'Everybody loves Chocolate Cake - especially the kind you make and mix right in your own kitchen. Bake at least one
Make this delicious Chocolate Cake a week and I keep the family happy...'

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Cadbury's Bournville Cocoa. Australian Home Journal, 1961.

At The Haruki Murakami Library/Waseda International House of Literature. They currently have a Kafka exhibition with original drawings.

A couple of nice finds today. The ‘Turbo Fox’ (Tandy, c.1987) is pure nostalgia. #Blackie ⁦Richard Overell⁩

The newest additions to my library.

I’m not a “Toy Guy” but all these Mego Planet of the Apes figures were in a bag for $40 so I had to grab them.

A couple of nice finds today. The ‘Turbo Fox’ (Tandy, c.1987) is pure nostalgia. #Blackie ⁦Richard Overell⁩

On the cataloging truck today is the 2 volume set 'Premier et second thome des histoires tragiques,' published in 1568. The 19th-century crimson morocco binding by Chambolle-Duru is stunning! The supra-libros of Isidoro Fernandez are embossed in gold on the covers. #16thCentury

Recent $1 find at a library sale in Vineland NJ, cult classick from Beat icon Burroughs! 💉❤️🩸

Not quite #PaperbacksfromHell but still…

“…there could never be an end to the rescue of men from the rubble of their ideas.”

Playing catch-up here to say that I’ve been humbled by how good Riders in the Chariot is, though it has been no surprise. Patrick White is one of the pinnacles, I’m learning.

Tick tock! You only have two months left to see the crime fiction treasures inside the Murder By The Book exhibition at Cambridge University Library 📚🗡️

See unique 1st editions and writing implements from giants of the genre.

Free entry: lib.cam.ac.uk/murderbytheboo…

This is pure fun, a glorious too short countdown to the confluence of two key events, an astronomer’s probable loss of sight and a possibly impending eclipse. It’s an absurd, heavenly romp of run-on sentences where Bernhard presides like the apogee he is. You’ll fly through it.

Whoever on here suggested keeping this gem on the bedside table, thank you. It’s been a lovely companion to many wake-ups and turning-ins. NYRB Classics

I think we can all agree that the real hero of Star Wars has always been...

My favourite moment in British television history.

I do love the reflection of ⁦Green Templeton College⁩ in what will be the ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ Humanities Library windows

Years ago, when I learned that the original lightsabers were such a simple effect, I wrapped some Scotchlite retroreflective tape around a stick and had someone take a Polaroid photo. The camera flash made the tape glow brightly. Voila!, my own lightsaber. Happy Star Wars Day!

35 cents for Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Bantam 1958 edition.

Ooooohhhhh YEAH, baby!
Italian #SFinTranslation from NYRB Classics

A beautiful old ruin near Eudunda.

Get your tickets for the next History Now event State Library of NSW!

Catharine Coleborne and James Dunk discuss the depth of historical writing about mental illness in Australia

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Dr Effie Karageorgos Jesse Adams Stein Australian Centre for Public History University of Newcastle