Sneak into Books

A blog of bookgasms, sneaking away to literature where all reality is unreal but the characters you meet seem more real than the people you meet on a daily basis.

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Busiest but Most Fun Week

July is for National Children's Book Month. 

First time in my career that the urge to participate in this celebration came alive. On its 30th anniversary. For a couple of weeks, I engaged myself to coordination to various school offices and point persons and posting updates on different bulletin boards. Well, that cost my breaks and times to take a rest and not even once in those weeks did I regret those little sacrifices. Indeed, my way of returning something to the children. 

And the blast happened this week. There were storytelling sessions, quiz bees and book talks from Monday thru Friday in the grade school classrooms. What a fun way to motivate reading and imbibe the true spirit of literature! This is just the start of the tedious process because my goal for this year is to leave a legacy relevant to reading, literature and social interactions.

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We enjoyed the storytelling sessions with the kids in line with the National Children's Book Month.

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The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

-The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne

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It does not mean being vulnerable

A hero must leave home just as anyone needs to go out from his comfort zone. He must confront fabulous dangers and return to grant blessing to others.

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Then he went with Sara into her little sitting room and they bade each other goodbye. Sara sat on his knee and held the lapels of his coat in her small hands and looked long and hard at his face. "Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart." And they kissed as if they would never let each other go.

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Life. Moving, growing, changing, never the same two minutes together. --Tuck Everlasting

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Next to Harry Potter, the HG series caught my attention.

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At 15, life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. --Maya Angelou, I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings

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Interesting links to enhance reading

http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/

http://asiaintheheart.blogspot.com/