World Book Night 2011

[canadian_turtle]

This year marked the first World Book Night (not to be confused with World book Day on March 3) and I had the great pleasure of not only helping them out as a volunteer but also to be one of the 20,000 givers to get a batch of 48 books of one of the 25 chosen titles to hand out on the night of March 5th and thereafter. A total of one million free

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[canadian_turtle]

He was so nice <3 I only asked if he could maybe, possibly sign my book and he asked for my name so he could personalise it and took his time drawing the picture (noting he was happy there wasn't a queue of 46 people because then it'd take him forever to sign all the books, ha!)

[canadian_turtle]

*coughs and points at book title she gave away* You were supposed to pick a book you love so you can tell the people you give the book to why they should read it ;)

Anyway, Philip Pullman was AMAZING! I should probably upload the video I took of him reading an excerpt from Northern Lights his voices for the characters were fantastic.

I have the Sally Lockhart mysteries on my bookshelf but they are as of yet untouched (I saw one of the movies though, does that count? XD)

[canadian_turtle]

Ah yes, I suppose I didn't make that very clear. You had to fill in a whole application form and explain why you'd chosen this book as well. This to ensure that the book givers would know the books they give away well enough so that they can actually plug it to the receivers I suppose.

I've seen the one with Matt in it, yes! This was before DW when I didn't know him at all and was trying to make up my mind if I'd like him as the Doctor or not :)