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Not only is April 23 Shakespeare's birthday – his 450th this year – but information technology'south a day when books are the centre of festivals and events effectually the world.

In the Uk and Republic of ireland, today marks the celebration of Earth Book Nighttime. This yr, for the first time, individual readers are are being encouraged to annals as community book givers and requite a book away – be it to a friend or loved one, a fellow member of their community or a complete stranger – to spread the dearest for literature.

Elsewhere, Globe Book Twenty-four hours takes identify today, as organised past UNESCO, with festivities such as the Catalan Sant Jordi – to mark Saint George's day, in honour of Catalonia's patron saint. This "day of the book and the rose" is a Valentine'due south day of sorts in which streets are packed with stalls, and couples demonstrate their love by exchanging roses and books – giving publishers a massive heave along the style.

As well today, the title of Globe Book Capital will move from the hands of Bangkok to the Nigerian metropolis of Port Harcourt.

Did you accept part in whatsoever of these literary activities? Prove us how you celebrated – or tell us what volume yous would give to someone yous honey. Share your stories and photos by clicking on the blueish 'contribute' button. Here is a selection of your contributions:

Julio Cortázar - Hopscotch

"She would smile and testify no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be simply the opposite, and that people who make dates are the aforementioned kind who demand lines on their writing paper, or who e'er squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste." [ Julio Cortázar - Hopscotch ]

My boyfriend and I are currently in a long distance state of affairs. To keep close nosotros've decided to read a book together. It was a tough 1 deciding which volume and besides express to availability on different continents but we decided on a Haruki Murakami. :)

by Pamela Murray

Relato de un náufrago

As my motherland tradition dictates, every year I requite my (British) boyfriend a book on Sant Jordi'south Day. I usually endeavor and choose a work of Catalan or Hispanic Literature. This year it was clear it had to be a book by the tardily Gabo - so I gave him 'The Story of a Shipwrecked Crewman' (Relato de un náufrago). Although this is one of Garcia Marquez's to the lowest degree known works, it's a very interesting volume, that I really wanted him to read.

Post-obit the Catalan tradition, I accept just bought my English language boyfriend the book "Rock in a Landslide" past Maria Barbal, great Catalan literature! I just hope he will call back most the rose :)

by Maria Puig

My Nigerian married man and I have recently shared, very much enjoyed and discussed together over meals Adichie's AMERICANAH. What better way to heighten our love?

by PatLux

The Big Sleep for its night humor as my husband is Swiss and methinks he doesn't understand. How mistaken I was. A few years back Stendhals, 'The Red and the Blackness' and 'The Fashion of all mankind'.

by kultur

Not easy to think of something suitably Sonnet-y for her. So allow's Frankenstein some generic loved one out of the air, out of the thin air and then – oh, I don't know.

Wise Children, past Angela Carter
Boy's Life, past Robert McCammon
The Cunning Human being, by Robertson Davies

All of them celebrate story, all of them gloat life.

by Jantar

Giving away copies of :59 seconds for Globe Book Night

I of our librarians is giving away gratuitous books on campus at Newcastle University before heading back over to the library to join in our Rainy Mean solar day Reads book club

The 4 Loves, past C.S. Lewis: This is a beautiful, heart-searching volume on the nature love. By reading information technology yourself and giving it to someone you dearest, non only would y'all would both find out precisely where you stood (!) simply you could bask the greater depth of honey in all its nuances opened upwards before you lot!

by danielsgang

Lights Out In Wonderland: Zara, mother of my gorgeous girlfriend, gave me Lights Out In Wonderland by DCC Pierre. Amazing woman, amazing novel, amazingly eye-opening, disturbing, hilarious portrait of the fourth dimension nosotros live in.

by Chris Tofer Gatfield

I was a WBN Giver last year. A lovely experience. As for a book to give a loved one, I gave my hub the complete Shakespeare's plays when we started dating. He was an actor, and loved it. Last Christmas I gave my best friend CS Lewis' Til Nosotros Accept Faces. She'd never heard of information technology and loves it as well.

