Between the Pages

Happy National Novel Writing Month! I cannot believe it is November already. It seems fall has gotten away from me, from all of us. (It was almost 80 degrees where I live today, so it seems the weather is confused as to where autumn has gone too!) Please enjoy the following slides. Comment below if you like the slides as images pasted in posts or as an embedded slideshow for clearer viewing. I hope you like this new format as much as I do. Happy reading!

Friends, I promise a massive review is coming soon, as I am reading a trilogy that I plan to review as a unit. Until then, I'll be here reading and writing mini-posts on holidays I find interesting. I hope you all find them fun too. At least I'm learning something, right?  October 18th through October 24th is National Friends of Libraries Week.  The third week of October promotes groups who support libraries. This week is a great platform for groups who are active in their local library scene to increase awareness in their communities, grow membership, and encourage people to read and get active in their libraries'. Some groups, as you may have seen in your communities, focus on getting youth (especially teens) involved with their library. This, from experience, is no easy task. Their efforts are reasons to celebrate! How can you observe National Friends of Libraries Week?  *safely* (because of the COVID-19 pandemic) Join the teen/youth group at your library Know that YOU...

Happy belated National Dictionary Day! I am going to start posting a mini-post for each of the holidays posted on the Bibliophile's Calendar !       October 16th is nationally recognized as Dictionary Day, which is based on Noah Webster's birthday. Noah Webster, the Father of the American Dictionary, is fittingly recognized with this celebration. He published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language , in 1806. Immediately following its release he began compiling his most cumbersome work: An American Dictionary of the English Language . To do so, he learned 26 languages some being Old-English, German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanskrit. It took him 27 years to compile over seventy thousand words, twelve thousand of which had never been recorded in a dictionary before.       Webster sparked a massive linguistic reform. He found some British spellings unnecessarily complicated; thus, he ...

 Hello, again. I am so happy to be posting. Turns out there are a lot of literary holidays! Enjoy!

The Strand Book Store in New York City, New York hosted a virtual event (on both Zoom and Facebook Live) to celebrate Hannah Orenstein's new novel: Head over Heels . Becca Freeman asked Hannah Orenstein questions about her writing process, the new novel, and her previous experience with writing. After Freeman finished her questions, virtual audience members were able to send in questions. Freeman asked and Orenstien answered beautifully. If you were able to attend the event, please comment about your experience. If you were unable to come, please read the summary of questions and responses, but first, a little about the women and book of the event.  The People Hannah Orenstein is the author of three novels: Head over Heels, Love at First Like, and Playing with Matches . By day, Orenstein is the senior dating editor at Elite Daily magazine. By night, her experience editing aids her in writing novels about romance, sports, comedy, and even jewelry...? She has written for a number of...