Ireland Reads 2022
Hello,
I’m guessing that if you enjoy the Wordfoolery blog (fooling with unusual English words since 2009) you’re probably already reader, but do you know that Ireland has an entire day dedicated to celebrating reading in all its forms? It’s called Ireland Reads, it’s on the 25th of February annually, and I’m a Reading Ambassador for the initiative on behalf of the Louth Library Service.
The idea is that you sign up at the Ireland Reads website, pledging to read for a certain amount of minutes, or hours, on Friday the 25th. They’ve a brilliant book suggestion tool there too with thousands of ideas provided by librarians around the country. I’ve pledged two hours as I think the day is a wonderful excuse to read, but even fifteen minutes counts as they dare you to #SqueezeInARead (hence the lovely graphics of readers in tiny spaces). Technically it’s for people reading in Ireland but I’m sure if you were signing up from elsewhere they wouldn’t mind. You could always try a book by an Irish author.
I’ll be blogging about Ireland Reads this week (don’t worry, the unusual words will resume next Monday). As Louth Libraries is particularly aiming to get children reading on the day this year I’ll be chatting about the books I loved as a child and because I love fiction with a touch of humour I’ll be posting about funny books too. On Wednesday 23rd Sinéad Brassil and I have turned over part of Wordfoolery Wednesday on LMFM radio to book chat so if you’re local please tune in (or you can catch the podcast later).
They also asked me to create a video about Ireland Reads, including a reading from my most recent book, “Words the Vikings Gave Us”. If you’d like to admire my unusually tidy and dust-free bookshelves you can check that out here. It’s my first ever video book reading so please excuse any hesitations.
Some other bookish Wordfoolery posts you might enjoy –
Seven Fun Ways Back into Reading
Eleven Ways to Squeeze in a Read
Wordfoolery’s Favourite Books of 2021 and 2020, 2019, 2018. I’m not a book blogger but I read about 60 books each year and I pick out my favourites each year to review at year end so other readers can find and enjoy them as much as I have. I’m also very active on Goodreads, so feel free to friend me there to read my reviews.
Hopefully you will join me on the Friday the 25th in picking up a book and squeezing in a read. Any type will do and of course audio books, graphic novels, nonfiction, genre fiction, poetry, and screenplays all count too.
Until next time happy reading, writing, and wordfooling,
Grace (@Wordfoolery)
