By Daily Press staff
Read any good books lately? The Santa Monica Citywide Reads Advisory Committee is inviting 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 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, book selected was “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 and 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., (310) 458-8600. On-line suggestion forms are available at www.smpl.org/cwr. Suggestions will be accepted until Aug. 14. Getting better all the time
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 15, 2006. Read the original PDF.