RussellEbertHandball
Flick pass expert
Hi, guys
This is me:
When I start feeling comfortable doing small commentaries, I will do some in English as well.
Maybe on footy, instead of political theory!
You need to get a bigger bookcase to add to the gravitas of your commentaries.
In May 2020 the SMH did a story about what people have on their bookshelves in the background after everyone was being interviewed on Tv on zoom, and people had to do zoom meetings.
Journalist Gideon Haigh started as a general journalist then became a business writer, then sports but the last 25 years has been a full time cricket writer, writing for publications all around the world. Thinks its over 70 publications. His main articles are on Saturday for the Weekend Australian. He has written about 50 books, probably 30-35 about cricket the rest about business and general society and history.
IMO he had the most impressive bookcase(s) from his study on zoom I saw back then, from people all around the world, and over the pandemic in general.
Most of the books are cricket books, but plenty of others as well. The yellow ones you see above his head are the Bible of cricket, Wisden Cricket Almanack (sic) an English publication that has all the info on every English cricket season in depth and from around the world, going back to 1864. He was born in London, so supports England, grew up in Geelong so barracks for Geelong.
Our home libraries are having a moment in the spotlight
This strange new era of constant video calls has thrown the humble bookshelf into primetime prominence.
www.smh.com.au
Meanwhile, author and cricket journalist Gideon Haigh says he's "a pretty analogue kind of guy" and requires his 10-year-old daughter's help to navigate Zoom calls. But what he lacks in tech literacy he makes up for in actual literature, with an entire room of floor-to-ceiling walls of books.
Each wall has its own category, and the cricket wall features a distinctive yellow strip of Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, better known as the 'Bible of cricket'. Haigh says in 2012 a removalist told him his book collection weighed five tonnes.