Exciting Times

Hi there readers!

Drum roll please - I have some exciting news to announce. Well, okay it’s exciting for me. Do you remember a blog post I did last year about World Book Night? It’s an organisation which promotes reading, like World Book Day, but slightly cooler. Do you remember now? No.

Here’s a brief description;

·         The public votes for their favourite book of the year.

·         Really crazy book-lovers apply to be a ‘giver'.

·         These givers select a book that they’d like to hand out ( from the top 20 books)

·         On the 23^rd of April, across the country, hundreds of book-lovers will be handing out their selected book.

So, the exciting news that I’d like to share with you is that I have been selected to be a World Book Night giver! Whoop, whoop. The idea of introducing people to reading is one that makes me positively ecstatic. It’s strange to imagine a life which doesn’t involve reading – I’m lucky enough to have been introduced to books at a young age.

The books that have been nominated of the top 20 books this year are;

                                                                                    

1. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
2. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
3. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
4. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
5. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
6. A Little History of the World by E.H Gombrich
7. Little Face by Sophie Hannah
8. Damage by Josephine Hart
9. The Island by Victoria Hislop
10. Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
11. Last Night Another Soldier... by Andy McNab
12. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
13. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
14. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
15. No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
16. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
17. The Road Home by Rose Tremain
18. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
19. Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges by John Wagner
20. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry  

 

Can you guess which book I’ll be giving out? Considering that she’s one of my favourite authors, I had the pleasure to meet and interview her when I was younger and she’s made me laugh and cry the decision was and easy one for me. It is of course Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman.

I chose this book because the book is so transferrable. I literally think that anyone can read it, young, old, male or female. I believe that I could hand the book to anyone and they’d enjoy it. Malorie Blackman’s message in Noughts and Crosses is so clear anyone can understand and relate to it. It’s practically a classic.

So in conclusion, I’ll be giving away books. For one amazing night. That’s what I like to call, The Best Night Out Ever.

 

P.S. It is also my birthday tommorrow...just saying.