One City One Book ?

Submitted by kbuxton on Thu, 02/27/2003 - 05:07
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Have any of you participated in the One City One Book program that's going on around the country?

http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/one-book.html has a list of some of the books. I know there's one for Portland and one for the suburb I live in, but I've not read either.

I think it's a neat idea but I'm not sure how much it's catching on.

dgeiser1302/27/2003

It's a very neat idea and I've read about the efforts in other cities but unfortunately Columbus, Ohio hasn't done anything, yet. If I recall correctly, wasn't there a city that couldn't decide what book to read so they called the whole thing off?

taryn02/27/2003

i wasn't involved when i lived there (moved last may), but rochester NY seems to be actively involved in this. the link is to Writers & Books, a thriving literary organization i once interned for, so my bet is it's catching on pretty well there.