BACA - The Reading Room & Cafe

29/11/2024

Kami akan berada di Artisan Market, Laman Kesidang (Dynaton), Temerloh pada hari Ahad ini dari jam 9 pagi hingga 2 petang! Moh le weh!

30/10/2024

We will be at Kedai Kesidang, Dynaton Temerloh, on Deepavali Day 9am - 2pm. Bring your reading cap on.

27/10/2024

Kami dah ada di Laman Kesidang..jom!

26/10/2024

Artisan Market 2.0 tomorrow Sunday 27 October 2024 9am - 2pm @ Laman Kesidang, Dynaton Temerloh. We will be there, so come and check out your reads!

24/10/2024

Jemput ke Artisan Market di Laman Kesidang, Dynaton Temerloh pada hari Ahad ini jam 9pagi - 2 petang!
Buku apa yang anda cari? Marilah ke ruang BACA - The Reading Room!

05/10/2024

Kami akan ke Artisan Market Temerloh 1.0 pada hari esok, Ahad, 6/10/2024 di Laman Kesidang, Dynaton Bukit Angin, Temerloh dari jam 9pagi hingga 2 petang. Jemput datang beramai-ramai, beri sokongan kepada para artisan kreatif Temerloh dan sambil tu, beli buku! ❤️

15/06/2023

Reading a physical book is far more meaningful than reading through an electronic gadget. Chuck that gadget and grab a proper book! You’ll save yourself and your children from the devastating effects of blue light and dopamine.

02/06/2023

There was this one talk at the KL International Book Fair on 1 June 2023 which we felt very relevant. Will there still be bookstores in another 10 years? We are grappling with this question too as we ponder on whether to open our doors again to the public soon. As some of our followers had noticed, we had stopped accepting entry into our bookstore, and currently only utilising it as an online booksales storage centre. Many have asked us, when will we reopen? We ask ourselves whether the people who come will continue to read books or will we be merely a place for people to snap photos for the sake of yet another photo to share on their social media accounts. We started the bookstore not only for sales but to see that the local folks are able to get their reading materials and are able to meet other likeminded book lovers. Our 7-year report shows that the trend of deep-reading is lessening dramatically with the inability of GenZ to focus on something long enough. The effect of gadgets, fast reactive actions, are already here. Real reading needs time, lots of imagination as you plod along and suitable reading areas to enjoy the moment. Today reading for most people happens in a quick few seconds of looking up on the net or what passes through or pops up on their social media accounts. Real reading means slowing down and puts us in a calm situation, not a hurried one. Will we ever get this back, with the inventions of faster-than-yours coming up all the time now?

This brings us back to the talk yesterday - there was a man at the end of that session who said, bookstores will still be around forever. But as the speakers onstage lamented, the need to ‘keep up’ with the changing times are inevitable. Do you foresee the future? 😞

04/05/2023

03/05/2023

In 2000, in the pages of The New Yorker, Anthony Bourdain chronicled the chaos of a single Friday in the kitchen at Les Halles, in New York City—from an aspirin at 5:55 A.M., to a cold beer at 12:25 A.M. Revisit the essay, one of Bourdain’s earliest, right here: http://nyer.cm/dsP0dPK

30/04/2023

We’ve been around for a little more than 7 years now. It’s been an interesting journey. Shall we keep on going? Our aim when we started was meant to initiate good reading habits amongst the community in our small town of Temerloh. Have we succeeded? This remains unanswered but we painstakingly have to accept that the culture in this town has grown to be a makan and social media culture (even more after the covid19 pandemic lockdowns were over). The problem is bigger than we expected but accept it we must and think of other ways to help our people before the effect of lack of reading habitually consumes the future generation. It is a fact we loathe but must accept. Will Temerloh embrace the effects of ‘materialism and technology’ that the world around is fostering tightly? Who knows.