Neil Gaiman and Libraries
Jun. 26th, 2010 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mymatedave10I've just been scrolling through my Livejournal friends list, and Neil Gaiman's blog came up and I found out he won the Carnegie award for Children's Literature for The Graveyard Book, which is a great read.
Elsewhere on his blog are links to his acceptance speech and interviews he's done where he talks about the importance of Libraries to himself and young people in general. I can currently afford to buy books thanks to my job, but due to the financial situation with the public sector in England, my pay packet looks like its going to be frozen for a year or two.
I learned to read from comic books, mostly the Beano and Dandy, but from the age of 6 or 7 I was a regular attendee of my local Library, that's where I got my love for books, that's where I discovered writers like Neil Gaiman himself, Terry Pratchet, Douglas Adams, Philip K. Dick, Tom Holt and many others.
I don't read as much as I used to, thanks of course to the internet, but I love Libraries and always feel happy and safe in them this why any attack on them must be fought back with determined strength. In times of austerity, if that's what we must call this situation we find ourselves in, Libraries are even more important and they must be defended from cuts in spending.
Elsewhere on his blog are links to his acceptance speech and interviews he's done where he talks about the importance of Libraries to himself and young people in general. I can currently afford to buy books thanks to my job, but due to the financial situation with the public sector in England, my pay packet looks like its going to be frozen for a year or two.
I learned to read from comic books, mostly the Beano and Dandy, but from the age of 6 or 7 I was a regular attendee of my local Library, that's where I got my love for books, that's where I discovered writers like Neil Gaiman himself, Terry Pratchet, Douglas Adams, Philip K. Dick, Tom Holt and many others.
I don't read as much as I used to, thanks of course to the internet, but I love Libraries and always feel happy and safe in them this why any attack on them must be fought back with determined strength. In times of austerity, if that's what we must call this situation we find ourselves in, Libraries are even more important and they must be defended from cuts in spending.
