Who knew?
I think this is a made up celebration day, but when something is well done, and is about Beverly Cleary who wrote one of my all time favorite books (Otis Spofford!!!) well, I'm all for it.
Here's the link to the Drop Everything and Read website.
Maybe we should celebrate the day with a contest.
Any ideas? (and no, NO crapometer stuff, Miss Snark gets the vapors at the very idea)
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Maybe people should post their guilty pleasures reading. Those books that may not be good, but you read just because.
Best writer to read about writing contest.
How about a contest for the first 100 (max) words of a work in progress? The opening "hook."
Problem for (leave things to the last possible second) me is, April 12th is too damned close to the ides of April, better known as Income tax drop dead day for me to consider participating. Other than that, fabulous idea. I wish I were better organized.
anon-y-mouse
My suggested best book by a writer about writing would be Wayne Booth's
'The Rhetoric Of Fiction' and his discussion of narrative voice.
I think you were on vacation or a trip when he died - or I would I have brought him up at the time.
For me, every day is "Drop Everything and Read Day". Unfortunately.
I love Jude's idea.
Best haiku about a favorite children's book?
Hey, they'd be amusing, anyway. And not take enormous amounts of time, for those of us who should be writing (or...er...working).
I'm going to do a contest on my blog and website to write the funniest or most ridiculous "movie hook" for a book--I came up with one a while ago, for "a cross between Two Weeks Notice and The Deerhunter, with aliens too!"
It's here
If you want to use the contest idea, feel free! Might be fun to see what the devotion would come up with!
Award bonus points if Miss Snark figures in the plot somewhere. :-)
Oh, warning-my old icon is on that webpage, so if you're offended by a bare stomach, DO NOT click the link.
we used to have a D.E.A.R. week in elementary school! I loved it. The principal would come on the PA and announce that it was DEAR time, and we'd all get to read for about 15-20 minutes.
Everyone should post what book they are reading on that day, and recommend it (why) or not (why).
And then we can start the Crap-O-Meter (tm) the followin week. ;)
I'm kidding! Down KY! Down! ok1 Uncle! Uncle!
Maybe post our favorite sentence/paragraph from our all-time favorite book. The person who identifies the most books wins. What will s/he win? I have no idea. Maybe a copy of my or other snarklings' forthcoming book(s). How's that for shameless promotion?
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I'm celebrating the day by showing up in bankruptcy court. Once my debts are wiped clean, maybe I'll go out and buy some books since I'll finally have some freakin' money to spend.
I like the identifying extracts idea, although I suspect the prize would go to the most expert googler...
Wow, I had no idea Beverly Cleary was still alive.
I like Brady's idea. I'm always looking to read more about writing.
I love Bonnie's idea! That sounds super fun.
But then I'd have to pick a favorite and that could be a problem.
Or I could just enter lots of time under assumed names . . . that could work.
Reed A. Booke
Q. E. Rey
Dr. Eams
P. O. V.
K. Y. Wannabi
M. S. Izastar
I may need a few more aliases. (aliasees?)
OOPS. I've been doing that every day, and unfortunately my house shows it!
Best book by a writer about writing should have two categories -- best novel by a writer about a writer, writing; and best guide by a writer about writing.
Perhaps a first sentence contest. May the best first sentence win! Must be your own from an unpublished novel (work in progress, whatever).
My kid's elementary school has 'dear' time every day, so no, it's not a joke, Miss Snark.
:)
I wish I *could* drop everything and read. Sadly, real world and the need to pay the bills get in the way.
Three days before April 15 they want us to drop everything and read?
What?
Tax forms?
I like Jude's idea also.
I'm in favor of Jude's idea. Let the Crapometer beware for later on, though.
And around here where I live, every day is DEAR day. We read like some people eat. 'Course, we also eat a great deal...
T2
I like Andrea's idea of a first sentence contest. Why not take a widely read classic with a famous first line, and have each of us write a new opening line?
Love the idea of a haiku on a favorite kids book.
What about rewriting a famous opening sentence/phrase to bring it up to date?
To be or not to be - who cares when fate's chucking a heap of bad karma at me...
It is a truth universally acknowedged...
Everybody knows that rich guys are looking to hook up with the cute girl-next-door.
Her Snarkness appears to be... underwhelmed... by our suggestions...
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