Reading “A beginner’s guide to Australian crime” by Aurelia Orr, a bookseller at Readings Kids. This is an excellent guide, covering every title one needs to know about contemporary Australian crime fiction and true crime, and for both adult and young (teenage and middle-grade) readers.
There is always danger reading this sort of thing, to which I subscribe aplenty – newsletters from publishers, libraries, government, public and private arts and literary organisations and groups, and online and brick-and-mortar bookstores, newspapers, magazines and journals. I try to avoid information overload, but my TBR list still ends up doubling and even tripling in size every time I read these e-newsletters. It always leaves me lamenting how I lack time and energy to read everything I want to read.
Which reminds me of an article I read yesterday from CNN Underscored: “I asked 10 bookworms how to read more in 2025, and here’s what they said” aka “How to read more in 2025 plus the products that will help”. Do you really need all the cutting-edge, pricy and fashionable gadgets to help you read more? My answer is No.
You read what you want to read whenever you can. More importantly, trying to read more for a show – or to stay on top of all the bestselling lists, GoodReads challenges and BookTok/Bookstagram/BookTube hypes – is simply useless. You only need to read for yourself, for pleasure, whenever, however and whatever you want to.
(Image thanks to: The Woman in the Library (2022) by Australian author Sulari Gentill. Every time I look at this title and its cover, the “perils” as a reader come to mind. 🙂
(Day 59 #WarmWinterRead #WWR25 via @librarieschangelives)
Voices under the Sun 陽光下的聲音 