Armchair
BEA Day 3 – Topic “Networking...In Real Life?!”
“Today's suggested
writing topic...we'd love for you to share a positive "real
life" experience with books! Either by way of your
own partnerships in your community, a book signing you went to or possibly even a get together with fellow book bloggers. Tell us
all about it!”
My most recent “real life”
experience with books happened on World Book Night, I posted about it
here.
I love the whole idea of World Book Night and
was thrilled to be accepted as a Giver. I was even more happy
because I got to giveaway copies of The Hunger Games (I love the book
and it's also the first book that everyone in my family has read and
liked.)
I gave away the books at the
community college library where I work. I was proud of myself
because this was the first time that I was proactive at my job and
actually asked to set up an event. I expanded the giving beyond the
20 copies of The Hunger Games by having people bring in books
in good condition that they wanted to giveaway. This way there were
plenty of books to go around. Now people are already looking forward
to next year. I'm also thinking we might be able to have another
giveaway with books people bring in if I promote it more and get more
interest going (maybe once a month or bi-monthly). It was a ton of
fun and has inspired me to become more involved at my library and to
push for more events and interactions with patrons.