by gooddogs

Walt Whitman'south Leaves of Grass: I would give this book to my partner Gene (for the second time) because he considers it 1 of the finest poems ever written. He loves the poem so much he is never in fact in possession of a concrete copy, equally he is constantly thrusting it unto other people. I myself derive neat pleasure from the fact that many of my favourite books are never in my own possession, fifty-fifty my favourite River Cottage cookbook, which lives in a sharehouse where a number of my friends share and enjoy information technology.

by mcnicole

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho: I accept really given this volume to My Ane True Love – for him to read, interpret and deed on as he pleases. This volume spoke to me in volumes, on and so many levels, when I first read information technology, and I wanted to share the possibility of that same experience with someone I cared almost. Basically, endeavor to reach for and realize your dreams within each and every twenty-four hour period, don't overlook what's right in forepart of you lot, and don't take anything for granted (especially not love). We all gotta accept a dream!

by chowcsy

Four Lilliputian Dialogues.

Perhaps 1 of the world's foremost living philosophers discusses God, Justice, Love and Beauty with children anile between 6 and 12. In that location are some absolutely beautiful passages and some expressions which are so profound and yet accessible to even a small child. This volume is specially pregnant to my wife and I. It volition move whatever person who has ever uttered the words 'I love you,' and truly meant it.

Essays in Love by Alain de Botton: I read it and made annotations on the margins likewise as underlinings. Then I sent information technology through the postal service to her job. She now is making notes of her own and and then I'll re-read with her annotations. We shall share infinitely this text.

by sodaverde

Essays in Beloved by Alain de Botton: Told me all I needed to know nigh hows and whys of fall in dearest, and how when deep in the dear we endeavour to destroy it because feeling practiced nearly something for too long is an unnatural man condition.

by ID1813748

To Kill A Mockingbird past Harper Lee: Because equally Atticus shows united states of america, love is near imagining what information technology is like to walk in another person's shoes...

by PenCoops

John Thomas and Lady Jane

Not as famous as the version that preceded it, I nevertheless love this edition particularly for the following passage, which is, for me, a vivid description of being in love: 'You are home to me. I don't care nigh houses. When I think of you - but I don't remember if I can help it, if a man starts thinking, the fat is in the fire. Everything is a prison, I never felt free. I've ever felt cooped in and pocket-sized, except with yous, and with yous I'thou all right, you lot open all the world to me. When I call up most how you lot opened me, nay, I don't care what happens. But I don't think if I can assistance it. We've got to live our lives, you yours and me mine'.

The God Argument: This is A C Grayling'due south example against religion and for humanism. I think it is the near important book of the year and I am giving information technology to 2 of my grandsons (lovely smart teenagers who think they know it all).

by Donald McMiken

The God of Small Things: The lyrical beauty of this novel, it's primal theme of who decides 'who should be loved and how much', and the vivid descriptions and characterisation, in this book have never left me. I read this book twelve years ago, and take been recommending it to people I dearest always since.

past sbmeads

Can I pick three books? Someone has already browbeaten me to Shakespeare'southward Sonnets only I've included it anyway. There really isn't a man emotion these extraordinary poems don't cover. While many are nighttime and difficult, others are simply breathtakingly cute.

The second book I recommend with a mensurate of sadness, also as love; the belatedly, great Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Honey in the Fourth dimension of Cholera – a book to get lost in likewise as fall in love with. Absolutely beautiful prose. I tin simply imagine what information technology reads like in the original Castilian.

Finally, a book I bang on about all the fourth dimension - John Irving's astonishing A Prayer for Owen Meany. Dealing with religion, specifically Christianity, I know it might non be to everyone'south taste but I've given this volume to then many friends and loved ones and they've e'er been grateful. I don't think a book (or a main graphic symbol) has ever moved me so much. It is the book I return to whenever I have a bad case of what Audrey Hepburn referred to as "the mean reds" in Breakfast at Tiffany'due south.

by Keysersoyze

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