#book-it

[argentumcor]

"Earn your 2026 reading points!"

You know, those used to get me pizza.

[darling-stevie]

i bet i'd read more if there was still a personal pan pizza in it for me

[softwarmkittypurrpurrpurr]

The other day, I was pacing and thought something along the lines of "what if there was an app that was kinda like the Pizza Hut Book-It thing".

Like, it was a reading log, but every so many books or pages could get you a gift card or coupon or something to Pizza Hut (or somewhere else, I mean, if other companies wanted to get in on it).

With the second one, I was thinking more of a points system. Like, once you had so many you could exchange it for whatever.

Of course, then I realized the problem. Namely, how hard it would be to prevent people from trying to game the system.

And of course, no one would want to be involved unless you could prevent that.

There's also the fact that Book-It! Only runs for a limited time.

I suppose that you could rotate what's available, but that would probably just over complicate things.

Well, it was fun to think about.

[letsplaywithperry-blog]

[sighinastorm]

Imagine if you could get paid in pizza for reading books.

For the next 9 days, Book-It is for adults too! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/pizza-hut-book-it-is-back-free-pizza_n_5906472.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

[nex3]

I Watched Truth Like the Sun

I don’t know if you could stage a play adaptation of Truth Like the Sunanywhere but Seattle; it was packed full of local locations and references that would have fell flat on another audience. But it was staged here, and a good thing too, since I quite enjoyed it.

The play takes great pains to present all sides of its characters’ actions and their effects. It makes it clear why each character does what they do: the journalist acts out of a desire to learn the truth and to excel at her job, and the politician acts to better the city. At the same time, we see how these noble motivations can lead the characters to harm one another.

I like stories that are character-driven like this; stories that just set up a group of people with personailities and desires, let them interact, and see what happens. I’m glad not everything works like this, since it tends to sacrifice overarching plot in the service of character interactions, but it’s nice that some stories do.

[overindulgingandunderachieving]

i view a little caesar's hot n ready pizza the same i way i viewed one of those pizza hut personal pan pizzas that you got for free when you were in the book-it club and read four books in one month in elementary school. long story short i eat a little caesar's hot n ready pizza in one sitting and i'm not even mad about it.

[bucketfuloflists]

this week, we picked my last day at Book-It

Email to co-worker regarding donor pages: Last…ones…ever…from me…at Book-it.

email from co-worker: WHY. Why would you say that.

email to co-worker: Um…I don’t know?