The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has decreed 2012 to be the National Year of Reading. As a librarian, reading is something I want to encourage. So, inspired by a friend of mines blog (Bookgirls Year of Challenges), this is my contribution to the cause (yes, I know I'm getting in early. But why only spend 2012 encouraging people to read?); where I talk about what I'm reading (and occasionally viewing and listening to).
So, where to start? How about, what do I like to read?
Answer: pretty much anything... within reason... It's sort of an occupational hazard with me, what with me working in a library!
I think my reading tastes have evolved over time. Recently I've been reading a lot of non-fiction, mostly biographies and true crime stories. Some of which, for example Bruce Guthrie's Man Bites Murdoch and Peter FitzSimons' Batavia were really good. Other's, which I won't name, didn't hold my interest and weren't worth the money (yes, I know it's weird that, considering where I work, I actually spend some of my own hard earned cash on BOOKS! But sometimes with new releases it quicker to buy them myself than wait for the suppliers to fill our orders. The downside is I've wasted a lot of money, but I digress). But now I'm turning my attention to fiction. No genre in particular (aside from my favorite authors), just whatever takes my fancy.
So that's what this is all about.
Now all I've got to do is read something.
