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Fiction Friday: Update

We are restarting Fiction Friday, our previously popular initiative where each week we will post on the blog a marvellous Q&A featuring various college staff discussing what they love to read and why, along with some wildcard questions. 

We love talking about books - it's a great way to start conversations, or discover new reads, not to mention building a rapport with kindred spirits who also love talking about books. 

We will be featuring one post per week, with one lucky college staff member talking about their literary life.

We've been really busy in the interim - here's some highlights:

  • Currently we are tweeting about our 23 Days of Wellbeing - this was inspired by the BRIT Challenge, and we are selecting 23 books for 23 days that we love and relate to living a happy, healthy, well life. 

  • Our Word of the Week continues to grace each seven days with a new and intriguing word choice that expands vocabulary and showcases our fantastic resource, the Oxford English Dictionary!
  • Our Wellbeing Area contains a curated selection of books covering mental health and wellbeing topics for young adults and the college community - you can browse the selection here: https://tinyurl.com/YCWellColl  
  • We've taken part in a number of wider literacy initiatives, including giveaways of great titles for World Book Night, and writing spine poetry for World Poetry Day:

  • We've created displays to educate, entertain and empower, including LGBT History Month, Holocaust Memorial Day, Black History Month and more.
  • And we have continued to do what we do best - help and support our students to succeed, whether by issuing books, maintaining our two study centres, delivering information literacy sessions or ordering new and fantastic stock to aid their learning!
Happy Reading!

You can find us on Twitter as @YC_Reading



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  1. Anonymous8 March 2024 at 06:30

    Hello, are you still running the reading blog?

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