Read our new blogpost discussing how Traumatic Brain Injury is much more than “when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain.” As Janna Leyde’s memoir He Never Liked Cake illustrates, it’s also an unprecedented event, for the victim as well as his or her loved one’s, that turns everyone’s world upside down.
we love Oliver Miller’s new kind of mixtape: just as awesome and expressing just as much love as the classic mixtape, yet with a literary twist!
check out Lit Mixtapes #2 and #3 too!
#2: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/a-literary-mixtape-volume-2/
#3 http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/a-literary-mixtape-volume-3/
“Life is not going to be the same again. You—the kid—are not going to be the same.” - Janna Leyde
We’re so glad they didn’t stick to their day jobs!
Faulkner was a postmaster, Kafka an insurance agent, Brontë a governess. The day jobs of famous authors.
How to Share Books & eBooks with Our Troops
1. Books for Soldiers: “Once you are registered, you will be able to view the requests and send troops books, DVDs, games and relief supplies. You will also have access to our Pen Pal area and Post Card Jamboree. On average our volunteers fill thousands of requests a month.”
2. Operation Paperback sends paperbacks to troops overseas, including to the soldiers’ library in in Wardak Province, Afghanistan (pictured above).
3. Books-a-Million will let you select and purchase Books for Troops in a special program.
4. Books for Troops: “founded to send “care packages for the mind” for the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq by providing a variety of books that help ease their fears, loneliness, boredom, stress and to allow them a temporary escape from the horrors that they see and live daily. It was also founded to raise awareness of the sacrifices, both big and small, that our troops are making to protect us and to remind them that they are not forgotten.”
5. Follow this Google search to find many more options for sharing books with soldiers.
this image is just so amazing!
(Source: andrewscotts)
