Hopeless about posting at the moment (RL, RL, RL) but I absolutely had to dive in and share this.
There are many reasons why Neil Gaiman is one of my cultural heroes. Here, in an edited version (of a lecture he gave in London on Monday night for The Reading Agency) is yet another...
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
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I want that read at my funeral. What a speech.
I worry terribly about the school library where I work. I've built it up from nothing over ten years and now i feel it's time to retire - I get ill all the time in winter because it's in a freezing reception area and there's so much exposure to infection, but I just feel I can't give up doing something so important. I probably feel I'm irreplaceable and of course I'm not.
Feeling a bit vulnerable anyway right now - daughter is ill at uni, probably glandular fever (she's waiting for the test result) and I'm fighting the desire just to scoop her up, bring her home and fuss over her...
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Just expressing sympathy - I felt the same when my daughter was a second year and developed shingles - for a variety of reasons, including the need for a sea-crossing or flight, I simply couldn't scoop her up. But she did survive. However a little 'babying' from afar didn't go amiss.
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ETA: And v sorry to hear about daughter - rotten if it is GF. So easy at university to work and play too hard, not look after yourself and get run down...
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