Santa Monica Citywide Reads Seeks
Book Suggestions for 2006t

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:       July 11, 2005
Contact:  Julie MacDonald, Public Services Librarian, (310) 434-2644

The Santa Monica Citywide Reads Advisory Committee invites community input for the 2006 book selection. 

Citywide Reads’ mission is to encourage a culture of reading and to promote book-centered dialogue in Santa Monica.  Book selection criteria include:  fiction, amenable to good group discussion, broad appeal, challenging but not exclusive, and available in a variety of formats, such as paperback and audiobook.  In 2003, Santa Monica read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie, and in 2004, The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood.  The recent Citywide Reads 2005 featured Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.  

To make a suggestion for Citywide Reads 2006, complete an on-line suggestion form at www.smpl.or/cwr or call (310) 458-8600.  Suggestions will be accepted until August 8.

For more information, contact Citywide Reads at the Santa Monica Public Library, 1324 Fifth Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401, (phone) 458-8600, or visit the Citywide Reads website www.smpl.org/cwr.

This page was last updated on 07/18/05.