Book People Unite

I was planning to talk about John Milton's Paradise Lost (which we've been reading the past few weeks in Brit Lit). However since I have nothing too new to say about it (He was another one of the authors who enjoyed combining science, mythology, and religion within his writing, and did a swell job as far as I can tell), I'll summarize what I would have said: 

He does a fabulous job of taking the Biblical account of the time surrounding the fall (the story of Adam & Eve eating the forbidden fruit) and making it more storylike. He takes very 2D people and turns them into 3D characters. Adam and Eve are not really mentioned a whole lot throughout the Bible so not much is known, which is ok. But for the sake of literary entertainment and poetic expression Milton gives them motives and emotions and dialogue. Its nice, and even though fictional, inspired a lot of questions (for me any way) about what we ARE told about Adam and Eve in the Bible. Quite, quite intriguing. 

Now that I just vomited that topic I'd like to address the main focal point of this post. I stumbled across this little gem just before coming here to post:

Pardon the terrible, terrible lyrics (the message is good... but seriously? This video is promoting the works of many wonderful wordsmiths, you'd think some splendid lyricist would join the cause) but note two AWESOME things about this video: 

 A) Its about books, children's books at that! Quite a noble cause if I do say so myself. 

B) Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr.. 

If you'd like to 'pledge' that you'll do your part in encouraging literary love in the younger generations you can do so here. Or if you'd just like to read up on the the movement go here. 

Thanks for reading,

Jessica