To celebrate Book Week this week, the Independent asked some of Greater Geelong’s librarians and bookshop staff to share their passion for reading.
Laura Farrington, Children’s & Youth Services Librarian, Geelong Regional Libraries (visit Laura at Newcomb Library)
What are you currently reading?
Slayer by Kiersten White. Set in the future of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Universe, where slayers are still being discovered and watchers are still training them. The Buffy universe changed my life and who didn’t want to be a librarian like Giles?
Favourite childhood book?
The entire Famous Five Series by Enid Blyton. My dad would read them out loud to me at bedtime, and I would pretend I couldn’t read chapter books yet so he would read me just one more chapter.
Favourite book of all time?
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey. The story of Menolly destined to be a Harper on a colonised planet in the distant future, she struggles against the archaic rule that only men can be musicians, and after running away she becomes a faux mother to a brood of baby dragons, insert angst and world building here, and becomes a musician in the harper hall.
