Booktalk at Kew Library

Our final booktalk for the year will be at Kew Library at 2pm on 30th November.
If you need some holiday reading or maybe even some suggestions for books to buy as Christmas presents, come along to our booktalk and listen to staff talk about what their reading!

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Ashburton Library goes Vintage

Last week at Ashburton Library Nicole Jenkins came and talked about the glory and beauty of vintage clothing. Nicole runs the Circa Vintage clothing store in Fitzroy and has a great love for Australian vintage clothing from the 1920s to the 1970s.  It was a fabulous night.  Nicole is a great speaker and was very interactive with the audience.  It was a very girlie event and it was nice to see several mums with their adolescent daughters (in lovely gowns). Nicole brought along several garments for a show and tell; she knows a lot about the history of Australian vintage clothes from the 1920s onwards and the talk was very informative as well fun. Nicole describes herself as a recovery goth who tries to wear colour but ends up still wearing a lot of black.  She wrote the Wikipedia entry for shoulder pads as she knows everything about them and she loans her dresses to Alannah Hill!  Read her book Love Vintage by reserving on the library catalogue today. Below are some photos of the treasured outfits that the audience wore  on the night!

Nicole judged this lovely blue number our winner for the night!

Heirloom Vegetable growing talk

On Thursday 17 November Simon Rickard will talk about growing heirloom vegies at Kew Library.

Simon Rickard is a passionate gardener and classical musician with a keen interest in heirloom fruits and vegetables.

He is best known as the former head gardener of the Digger’s Club, where he oversaw two of Australia’s best-known public gardens, Heronswood and the Garden of St Erth. 

More recently Simon has been a kitchen gardener, growing bespoke produce for Annie Smithers’ Bistrot in Kyneton, Victoria, and as a botanical guide for Botanica World Discoveries.  He has lectured and held masterclasses for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, the University of Melbourne and many local horticultural societies. He has contributed to Your Garden and ABC Organic Gardener magazines and made several appearances on radio and television, most notably on ABC television’s Gardening Australia. In 2011, CSIRO published his book The New Ornamental Garden.

This session is free but bookings are essential.

Booktalk highlighted some great books!

At Ashburton Library last week three fabulous staff members recommended the books they have been reading lately.  Here are their books if you missed the talk.

Myra

BYRSKI, LIZ. Last chance cafe

DRAYSON, NICHOLAS A guide to the birds of East Africa: a novel

DASHNER, JAMES The maze runner

EVANS, TESS Book of lost threads

ST LEON, MARK Circus: the Australian story

Clare

TRUMBO, DALTON  Johnny got his gun

Edgar, JIM Bad cat

Katz, BARRY Practical green remodeling : down-to-earth solutions for everyday homes

SAMBROOK, Clare Hide & Seek

Liz

GRENVILLE, Kate Sarah Thornhill

Donoghue, EMMA Life Mask

DUNANT, Sarah Sacred Hearts

GOODMAN, Alison Eon

 

Our Story Summer Reading Program

As part of the National Year of Reading, eight books will be chosen by Australia that describe our country.  There is a shortlist of books for each state and territory and you can vote for the book that you think best represents your state.
You can vote in any of the Boroondara Library Branches or just vote online or join an online conversation at The Reading Room. 

The Victorian books are

Bearbrass by Roby Annear









The Comfort of Water by Maya Ward

Sold by Brendan Gullifer

Radical Melbourne by Jeff and Jill Sparrow

Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung

Well done those men by Barry Heard