Rowling
- Gut, by Guilia Enders
- The Cuckoo’s Calling: Cormoran Strike, Book 1 by Robert Gailbraith
- The Brain: The story of you, by Brian Eagleton
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, by JK Rowling
- The Power of Vulnerability, by Brene Brown
- Dare to Lead, by Brene Brown
- That Deadman Dance, by Kim Scott
- Rilke: Selected Poems, trans by Stephen Mitchell
- Age of Revolution, by Eric Hobsbawm
- London Fields, by Martin Amis
- Fortunately, the Milk, by Neil Gaiman
- The Museum of Modern Love, by Heather Rose
- Phosopheresence, by Julia Baird
- The Last Painting of Sara De Vos, by Dominic Smith
- The End of October, by Lawrence Wright
- Buddhism for Busy People, by David Michie
- The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey
- The Yield, by Tara June Winch
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions, by Stephen Hawking
- Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
- Taboo, by Kim Scott
- The Bullet Journal, by Ryder Carroll
- The Boy on the Bridge, by MR Carey
- How to Lead a Quest, by Jason Fox
- Once More With Feeling, by Ceridwen Dovey
- True Stories, Helen Garner
- The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
- The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
- Another Now, Yanis Varoufakis
- The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
Books I’d like to read
- Building a better vocabulary, by Kevin Flanigan
- Sand Talk, by Tyson Yunkaporta
- Girt, by David Hunt
- Being Arab, by Samir Kassir
- The Absolute Book, by Elizabeth Knox
- Actress, by Anne Enright
- A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
- Walden, Thoreau
- We Should all be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
Projects
Cherry Gertzel Legacy site
My late friend Prof. Cherry Gertzel (1928 – 2015) was an internationally recognised Australian scholar of the history and politics of East Africa. I am a trustee and administrator of the Cherry Gertzel Bursary Fund and am currently creating an inventory of Prof. Gertzel’s extensive collection of books, reports, research and archival material. More information is at cherrygertzel.net