The Georgia Center for the Book is touting the World Book Night [link] Participants get 20 books to distribute to people who aren't really readers. They decide who participates based on their statement of how they would give away the books. I'm thinking about it, but I'd have to figure out something to say by Wednesday. You have to have read and liked the book, so my choice would have to be between The Stand, The Hunger Games, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Kindred. I like Q is for Quarry, but giving someone a book in the middle of a long series doesn't strike me as something that would encourage reading.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ginger - Jan 29, 2012 5:29:13 pm PST #17707 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Kat - Jan 30, 2012 3:21:19 am PST #17708 of 28261
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I applied to give Absolute..Indian.
Amy - Jan 30, 2012 4:17:02 am PST #17709 of 28261
Because books.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a recognized group I could apply to donate to. There are a lot of underserved kids in this community, but I'm not sure what channel to give through.
Ginger - Jan 30, 2012 5:40:34 am PST #17710 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My thought was all the people in waiting rooms at Kaiser and the ER who sit there with nothing to read, waiting. I figure anyone who doesn't have a book there is either a nonreader or desperate for a book. One problem is that giving The Stand to sick people seems wrong.
erikaj - Jan 30, 2012 5:42:04 am PST #17711 of 28261
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. and it is also a billion pages.
Ginger - Jan 30, 2012 5:46:11 am PST #17712 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I could give it to people who look like they need doorstops.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 30, 2012 5:46:58 am PST #17713 of 28261
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was thinking about signing up and giving them away to people on the bus who didn't have books. But I am not sure I could actually talk to people and ask if they wanted a book.
Consuela - Jan 30, 2012 6:17:55 am PST #17714 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I was thinking about signing up and giving them away to people on the bus who didn't have books
I figure anyone on the bus who doesn't have a book, that's because they get carsick reading on the bus or they don't like to read.
There is a guy on my bus I'm watching read through CJ Cherryh. Right now he's just about to finish Cloud's Rider; I'm intrigued to see what he picks up next.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 30, 2012 6:23:39 am PST #17715 of 28261
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I figure anyone on the bus who doesn't have a book, that's because they get carsick reading on the bus or they don't like to read.
In Rochester we have a lot of underserved kids on the bus, because there aren't separate school buses for middle and high school. They just get bus passes for the city buses. So I was thinking more of them than the adults, but again, not sure I want to talk to them, because they also tend to be loud and obnoxious at times.
Ginger - Jan 30, 2012 6:35:11 am PST #17716 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm not good at talking to strangers, so I figured I'd print out why they're getting a free book and why I think it's worth reading and stick it in the book.