Yesterday was #WorldBookDay. I missed posting about it b/c I was preparing for a class discussion on #Morrison's #Beloved, a book I've read & taught many times. It always brings me to my knees (& tears). The students were blown away & we had such a good conversation about the names in the book, representations of the body (Baby Suggs speaks about loving one's body even as we read about it flying apart at the seams), & #aesthetics - the lyrical beauty of the narrator's voice.
happy #worldbookday. if your cute local indie bookstore isn't worker owned or union or otherwise forced to pay its employees a living wage, it's running on exploiting the passion of people who love books and reading without adequately compensating them. "support indie bookstores" is completely hollow
Today is World Book Day. If you've always wanted to write a novel but never known where to start (or you've started and stopped more times than you can count), be inspired by Justin Taylor's story for LitHub, an apology for why it took him a decade to finish his new book, "Reboot." "I started it on New Year’s Day 2014 and the first thing I did was write longhand for a week. The second thing I did was fail for seven years," he writes.
1 - England Today by the Portuguese Historian Oliveira Martins (a limited edition), a collection of travel letters about England (London, mostly?) originally published in a newspaper from Brasil in 1892, which I'm most curious about.
2 - A Portuguese translation of Jane Eyre
3 - The Halloween Tree by Bradbury translated as The Sacred Tree part of the #ColecçãoArgonauta that was published in Portugal more or less as a similar collection as #ColecçãoVampiro but for science fiction works
4 - Two volumes titled Facts, Persons, and Books. A collection of previously published (1953 - 1961) articles about literary genres, authors, language, translation, and other book related subjects
5 - A manual that teaches the process of bookbinding
From the @edfoc blog #IWD2024 and #WorldBookDay
A celebration of International Women’s Day and World Book Day https://edfoc.org.uk/2024/03/08/iwd2024-and-worldbookday/
As today is International Women’s Day and yesterday was World Book Day, we thought we would celebrate some of the fantastic women who have been a part of the festival over the years with a book grid.
I already love the Libby library app and use it to borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. But I somehow only just realised that I can also use it to borrow digital #comics too 🤩 This feels like an appropriate revelation for #WorldBookDay
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
Philip Pullman
It’s World Book Day and I am reminded of the need for a good read. This photograph was thrown up by my ‘phone this morning. I can remember the day and the time. It could be the start of a good story…
#WorldBookDay it is. As a reminder to all of you buying too many books to actually read: relax. There are more ways to do well with books. Like St. Boniface, a fan of impaling books to impress fellow Christians.