On April 23, 2012, readers in the US can hand out free books to encourage others to read! Thanks to the generosity of publishers, authors, bookstores, libraries and others, thirty different titles of various genres and reading levels will be provided to volunteers free of charge to distribute.
I know my metropolitan area has homeless shelters, orphanages, nursing homes, bus and train stations, and many other places where people may get lots of attention during holidays but not so much at any other time of year. Stopping by after work for a few minutes on a Monday night to hand out a few books to people who might need the escapism that reading offers seems like a slam dunk way to pay it forward for those of us who love the written word.
Some of the titles are:
- young adult fiction (The Hunger Games--soon to be a major motion picture)
- non-fiction (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)
- memoir (Just Kids--winner of the 2011 National Book Award)
- mystery (Q is for Quarry)
- science fiction (Ender's Game--won both the Hugo and Nebula)
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