Books and bookstores, you can’t love one without the other! Tbe American Booksellers Association has designated the last Saturday in April as Independent Bookstore Day. Of course, I always joke about how I would embrace any excuse to buy books, but in all seriousness, we need to be supporting independent bookstores more. Don’t get me […]
You will have to excuse me. People who know me well know I love celebrating anything about books. Put another way – I find any excuses satisfactory to go out and buy books so I may add them to the list of unfinished books I am struggling to read. However, World Book & Copyright Day […]
It is somewhat fun for days of celebration to return each year. I believe I learned about the National or International Book Lovers Day last year. It would appear, I then set a calendar reminder, when to read tens of books, buy dozens more and add about a 100 or more to my evergrowing lists […]
How bold is it to write about the birthday of a great writer? Definitely one of the best in generations, and perhaps the greatest of this generation? I am sure Stephen King will never read this, so I feel it is not so bold. For any lover of literature, books, stories, especially fantasy, Stephen King […]
I say the title is slightly misleading since the day is observed internationally and is not beholden to any one nation. Ugly image, yes, but it is late, and I need to go, but not without posting that I did go to Barnes and Noble and pick up a few wonderful books. Here is one […]
NOTE: I link to a lot of sites. I am not an affiliate (at least until now) and make no money whatsoever. Bookstores, ones with bricks and otherwise, all need support, or it will be very hard to find things to read. As a teenager, several moons ago, I absolutely, inexorably fell in passionate love […]
Of course, the hackneyed expression would be that every day is book lover’s day. Cliched, of course, but if you are like me and surrounded by books everywhere – at home, at work and even in the car, well every day is most definitely a book lover’s day. Yet, I suppose it is a […]
April 23rd is World Book Day (not to be confused with Book Lover’s Day), something that UNESCO did after an event was held to celebrate Miguel De Cervantes of the Don Quixote fame (link below). Of course, any excuse would do for me, to buy books, and many times none is needed at all! […]
I love everything about books. I learned about LibraryThing a while ago, and while I have forgotten more about the books I have read than I can remember, I have slowly started cataloging books on the site. And since they had a limit of 200 books for free membership, I was happy to pay $20 […]
It wasn’t until I was 21 that I learned about Stephen King. Watching the ’80s miniseries in the holiday season of 2001, on SciFi (yes, dating myself quaintly aren’t I!), I became an instant fan. That said, the rambling paper pantheons he built, like many a spider from his own book made it hard […]
