To celebrate World Book Night, The Reading Agency is asking everyone to join in reading from 7.00-8.00pm. This can be reading alone, or maybe you already have a book club meeting, perhaps listen to an audio book or read to the kids before they go to bed.
It’s important to make time for reading especially in this Year of Reading – and we’re not talking about the children. 1 in 3 people in England don’t read regularly for pleasure. So the plan is to get many more people to pick up a book, listen or talk about books. According to The Reading Agency 19% of readers say that reading stops them feeling lonely. Either way that’s a lot of people.
This year there are 6 more Quick Reads – short books from bestselling authors written in an easy to read style:
The Woman Next Door by Louise Jensen
The Last Bench by Carmel Harrington
Cell One by Leye Adenle
The Girl in the Picture by Rachel Hore
Sweet Charity by Rosie Goodwin
Hunger Pains by Derek Owusu
Check them out on the Reading Agency site. Last year they gifted 36,502 books, via 306 organisations across a whole range of people – prisoners, refugees, job seekers and many more. I’ll be review each of these titles shortly. Watch the time. Tonight 7.00pm.
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