#fridayreads: National Wear Red Day

 

The first Friday in February is National Wear Red Day. In 2021 that day is February 5. The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women movement encourages people to wear red today to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease. For this week's Jessup Library blog post we are featuring books with red covers. Wearing red... red book covers... sometimes you start in one vein and end up in an entirely different one. Michael Gibney wrote Sous Chef: 24 hours on the line about culinary choreography in a New York restaurant. Maybe he started with dessert and moved backwards to appetizers! 

Another red-covered book you might like to explore is Born for This: how to find the work you were meant to do. If the work you were meant to do involves calligraphy may we offer The Calligraphy Bible. Scribbling and scratching could involve things one writes on paper or it might include Wicked Bugs: the louse that conquered Napoleon's army & other diabolical insects. The bugs have gone wild and are on the move! Bugs aside, Atomic Adventures answers an age-old question: why do we have nuclear submarines but not nuclear aircraft? 

We are coming to end of our red journey but have a few more recommendations. Jessup Library has books with the word "red" in the title. We have Raise the Red Lantern in a print edition, and Red Paint at Oxford: Sketches as well as The Red Lady in electronic format. And remember, time spent reading is good for your heart and soul.