So we’re all grounded pretty much but that doesn’t mean we can’t travel via our books right? Did you know that this week there are two important book dates?
First, World Book Day is this week and to highlight some world literature, Amazon is giving away copies of some international bestsellers. I was particularly excited about the books set in Germany and South Africa.
Then, this coming Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. Of course thanks to COVID-19 there’s no trip to the bookstore and this date has now been moved to August but you can still support your indie bookstores by visiting Bookshop.org. By the way did you see the t-shirts on the Independent bookstore day link? So cute.
I’ll be supporting international book day by enjoying the latest edition of World Literature Today. I’ve already skimmed through it once but need to go back and mark the books I want to get. Hope you guys are having a great start of the week!
I picked up a couple of these books too!
Thank you for the amazon link. There are a couple I’m interested in, too! Glad they changed the date for Independent Bookstore Day. 🙂
I picked up some of those Amazon books too – they looked so good! I don’t think I’ve heard of World Literature Today – going to take a look.
My local indie posted about both days on Twitter and offered alternatives to coming into the store (which isn’t possible right now, of course). They aren’t part of Bookshop.org, but they are keeping up with orders from their own site. I hope they don’t suffer too much through all of this.
Yay to indie bookstores. My favorite one in upstate NY unfortunately closed in 2019 but there’s two other local ones I want to take a trip out to once things get back to normal. The Independent bookstore t-shirt is so cute!