Category: Miscellaneous
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International Book Giving Day
February 14 isn’t just about chocolates and roses — it’s also about stories finding new homes.Today marks International Book Giving Day, a quietly powerful celebration built on a simple idea: books are meant to be shared. How International Book Giving Day Began International Book Giving Day was founded in 2012 as a grassroots effort to…
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World Read Aloud Day On February 4
When Stories Had Voices Before They Had Pages Before books were objects you could shelve, stories were events. They happened in breath and rhythm, around fires and tables, in fields at dusk and rooms lit by a single flame. World Read Aloud Day isn’t just a celebration of literacy—it’s a quiet nod to the oldest…
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“Inspire Your Heart with Art” Day
Today, January 31, is Inspire Your Heart with Art Day, which is delightfully vague—and honestly, that’s the point. Art is old. Really old. Older than writing, money, and older than the idea that someone could tell you your work is “interesting but derivative.” It predates galleries and critics. Before the phrase mixed media made people…
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National Escape Day
Today, January 30, is National Escape Day, which sounds at first like a novelty holiday invented by someone who wanted permission to take a long lunch and quietly disappear. But the longer I sit with it, the more I realize this day explains everything about why I write books, build worlds, and occasionally invent entire…
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When Life Freezes Over
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 