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[morganmuffle]

How do you tell the difference between sensibly picking your battles and just being a coward? BAH So apparently today is World Book Day? Is that actually an international thing or is a UK thing with an overly ambitious name

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[matildabj]

Thank you so much for alerting me to the existence of The Whicharts. Ballet Shoes was one of THE books of my childhood so I really must get hold of the grown-up version. Thanks again!

[morganmuffle]

I'd never heard of it before this but it was really worth reading, very strange knowing Ballet Shoes, but definitely worth it!

[euphrosyna]

We have World Book Day in Ireland too... but often we appropriate UK things. :)

I feel like I haven't talked to you in ages! I'm a bit un-LJy atm.

[morganmuffle]

Well I guess at least that means it's more than National?

It has been a while :-( whilst I'm always on LJ I've been a bit... well TV and theatre only for a while.

[euphrosyna]

:) Your theatre and TV posts are interesting to read but I generally don't have anything interesting to say to them because I haven't seen the plays and shows! I'm very out of touch with TV at the moment, apart from HIMYM.

[strandedinaber]

Anyway it seems a really bad day to admit that the reason I haven't posted my February book list is that there's only one book on it *fails*

Ditto! I mean, I've read at least thirty. But they're all work books and I refuse to put them on my book list because work reading doesn't count.

Also, a US friend was the one who told me today is World Book Day, so it's at least known in the UK, the US and Ireland...

[morganmuffle]

Work books definitely don't count. Non-fiction do but only if I'm reading them for fun or for myself *g* Plus I've read a bunch of magazines and fanfiction and stuff just not books...

More international than I thought then but very English-speaking still.

[morganmuffle]

They can indeed and it depends on so many things; situations, people youre with, your mood, their mood, the exact subject...

[jslayeruk]

It must be World Book Day, because National Book Day is April 23rd (to coincide with Shakespeare's birthday). Well, that's either National Book Day or National Reading Day... I can't remember. It's something to do with books and it's on Shakespeare's birthday.

And St George's Day. But whatever.

[morganmuffle]

LOL I like the idea we have a world book day and a national one! The more book days the better (though surely the 23rd of April ought to be National Theatre Day!)