Well last night was World Book Night, and I went to my local Waterstones store in Truro and handed out copies of Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I enjoyed this book when I first read it a year ago, and when I saw it was on the list of World Book Night book i chose it as my choice of giveaway.
After giving away copies of the book in Waterstones , I went on to a restaurant called Ask and some of the books ended up in the hands of the staff there, who were either going to keep them for themselves or give them to their mother.
Quite a few copies went to friend's who I know will enjoy them, and two copies are being sent to Dover and Cardiff by post tomorrow. It felt really good to give out a book that I like and hope that others will too. I have read many of Margaret Atwood's novels, and with her being so strongly behind World Book Night and even attending the event at Trafalgar Square, I'm glad I chose her book.
I think the best part of World Book Night is that my mum ,a reader again for the first time in years is going to attempt to read the Blind Assassin. that piece of news made my day, as an avid bookworm myself. I was really pleased that my mum has started to put her nose back into a book, and now both my mum and I are trying to get my dad to join in. Hopefully the whole family will be reading again and I won't be the solitary bookworm any more.
For me the event has opened many doors. I am already in one book group and now a few friends and I are starting a new one and we are going to start with the book Beloved by Toni Morrison, which is one of then 25 titles from World Book Night.
Reading is one of my greatest pleasures and am often to be found in with my nose buried deep in a book. Wherever I go, I always carry one with me.
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