So World Book Night has come and gone for another year, and what a lovely WBN it was! Once again the Travelling Suitcase Library took over my local pub, Arcadia, filling it with books, and bunting.
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| A happy customer! |
I was giving away Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses, a powerful dystopian YA romance book, and I was also joined by the lovely Jimi, who found out about the event through the World Book Night website, who was giving out copies of Casino Royale, which went down a treat with the pub regulars.
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| World Book Night @ Arcadia |
We were joined by the incredibly supportive
Leeds Big Bookend Crew, whose festival I'm really looking forward to, and the
Leeds Ladyfest Crew were on hand selling awesome merch, the bags really came in useful for carrying the books back!
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| The Ladyfest Crew and the Awesome Bags! |
And of course the Travelling Suitcase Library was its usual busy self, as most people turned up to the event with bags upon bags of books to swap.
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| Books Make People Excited! |
This year's event was smaller than previous ones, World Book Night is now such a big event with so many people giving books all over Leeds-I was really chuffed to be handed some in Leeds Book Station by Leeds Met Library-it is hard for someone on their own to organise. I couldn't do a buffet, and the least said about my buns the better. But for the people who came, and supported the event for the third year running (and it was SO NICE to have people bringing books they got last year and loved to be swapped again) we had a lovely evening, I got to wear a frock, and many people found a stack of books.
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| Me, and my suitcase, looking a bit pink at the end of the night! |
Thank yous...
The Arcadia Team, Graeme, Sarah and Hayley for being so lovely and letting me take over for another year. Reb and Dave for being so incredibly kind and helpful, Fiona and The Big Bookend, L and P from Ladyfest and the Leeds Feminist Network Massive, fellow giver Jimi, B and friends, Luey, Lou, Tom and Jim, H, G/R, EB Snare and the Twitter Crew and P for just being wonderful.
1 comments:
I'll make it to Arcadia next time, ended up at White Swan this year because it was a last minute decision to go :P Enjoyed every second of it and it was great to swap so many books
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