The Read While Waiting project comes out of the Random Alphabets group in Malaysia. The YouTube video below explains it - of how this Saturday they are hoping to start a world wide movement encouraging people to pick up the practice of reading while waiting for buses etc, or wherever they are with time on their hands.Read/Write
Curiously I have always been someone who gets twitchy if I don't have something to read in my shoulder bag. However, these days I get equally, if not more stressed, if I don't have a a pen and notebook to hand as well. So a parallel campaign to reassert the power and influence of the 'common place book' might also be fun. In short, for me, its increasingly a read/write world.
"When I was 5 I was given a present..."
That said - lets hear it for the RWW posse - definitely worth three minutes of your attention if only for the quote from Sean Connery - 'it's that simple, and that profound'
And thanks to Paula E from NZ School Librarians Group for the reference.
1 comments:
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the post. It's brilliant for the project. It's also being picked up in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore & Eindhoven.
Would you be interested in doing the Auckland Chapter? I'll set up a Facebook page for it and you could plug it on your blog.
I'll be on the Breakfast Show of a national tv station and it would be brilliant to mention that Auckland is in it as well.
Zain HD
Zain@RandomAlphabets.com
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