Fuck YOU, Social Anxiety!
I am winning the WAR, not just battles.
Today is World Book Night. People all over the USA and the UK are giving away a grand total of 250,000 FREE BOOKS to light, non, and lapsed readers.
I am one of them.Tonight I am going to my local coffee shop. I am going to proudly wear my sticker and hand out my favorite book. Neil Gaiman’s and Terry Pratchett’s GOOD OMENS.
I will be discussing this book, talking to strangers, encouraging them to read it, love it, pass it to someone else. I am going to create a strong link in the literacy chain, and try to remind people why reading is so much fun, why they should make time for it, why it can relax you, take you to new places and show you incredible things. All for a few hours of their time. All for free.
It’s been a long, long time since I was this excited about a social situation.
I AM GOING TO ROCK THIS.
And I am going to help 20 people rediscover the joy of reading then passing the story on so they will share the joy I found.
It’s a damn good day.
Go for it!
If you are in the USA and you want to give lots of copies of a book you love to people you like (or even people you barely know) this year’s WORLD BOOK NIGHT has some amazing books they want you to give out. That’s GIVE. FREE. How wonderful is that? Go to the website to find out how to apply to give a book away.
And yes, one of the books is indeed Good Omens.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman are delighted, thrilled, honoured and touched that Good Omens has been picked as a World Book Night choice:
“We love books, and think that a Night during which people give each other books is the best kind of Night there could be. We wish that there had been Nights like World Book Night when we were younger. Unfortunately, there weren’t, and we had to make our own entertainment, which is probably why we wrote Good Omens. But, hurrah! World Book Night! Give each other books. Especially ours. Every word lovingly inserted by craftsmen. We thank you.
P.S And while you’re about it try writing books yourself, it worked for us!”
—http://www.worldbooknight.org/wbn-news/241-world-book-night-title-2012-announcement
