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will brady's ruminations
will brady's ruminations
2009-01-02
LITERACY
Four times a year it is Buy a Friend a Book Week [BAFAB]. One of those our weeks is in January.
Celebrating BAFAB is easy. Just get yourself to a real-life or virtual book store during Buy a Friend a Book Week (the first weeks of January, April, July, and October) and, well, buy a friend a book! But here's the fun part: you can't buy your friend a book because it's their birthday or they just graduated or got engaged or had a baby or anything else. You have to give them a book for no good reason. In fact, this present out of the blue from you should shock the pants off of whomever you decide to give it to. And it'll make them happy. And that's the point: promote reading, promote friendships. Just make sure to let them know about Buy a Friend a Book Week, so they can spread the joy in turn. Find Out More
Four times a year it is Buy a Friend a Book Week [BAFAB]. One of those our weeks is in January. Celebrating BAFAB is easy. Just get yourself to a real-life or virtual book store during Buy a Friend a Book Week (the first weeks of January, April, July, and October) and, well, buy a friend a book! But here's the fun part: you can't buy your friend a book because it's their birthday or they just graduated or got engaged or had a baby or anything else. You have to give them a book for no good reason. In fact, this present out of the blue from you should shock the pants off of whomever you decide to give it to. And it'll make them happy. And that's the point: promote reading, promote friendships. Just make sure to let them know about Buy a Friend a Book Week, so they can spread the joy in turn. Find Out More
Labels: books, literacy, readling
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2007-11-20
reading
My sister sent me a picture of her new bookshelves. Serendipitously, it arrived the same day friend Pat enrolled me into Shelfari, a website that allows you to highlight the books you like the most.
Mind you, I don't doubt that it is a clever marketing tool for booksellers, but that is one kind of merchant - and practice - that I encourage. Literacy has for far too long been under-rated. Here's a way to support it.
We need to re-establish a keen interest in learning, and not just in having it done by people rushing to Google for something the read. Instilling a spirit of inquiry means exposing ourselves to a vast range of ideas and beliefs; creative conjectures, as well as dark, troubling opinions. Reading helps do this.
For what it's worth, here's a link to my book list >>>
Will's favorite books. I havent put up tomes I find disturbing. Maybe I ought to. Though I don't know why; any rabid neo-con website will have stuff that shivers my soul, and there are plenty of those sites available already. Just look at Faux News. ¶ 10:04 0 comments
My sister sent me a picture of her new bookshelves. Serendipitously, it arrived the same day friend Pat enrolled me into Shelfari, a website that allows you to highlight the books you like the most.Mind you, I don't doubt that it is a clever marketing tool for booksellers, but that is one kind of merchant - and practice - that I encourage. Literacy has for far too long been under-rated. Here's a way to support it.
We need to re-establish a keen interest in learning, and not just in having it done by people rushing to Google for something the read. Instilling a spirit of inquiry means exposing ourselves to a vast range of ideas and beliefs; creative conjectures, as well as dark, troubling opinions. Reading helps do this.
For what it's worth, here's a link to my book list >>>
Will's favorite books. I havent put up tomes I find disturbing. Maybe I ought to. Though I don't know why; any rabid neo-con website will have stuff that shivers my soul, and there are plenty of those sites available already. Just look at Faux News. ¶ 10:04 0 comments
