Comments on: Santa Monica Citywide Reads

By: Roger, Gone Green

Roger, Gone Green — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:17:52 +0000

This is the perfect time to (re?)introduce you to http://www.bookcrossing.com, a fun way to set books free for other to read and even find free books for yourself too. . . tell em Ryuku sent you . . . I could use wings again . . .

By: Alliance Mark

Alliance Mark — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:15:20 +0000

Hello,

New here and wanted to commend all the great input I have read so far. I am just converting most of my company products to green and have been learning a lot each day about new/old products I can implement into my daily operations. Is there an area on this site that deals with vehicles?
Mark

By: Siel

Siel — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:52:40 +0000

Kristy — You should move here and join us! We have some nice restaurants :)

Okay — Off to get book — Library doesn’t seem to have any copies yet –

By: Kristy

Kristy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:31:38 +0000

Hey Siel! How’s life treating you? Long time no chat. :(

Anyhow, I LOVED this program when I lived out in East Lansing. I participated during two years and was able to read The Color of Water which was a FABULOUS book! I even got to meet James McBride!

I wish LA had something like this… maybe I’ll have to be adopted by Santa Monica? ;)

By: don hosek

don hosek — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:46:00 +0000

I met Audrey a few years back (before she wrote the novel) while she was working at the Newbery Library in Chicago and I was doing some research there (she was intrigued by the materials I was pulling from the archives). A really wonderful person and I'm looking forward to finally reading the book, although having read another time travel book that she recommended (Time and Again by Albert Finney), I was left a bit disappointed in that. The citywide reading programs are all over the place. I think Pasadena may have one and possibly even L.A. Chicago started theres back in 1997 or so, basing it on another program (I forget whose). Oh wait, here's a link from the LOC. It looks like it started later than I thought (2001), and the earliest program that they have is Seattle who started theirs in 1998. L.A.'s program seems to have stopped in 2005.

By: susan

susan — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:31:27 +0000

I absolutely loved that book!!

By: Jasmin

Jasmin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:19:45 +0000

I loved it–it made me cry and I’m not the kind who does that because of a book or movie.

By: david

david — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:53:45 +0000

My wife just finished that book and she really liked it. I did not know Santa Monica had something like that, I will have to look into it. Thanks Siel!