October is National Book Month, so this week’s poetic Sundays is devoted to wonderful poems about books and reading. I am guessing I might have shared a few of these before but here they are again, for they are worth reading many times over.

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Poetic Sundays: Wonderful Poems About Books and Reading

Recently

On My Blog and On the Homefront

Posts on my blog since my last scribblings with books and more reading for each of these days..

• A Boy and a House: Where Pictures Speak
• A Day and Some Ways to Evaluate Your Life & Make it Better!
• 13 Interesting Facts About Spooky Creepy Halloween Handpicked For You
• 10+ Epic Books and More for Your Classroom Reading List
• Once Upon a Wonderful (mon)Day
• Sunday Scribblings #198: Awit of Beautiful Melody for You

Upcoming

On My Blog and On the Homefront

Next up, looking forward to the festival of lights, or Deepavali, towards the end of this month. And a quieter week on the homefront. As for the blog, I do need to do some serious catching up

Celebrations

Literary Celebrations (close-to-it also!)

• Literary birthdays this week include:  Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Amy Emphron on 21st October; Ann Rule, Debbie Macomber, Deepak Chopra, Jayanta Mahapatra, and Doris Lessing on October 22nd; Aravind Adiga and Michael Crichton on October 23rd; Amor Towles, Mark Tully, Stephen Covey, Bob Kane, and Emma Donoghue on Oct 24th; Anne Tyler on the 25th of Oct; Pat Conroy and Vishwas Mudagal on Oct 26th; Jonathan Stroud, Sylvia Plath, and Zadie Smith on the 27th;
• October 21st is National Archives Day
• The 27th is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Foodie Celebrations

• October 21st brings with it International Nacho Day and given the season, it is natural to celebrate National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day on this date! It also happens to be National Apple Day
• The 22nd is National Nut Day 
• And the 23rd October celebrates the delish National Boston Cream Pie Day
• The 24th is simply – National Food Day
• While October 25th is World Pasta Day and National Breadstick Day
• It is National Pumpkin Day on the 26th
• Followed by National American Beer Day on the 27th of October
  

Other Celebrations and Observations

• It is ​Back to the Future Day on the 21st as well as Celebration of the Mind Day. Plusssss, it is National Reptile Day
• While the 22nd is National Color Day 
• The 23rd of October celebrates a beautiful and majestic animal; it is International Snow Leopard Day
• United Nations Day is on the 24th of October
• The 25th happens to be National Fine Art Appreciation Day and World Lemur Day
• Followed by Make a Difference Day on October 26th
• And the 27th happens to be ​National Mentoring Day

Wrapped Up: My Sunday Scribblings

So dear reader, you have reached the end of this Sunday Scribblings! As always, I welcome your thoughts, comments, and suggestions about this post. Do you have favorite poem about books and/or reading? Do share it/them with me. And, of course, do let me know if you plan to celebrate any of these mentioned celebrations this coming week/month?

Linking this to the Sunday Post over at the Caffeinated Reviewer and the Sunday Salon. And for the Ultimate Blog Challenge