Tonight is
World Book Night!
Are you
familiar with World Book Night? I've
blogged about it before--for the last two years, in fact. It truly is a world-wide event, designed to
encourage people to read--what else?--books!
To celebrate, for the third year in a row I will be giving away free
books to strangers, special editions published for the giveaway and sent to my
local bookstore for me to pick up and distribute.
The title
I'll be giving away this year is Agatha Christie's AFTER THE FUNERAL, a Hercule
Poirot mystery. But there are books of
many different genres to choose from, everything from CATCH 22 to KITCHEN
CONFIDENTIAL to Garrison Keillor's PONTOON to WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE in
regular and large print versions. There
are 38 titles in all.
Those of us
who requested to be givers got to designate our first and second choices among
the selections, and weren't guaranteed which we'd get. We also had to say why we wanted to
participate, and how we'd give books away.
What's the
purpose of all this? Well, we're to hand
out copies of books to people who don't like to read! The idea is to stoke some interest in books by
giving out freebies.
To apply, I
usually say I'll talk as much as possible to people who are glued to their
computers. Some of them are probably too
busy to read books. Of course they can
read them in e-versions instead, but they may be too busy with social media or
games or whatever to actually delve into a book.
For the third
year I'll do this in downtown Studio
City , California
How about
you--are you participating in World Book Night?
2 comments:
It sounds like fun, Linda. I'm celebrating by being on the Die Laughing Panel at the Buena Vista Branch of the Burbank library. I'm bringing along an ARC for a giveaway. Though I'm guessing that the people who come to the panel are already readers.
Wish I could make it to your panel, too, Betty. I hope it's a great one!
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