[image by Brian]
Goal for June: Read a book a day. Follow my reading list here.
If you can’t trade books with people you know, try sharing them with people you don’t.
Bookcrossing — which invites you to read a book, register it, then let it loose and see who ends up picking it up. Larry — who’s taking care of my Mut at the moment — is all about Bookcrossing and pretty much singlehandedly started a Bookcrossing movement at Velocity Cafe in Santa Monica.
Green reading tip: Let your books forge their own adventures
I tend to like to give books away on my blog — so in a sense I have my own Bookcrossing dealio, since I know where the books go. But right now, I’m really going forward with my book exchange party plans. It’s really happening, June 30.
I’m already a bit stressed out that I’ve invited more people than my studio apt. can hold. Hopefully, the guests’ll naturally stagger themselves, the early birds twittering out with their new books early, the night owls cashing in their tomes after midnight –
One problem: While I heart gmail, its habit of saving the emails of everyone I’ve ever sent an email to’s a bit of a prob for party-throwing. It’s pretty difficult to scan through a couple thou emails trying to check off all friends living in LA that might be into a book exchange party.
Which is to say — All friends reading this who feel slighted that I haven’t already invited you to the book exchange, it’s not cuz I don’t love you — It’s that my eyes started glazing over and accidentally skimmed over yr email. Just lemme know and I’ll add you on to the evite.
As usual, all this is unrelated to the latest book I read — very cerebral — and cerebrally stimulating:
Book read: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
June 16th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
i want to know what you thought of “to the lighthouse” - i read it for an intellectual history class. it was the first woolf i really truly enjoyed. i just dug up the response i wrote to reading it. apparently i was very taken by the notions of fluid times and identities, and how what _is_ is only what exists in people’s minds.
June 17th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Great post…Larry is a complete BookCrossing rockstar!!! He and the other BC’ers in Santa Monica/LA region have done an exceptional job over the years!
Best regards,
Scott
CEO BookCrossing
June 17th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Good luck with your goal! I have a similar one: read a book a day for a year. I’m posting the reviews on my blog. The review writing is taking longer than the book reading. I’m also hoping to release the majority of the books through BookCrossing.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:24 am
you should also try bookmooch.com (if you haven’t already). you directly trade your books with everyone all over the world (instead of waiting to come across one around the city)!
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:56 am
I liked To the Lighthose quite a bit. I like how not much really “happens,” in terms of plot — though I supposed quite a few peeps get unceremoniously killed off overall — but how so much happens in the mind.
Pussreboots — Good luck! Your goal’s 12 times more ambitious than mine –
m — Wrote about bookmooch recently! Good tip though :)