DISTRACTIONS...
Not for me..actually who am I kidding...I have a million and one distractions. But this thought came about after Sunday, when I went to the Reading Matters Conference Public Day with some work pals. We went to two sessions at the State Library. Speculative Fiction with the panel of Jay Kristoff, Rachael Craw and Mariko Tamaki. Contemporary YA with the panel of AS King, Jennifer Niven and Lili Wilkinson. During the first panel, our lovely Miss H asked Jay a great question. He had been talking about going to a local newsagent when he was a boy, reading all the Stephen King novels, and hiding them so he could continue reading the next week. Miss H asked 'how do we get children such as yourself back into libraries' Jay's answer was ' I don't know. I grew up with a television with four channels. I didn't have all the distractions that kids have today.' And he's right. As a kid there was television, radio and that was about it. Perhaps one c...