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Come out and celebrate all of the bookish events happening in New York City this week. Grab your favorite literary tote bag and get ready for the final battle of Game of Totes at Housing Works. Yearning for some poetry? Check out our picks for Monday and Friday. Learn all the insider information about one of the most beloved Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes at Brooklyn Public Library on Tuesday. Watch a new adaptation of Moby Dick performed at WORD or share your stories at Housing Works. Tweet at us and tell us where you went!

We are in the midst of National Poetry Month, and Philly is a city of poetry love. It's a fact! How do we know? Just look at this full list of events. It's hard to keep up! How have you been spending this poetry month? Writing a poem a day? Learning to speak in iambic pentameter? Wishing there was a National Fiction Month? Whatever you're doing, whatever you're into, here are a few events to light up the literary places in your brain.

For this week’s Top 10 Tuesday hosted by The Broke & the Bookish, we’re sharing ten characters we’d like to check in with. I've decided to choose some of the most important characters in children’s literature because who doesn’t want to know what the future had in store for them?

In celebration of this year's National Library Week—and Library Workers' Day, Bookmobile Day, and Teen Literature Day—I’ve decided that between Netflix seasons, and on break from the Voorhees, Kimmy Schmidt will be working as a librarian. A gosh-darn good one too! Plus it’s a perfect place for her to fill in the fifteen years she missed while in the bunker and catch up on some reading.

So while you’re honoring your library by checking out books, eBooks, movies, giving your librarian a nice card for being awesome, or finally returning that book you’ve had since the fourth grade—you know who you are—Kimmy will be helping her friends in the best possible way, selecting books for them to read. And because Kimmy is so considerate these selections will be spoiler free.

Let's talk about book clubs. If you're like me, an introverted former English student, you may have an aversion to book clubs because they still feel too much like class, except they have wine. And what if you'd just rather be at home in your pajamas?

Never fear! In comes the Letter Writers Alliance, a worldwide organization of letter writers that hosts broadcasted 'online socials' so people all over can write letters together. Kathy Zadrozny and Donovan Beeson started this club in 2007, but this year, they're finally diving into running a mail-themed virtual book club. Their first pick is 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff. I wanted to find out more about the way a virtual book club can run – what does it have that a physical book club doesn't? How do you discuss the book? And most importantly, what do you eat? So here are some questions answered by Kathy & Donovan.

In this week’s Top 10 Tuesday, hosted by Broke & the Bookish, we’re supposed to share inspiring quotations from books. Which I could do, but I’m not going to. Instead, I have ten inspiring books for book lovers because sometimes we need a little reading encouragement.