Geoff and I have spent the last few days in Bendigo, staying at the lovely Langley Hall. After and between exploring where Geoff spent a good bit of his primary years and early teens, we had some space for catching up on the the volume of reading to be done for the next while. I [...]
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A couple of mistakes
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on January 6, 2009
http://allsaidanddone.com/2009/01/06/a-couple-of-mistakes/
Tracking reads
Had very nice lunch out with Sam and while we were wandering, managed to bungle a few op-shops. I naturally found myself some books. The Christmas Books-Volume Two by Charles Dickens (includes: The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man) and a very nice new-looking copy of The Map That [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on November 21, 2008
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/11/21/tracking-reads/
How to be a Graphic Designer without losing your soul
“The biggest problem designers face is fear; fear of clients, fear of failure, fear of ideas. Our ability to overcome fear is perhaps the greatest skill we can acquire. Most bad design, most mediocre design, is a consequence of fear. Clients are frightened, designers are frightened; audiences are frightened. The modern world of commerce runs [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on October 18, 2008
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/10/18/how-to-be-a-graphic-designer-without-losing-your-soul/
Everybody wants to go to Heaven
Mike Hogan and David Crowder’s book Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die was a lovely surprise. I found it randomly one day on sale (so bought it)- didn’t even know the man had written a book or two despite loving his music for quite a while. It is a really [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on July 27, 2008
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/07/27/everybody-wants-to-go-to-heaven/
Beautiful Confusion
I like the odd challenging book once in a while. Last night I started One Hundred Years of Solitude. It’s a novel by Nobel Prize winning, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and translated from Spanish. Currently I’m amiss as to what is going on with each particular character as they all have names that blend into one, [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on June 18, 2008
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/06/18/beautiful-confusion/
