SANTA MONICA CITYWIDE READS SEEKS BOOK SUGGESTIONS FOR 2007
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:       July 11, 2006
Contact:  Nancy Bender, Public Services Librarian, (310) 458-8922
                Robert Graves, Public Services Librarian, (310) 458-2201, ext. 5956 

The Santa Monica Citywide Reads Advisory Committee invites community input for the 2007 book selection. 

The mission of Citywide Reads is to encourage a culture of reading and to promote book-centered dialogue in Santa Monica.  Book selection criteria include the following: fiction, amenable to good group discussion, broad appeal, challenging but not exclusive, and available in a variety of formats, such as paperback and audio book. 

In 2003, Santa Monica read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie; in 2004, The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood; and in 2005, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.   The recent 2006 Citywide Reads selection was Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer. 

For more information or to make a suggestion for Citywide Reads 2007, contact the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401, (310) 458-8600.  You may also complete an on-line suggestion form at www.smpl.org/cwr.  Suggestions will be accepted until August 14, 2006.

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