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Get Booked
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: 2016/11 - November | Photograph By: Marjorie Christiansen Photography
Ask any librarian or bookstore owner and they will tell you, “People love to read!”
The public’s book passion is so great that National Book Lovers Day has been assigned to a number of dates, among them August 9 and the first Saturday of November. It doesn’t matter which day we celebrate, for what could be more absorbing, educational, entertaining, and relaxing than putting your feet up and leaping into an imaginary world of mystery, travel, romance, or fantasy? In truth, every day is Book Day.
To commemorate the occasion, Michelle and Sydney at The Book Nook share Ann Tyler’s quote: “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
Whether you live those lives in hardcovers, paperbacks, CD books, e-books, classics, current best-sellers or books a-la-mode, authors have something to say and millions of readers are ready to enjoy it.
No one knows for certain where National Book Lovers Day originated. It’s like which came first – the chicken book or the egg book? All that matters is that the date exists.
So rejoice, all you bibliophiles. You can sit back and read the day away. While you’re getting booked, take a moment to reflect on the history of that assemblage of ink and paper resting in
your lap.
• The very first books were written by scribes on parchment or vellum (calf skin) and the Egyptian’s papyrus scrolls.
• A book’s cover was often made of wood encased in leather.
• Clasps or straps secured the binding.
• The first public libraries appeared in the Middle Ages.
• Books in those early libraries were often chained to a permanent fixture to prevent theft.
Today, millions of books later, we don’t have to wrestle with chains and bolts. A simple library card will unlock a myriad
of adventures.
So borrow or buy an escapade. Or trade a favorite paperback with a friend or neighbor. Spread the words and enjoy National Book Lovers Day, November 5.
