National Book Lover’s Day

August 9th is #NationalBookLoversDay, a day not only to relish in the act of reading a book, but to take a break from those multiple screens- your phone, social media, computer, television- (after work, of course) and dive nose deep into a real-life creation of paper and text.

 

Itโ€™s a day to celebrate all bibliophiles and that modicum of mystery that sparked many of todayโ€™s greatest minds’ dreams, goals, and imaginations. Books and storytelling continually shapes our ideas of romance and heroism, injustice, justice, and even freedom. As bestselling author, Anna Quindlen states, โ€œBooks are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.โ€

 

Not only can we explore the world in a new light by simply opening a book, we can, as Malorie Blackman suggests, participate in โ€œan exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone elseโ€™s shoes for a while.โ€