This weekend, Open Book Chocolates will be at the Fall Market at The Family Room on Saturday.
Saturday, September 21st, 2024: The Market at The Family Room in Laytonsville, Maryland.
Handmade, Bean-to-Bar, Fair Trade Chocolate Bars | Literary-Inspired Flavors
Saturday, September 21st, 2024: The Market at The Family Room in Laytonsville, Maryland.
Please Note: Our online store will be closed for the duration of the Kickstarter campaign. You can access all our chocolate bar flavors as backer rewards via Kickstarter. Once the Kickstarter campaign is finished, we will reopen our online store.
“Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual celebration of the history and culture of the U.S. Latino and Hispanic communities… The event commemorates how those communities have influenced and contributed to American society at large.”
Library Card Sign-Up Month is “…an annual reminder that library cards empower individuals and communities by providing access to technology, multimedia content, and educational programming.”
“National Read a Book Day invites us ALL to grab a book we might enjoy and spend the day reading. “
“National Buy a Book Day was created in 2012 to educate people to the importance of books to our culture and civilization as a whole.”
How to Celebrate International Literacy Day and National Literacy Month:
READ READ READ!
Volunteer at your local library.
Donate books to community book drives, libraries, schools, and organizations.
Encourage your family and friends to participate.
Share your favorite books on social media.
“There was a silence — a comfortable replete silence. Into that silence came The Voice. Without warning, inhuman, penetrating . . . ‘Ladies and gentlemen! Silence, please! . . . You are charged with the following indictments.’” —And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
“‘We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.’“ —The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
“Established in 1982, Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community in shared support of the freedom to read.“
Celebrate Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday!
“The American Tolkien Society first proclaimed Hobbit Day and Tolkien Week in 1978.”
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.“ —The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.“ —The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
For some are sane and some are mad
And some are good and some are bad
And some are better, some are worse —
But all may be described in verse.—Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.“ —Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
“Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.“ —North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
“Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.“ —In Cold Blood by Truman Capote