A Pictorial Report for World Book Night………..Day.

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After opening & filling in the details on all 24 books, I re-boxed them ready for the giving. Last year my daughter & I gave them together, but this being a week day (Monday) she had school and I had work. So we decided to separate, with her taking books to her school & I heading off to work with a bag load.

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This is the NorthGate Ward Community Centre, and was where I was based for the day, so it became the place for me to give away my books. Strangely in this picture it looks  dry and bright, this was a rare moment in the day as it bucketed down for  most of it, but luckily I was working in the office in the morning and in one of the rooms running a music session (Sound & Vision) all afternoon.

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But first an introduction to my give away, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Now I had read & posted on this book last year (my daughter has also read it). In my post on this I said…

This was a book I had expected to dislike, it seemed to be not sure if it were a book for adults or proudly YA, like a teenager caught in a netherworld between these two points the book was fluctuating between both axis and yet…. I loved it. I read it because it is one of the books for World Book Night and I needed a book that my daughter and I could both get behind, both support with an understanding of it’s content (if asked by others). Did I say I loved it, that I have a queue of colleagues wanting to borrow this on the strength of my vocal adoration of it. This is a book about the power of language, of words and how they may appear inert, merely tools for our use to be put away when not needed, but in reality they have the power to change all. The rest of this post is here

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This is a group of my colleagues, who were some of the early, lucky owners of this wonderful book and on the strength of receiving it, they will read it together as a relaxed book club.

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This is Nick, and as you can see he was another receiver of the WBN book, proudly displaying it for my pictorial post.

***********************************************************************And finally this is Maria, who has promised to read and finish this as part of World Book Night. I haven’t yet managed to give away all the books in person, although they all have a home marked for them with some more going with my daughter to her guides meeting and to my wife's Knit & Chat Group, & the final ones to some individuals at another community hub I work at.

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This is Barbara, who is based at Thannington resource Centre, the other hub I run some of my sessions at. when i originally read this book, she was one of my colleagues who expressed  an interest in The Book Thief. Making her now a extremely happy recipient of her own WBN copy.

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This is the second year that my daughter and I have done this & have thoroughly enjoyed it, and were filled with pride by the act of presenting strangers, colleagues etc., with something they would not have normally reached for. So my thanks go to the World Book Night organisation for providing me with this opportunity and as I said last year My one proviso, is that although this is World Book Night, it’s really only UK & Ireland,( now Germany & USA), whether this will grow and really become a world book night I don’t know, but I qualify my doubt by saying if I convinced a couple of people to read something they wouldn’t normally read, that’s a result.

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“We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything, in the landscape, in the skies, in the faces of others, and, of course, in the images and words that our species create”. This most human of creative activities defines us, that at the core we are “Reading Animals” intent on reading our own lives and those of others”. Alberto Manguel  – A Reader on Reading.