Australian libraries and library associations are behind a campaign to turn 2012 into the National Year of Reading, NYOR, linking together all the great things that are already happening around books, reading and literacy, and giving them an extra boost, with fun programs and activities taking place across the country.
Upcoming events listed on the website Love2Read include World Book Day on 3 March, and World Read Aloud Day on 9 March.
And here at MYSTERIES in PARADISE we'll be doing our little bit throughout the year, because we all agree that reading is so important.
One of the websites associated with NYOR opens with some sobering thoughts:
Nearly half the population struggles without the literacy skills to meet the most basic demands of everyday life and work. There are 46% of Australians who can't read newspapers; follow a recipe; make sense of timetables, or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.He doesn't write crime fiction but I really enjoyed his account of growing up in rural Australia, which seemed to have so much in common with my own experience. My review: A MAN'S GOT TO HAVE A HOBBY
Kerrie - Thanks for sharing this. It's such an important undertaking, and I'm very glad to know about it.
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