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Happy World Book Day and welcome to the first entry in our National Year of Reading library blog.  Since this is the first time I've talked to you in this way there is a little bit of housekeeping that I need to do.  Firstly, let me introduce myself.  My name's Suzanne and I'll be your librarian-blogger for most of the time.  However, since contrary to popular belief we librarians don't spend our entire lives sat amongst the bookshelves, and do actually have a real-life to lead as well, I may occasionally have to leave you in the capable hands of one of my colleagues.  I was hoping that I might be able to bring you one or two celebrity bloggers along the way as well - no firm news as yet, but trust me I am working on it, and I promise that you will be the first to know if it happens!

If you want to comment on anything that I say, please do.  I'd love to know what you think - if only to prove that I'm not just sat here typing to myself!  We'd also love you to join us in our online discussion rooms, so why not have a look at the latest topics (when you've finished reading this of course!) and post your comments.

So down to business...we've been preparing for the National Year of Reading for a few months now, and although you might not have seen much happening yet, trust me we have been very busy behind the scenes.  We've lots of fab activities coming up including ReCon on 3rd April (a manga/anime event) and we're also hoping to host some author events later in the year.

We've also been doing a lot of talking about books and reading.  At the beginning of the year I wrote to a whole host of major and minor celebrities who have connections to the North Lincolnshire area.  I asked them, amongst other things, about their favourite books and places to read.  There were loads of responses, ranging from Dame Joan Plowright who loves Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, to Tony Jacklin who loves to read Golf News.  And just to tease you some more I'll leave you to try to guess...

• Who said that if they could only read one last thing in their life it would be a letter from God saying that there is an afterlife?
• Who liked to read Famous Five books as a child?
• Whose favourite word is "hope"?

Go to our Celebrity Readers pages to find the answers and for the full set of responses.

Anyway, I'll speak to you again soon.

Suzanne