1. May the Fourth be with you
Celebrating the Star Wars film franchise, Star Wars Day is observed by fans on May the Fourth, an obvious pun on the popular Jedi phrase “May the Force be with you.
Taking puns a step further, May 5 has come to be called “Revenge of the Fifth,” a play on “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” a day for fans to join the “dark side” and celebrate the Sith lords from the Star Wars movies.
2. Fully fan inspired
While Star Wars Day is a tribute to the movies made by George Lucas, Lucasfilm had nothing to do with the holiday’s creation or its ongoing observance.
Many of us have turned to artistic endeavors throughout the pandemic to fill some free time, writers included. While DC Public Library holds a number of titles about the “hard” side science and medicine of COVID-19, the books on this list explore the “soft” or social and psychological sides from both fiction and nonfiction perspectives. From a family travel memoir to a collection of meditations on what it means to be alone together, writers examine our lives since COVID-19 invaded, including a remarkable first-hand diary of COVID-19 in Wuhan.
Note: All titles are linked to their physical copies unless otherwise noted, and many are available as library e-books and/or e-audiobooks with OverDrive and its app Libby.
“Language is adaptable,” said the professor of English and creative writing at SUNY Plattsburgh. “That is one of the cool things about language. It’s always changing and incorporating the social milieu that we live in.” LGBTQIA is an example. “It’s even on college applications,” she said. “It’s a legal accepted phrase that did not exist five to 10 years ago. Our society is adapting to real sexualities that we have been in denial of for many, many centuries. The adaptability of language is a beautiful thing. “Language has muscle. It has an ingenious way of being fluid to what is happening to humans. New phrases are borne all the time.”
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