Sujai Pillai of One Library Per Village created book bucket challenge after promising some good books to a little boy in a village in India.
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It started with a promise made to a little boy. It transformed into a social media phenomenon that has sparked a dialogue about literature and reading.
If you’ve been on Facebook in the past few weeks you’ve likely seen status updates passing through your newsfeed that refer to the #bookbucketchallenge. People are encouraged to list the 10 books that have most influenced their thought — and to challenge 10 other friends to do the same thing.
For book lovers, it made a nice break from the ice bucket challenge videos flooding their newsfeeds. And that’s what Sujai Pillai hoped would happen.
He’s the founder of One Library Per Village, an NGO whose mission, “to digitally empower every village citizen, is all about literacy and education that’s relevant in today’s world,” Pillai said by email.
The ice bucket challenge gave Pillai the idea to create the book bucket challenge. As the ice bucket was inspired by someone whose family member had Lou Gehrig’s disease, so Pillai was inspired by a single person.
“I had promised a boy in my village (in India) that I will give him some good books to read. So it just started with him,” Pillai said.
The #bookbucketchallenge has since taken off.
The meme, according to Facebook, has been around for a while, using the words “10 books” or “ten books.” When the social media giant sourced data based on those words in people’s status lines, here’s what they found.
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