Happy Micro Monday! It was such a fun surprise to hear from so many of you who were excited to see Micro Monday email returning to your inbox. We were pretty excited too & we so appreciate the warm welcome back 🙏✨ September begins tomorrow & it is a month that really wants us all to pick up a book. So for this edition of Micro Monday we are turning our attention to the joy that is reading. ~ Bonnie |
September 6th is Read a Book Day, which seems like as good an excuse as any to ask: What are you reading? We loved seeing @madaga’s September reading list, beautifully laid out & ready for the month ahead. Maybe it’ll inspire you to make a September reading list of your own! Show us the stack beside your bed, share something about that book you just can’t put down, revisit a story that changed you, or get up and crack open the one that’s been staring at you from the shelf. We’ll be keeping an eye out for your posts! |
📚 Here are some more “finished reading” posts from the Micro.blog community… Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — @mroutley: “Tchaikovsky is great at creating interesting aliens and having humans struggle to understand them.” Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke — @agilelisa — “Heading down a rabbit hole of Colonial America history.” Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer — @bloftin2: “I enjoyed this a lot. Lovecraftian exploration of a weird place, mind-bending experience beyond the ability of the human mind and senses to sort out. Weird tale.” As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes — @mandaris: “This was a real treat. I loved all the joy that the people making the film seemed to have. I was listening to the audiobook and it was narrated by the wonderful Cary Elwes and friends. I miss Rob Reiner.” Galahad and the Grail Merlin’s Isle by Malcolm Guite — @canneddragons: “One of my favorite parts was the final section about the history of the Arthurian legend and the inspiration for the book.” |
In America September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, an annual celebration of all the magical things that little card in your wallet can unlock. Books, for sure - but depending on your library, a card can also give you access to movies, music, classes & all kinds of things you may not realize are available. For instance, I recently learned that the Austin Library has a bike tool loan program, which is pretty amazing. They also have an Innovation Lab complete with recording equipment & 3D printers. We would like to hear about what makes your local library special. Take a look, ask your local librarian & share what you discover with us. Maybe we’ll all learn a few new tricks our library cards have up their sleeves. |
International Literacy Day • September 8 This year marks the 60th anniversary of International Literacy Day, a day created by UNESCO to recognize literacy as a fundamental human right & consider the work still to be done to make reading and education accessible all over the world. And we’d like to take this opportunity to remember someone who made getting books into the hands of children a very big part of her life’s work: Dolly Parton. Dolly founded the Imagination Library in 1995 in honor of her father, who couldn’t read or write. Before he died, he told her that the Imagination Library was probably the most important thing she had ever done — something Dolly said meant the world to her. If you’d like to honor Dolly’s legacy, you can learn more about the Imagination Library or make a donation to help keep the books coming. |
Today we introduced a new book details page for Micro.blog blogs, so when you link to a book, the link stays on your own domain name. Check out Manton’s blog post for the details. |
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