[I posted about the program here yesterday, and seriously, if you can get to Naperville, IL on 11/14, you need to come join us.]
This piece is tongue in cheek yes, but it is also 100% true! I love how Iglesias always embraces his book nerdom, while also reminding all of us who share in his love of books how ferocious, powerful, and awesome it is to be readers, especially professional readers.
Reading is not a passive activity for weak people; we are not worms who bury underground and hide; we are predators who stalk our prey, both books and the people who haven't read the books we want them to. Iglesias wants us all to embrace our power, own it, and bask in it. We are more powerful that we think we are....every single day.
I hope this piece inspires you. I hope it gives you the energy to tackle whatever your day brings to you; and I know from 15 years of public service myself, what is brought to you on any given day could be anything and everything. And, even if your day is not filled with as much personal reading as you would hope for, remember, when you share books, talk about books, put up displays, promote titles, all of it, remember you are being a Bookshark! Own it.
Why not also include your patrons. Use the graphic below for social media or an in-house display. Ask patrons to comment on what makes them a bookshark. What books to they stalk? What titles are they on the hunt for, etc.... Just don't be literal and only include books about sharks please. That is not the point here.
I have included the introduction of the article with a link to the rest below. I promise you, this is worth your time [as is just about anything Iglesias writes].
Ten Problems Only Booksharks Have
Shark image by GEORGE DESIPRIS
Let's get the obvious question out of the way. Booksharks is a term I created after getting tired of seeing readers referred to as bookworms. We read ferociously. We never stop. We hunt exciting narratives. We discuss books aggressively. We move through bookstores with purpose and killer instinct. We are predators, and "bookworm" just doesn't cut it anymore. We're fucking booksharks.
Moving on! If books are a huge part of your life, you have a unique set of problems only others like you will understand. Everyone else will either make fun of or simply ignore them because they can't relate. The list is long, but this is the internet and we have to keep things relatively short, so here ten of them.
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