APRIL CHATS - 2023

Chatting With Our Friends in April.

Today, April 6th is National Library Day
https://nationaltoday.com/national-library-day/

>2 JulieLill: I found out his morning that my library is having a party. Going to stop by this afternoon. There's a cake and punch and all late fees are forgiven if the book is turned back in today.

>3 Carol420: Hope you enjoyed your cake, Carol, 🙂.

Our local council scrapped late fees for library books a little while back. So much better.

>4 Sergeirocks: The cake was a combination of chocolate and white, shaped like a big book. They gave the kids cute bookmarks. A lot of people read in my city so there was a lot of folks. Love to see people are still reading actual books.

Every day with cake or books is a happy day! 😊

>6 genesisdiem: You got that right:)

>6 genesisdiem: 👍

Woot! I received a Librarything 15 year badge! 😁

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!

>9 genesisdiem: Congrats on your 15 years. Just think of all the books you have read over that time!

>9 genesisdiem: 👏🙂

Hello everyone and happy Easter and happy April! And happy reading this month.

>9 genesisdiem: Congrats!! I hope everyone had a great Easter (if celebrated) and are enjoying their Spring so far!!!

Tomorrow (Thursday) sees the start of the next Mystery and Suspense Group Read, with the read of Play Dead by Angela Marsons. This is book 4 in the excellent DI Kim Stone Series.

I will post the schedule later tonight.

This is the schedule for the Group Read of Play Dead by Angela Marsons, which starts today. This is the fourth book in the DI Kim Stone Series.

Thursday 13th April : Prologue - Chapter 12
Friday 14th April : Chapter 13 - Chapter 32
Saturday 15th April : Chapter 33 - Chapter 53
Sunday 16th April : Chapter 54 - Chapter 74
Monday 17th April : Chapter 75 - Chapter 93

This is the link to the group. All welcome to join.

https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/23971

I heard the sad news that Anne Perry has recently died. I know several people in this group were fans of hers, and I wanted to express my condolences.

Here is the link to the New York Times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/books/anne-perry-dead.html

Did I see that someone was having a birthday today?? 🧁 🥳

>18 genesisdiem: That would be our very own Carol! 🎉 Hope your day was a blast, Carol, 🎆🎇.

>19 Sergeirocks: It was wonderful! Thank you. >18 genesisdiem: Yeah...I'm 39 again...and again...and again>

Belated birthday greetings Carol, hope you had a great day. 🎉🥳🍾🥂🎂🎁🎈🎊

>21 Andrew-theQM:
Thanks, Andrew. I did. I had chocolate cake! What could be better than that?

>22 Carol420: Nothing beats chocolate cake.

Happy Birthday- Carol! Portillo's Chocolate Cake is my favorite Birthday Cake!

>24 JulieLill: Thank you, Julie. You can't ever have too much chocolate:)

Carol!! Happy Birthday to you, dear LT friend! Many more 39 and 39 and 39 birthdays to you. 🎂😀

>26 threadnsong: Thank you so very much.

I never thought in our lifetime that we would still be dealing with people who are still banning books - so sad!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-book-ban-surge-gripping-america-s-schools-...

>28 JulieLill: Isn't that the truth! I remember my mother going to school and having a "discussion" with my teacher when I was in 2nd grade because she wouldn't let me bring Little Black Sambo to school. I always brought one of my books from home to read at recess and she made me put it on her desk until I went home.

>28 JulieLill: There's a short story in Bradbury's The Illustrated Man about burning books. It's told from the POV of the authors of the banned books, starting with Edgar Allen Poe standing at the top of the castle in the Emerald City and MacBeth's witches chanting incantations in the hopes of turning away the rocket ship from Earth.

Like you, I thought we were all past this but apparently not.

The Newberry Library in Chicago is having an exhibit of Pop Up Books which I think that would be a fun exhibit to attend!

https://www.newberry.org/calendar/pop-up-books-through-the-ages