How was your holiday? I’m sure your Seder was convivial and you looked absolutely fetching in your new Easter duds, but that’s not what I’m asking about. I mean World Book Day on April 23rd. Don’t tell me you didn’t celebrate, not with all the different things you could have done to take part. Like …
April 23 is Shakespeare’s Birthday, the International Day of the Book (and World Book Night!), and St. George’s Day. Author Carlos Ruiz Zafon first introduced me to the Catalan tradition of giving books on St. George’s Day (La Diada de Saint Jordi). Well, I went to a high school called St. George’s and my husband’s …
Next week, volunteers will take to the street on Wednesday April 23— with books. Over 25,000 official World Book Night givers will distribute free books to people in their communities– giving books to people “who don’t regularly read.” At shelters, at movie theaters, at malls, at hospitals, at homeless shelters, at grocery stores, and more, …
The sign-up for independent bookstores to be host stores for the next World Book Night is open from now through Dec. 31, 2013. The online registration form is being handled by the ABA, although ALL stores are welcome, not just ABA members. World Book Night and the American Booksellers Association want to make it easier than …
This Tuesday, April 23, is World Book Night. World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person. Each year on April 23, tens of thousands of people in the US go out into their communities and give a total of half a million free World Book Night …
For a long time, I’ve collected the bits and pieces of bookstore memories. In a white box with folded flaps, I’ve stuffed the stuff of approximately 4,800 days of Inklings life so far. Yesterday, I pulled it out and sat down in a sunbeam at my dining table for an afternoon of wonder, embarrassment, laughter and …
Congrats to the winners of our re-launch giveaways. Village Books denizen Al Clay won the stack of 14 World Book Night paperbacks. Kristen Becker, of Portland, won five titles from Hawthorne Books. Christi Crutchfield, of Portland, won Calyx Books’ package: an Ursula K. Le Guin broadside; a three-issue subscription to CALYX Journal and a copy of …
To help us kick off the new site, some of our favorite publishers are offering giveaways—and there’s such good stuff here! Click on the CALYX ad and they’ll enter you to win a prize package that includes an Ursula K. Le Guin broadside, a three-issue subscription to CALYX Journal and a copy of their creative …
Today’s the day that 25,000 volunteers across the United States will hand out 500,000 free paperback books (Ireland and Germany and Britain—where a million books will be handed out—are also participating). “It’s like an intellectual Halloween, only better,” Anna Quindlen, World Book Night’s honorary chairwoman, told USA Today.
