Nancy Pearl is a real person, a librarian, who made it to "action figure"-dom (available from accoutrements.com). From the back of the packaging: "Accomplishments: Director of Library Programming and the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. Nancy is best known for the, 'If All Seattle Read The Same Book' project. This idea of one city reading the same book at the same time has been imitated in cities around the world."This finally seemed to reach the Bay Area in 2005 in San Francisco and Berkeley. 2006 seemed to be the year of many Bay Area cities launching their first years ...
Here are Bay Area "city reads" that we've found. If you know of others, please post any info in a comment to this posting.
The original idea came from Seattle in 1996.
Hummingbird's Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea, San Francisco, Sept.-Nov. 2006.
China Boy, Gus Lee, Sept.-Oct. 2005.
Funny in Farsi,, Firoozeh Dumas, and The Circuit, Francisco Jimenez, Berkeley, kicked off 9/30/06.
House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros, 2005
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, Redwood City, May 2006.
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri, Walnut Creek, Sept.-Oct. 2006
Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas, Palo Alto, 10/10/06-11/10/06
In the MV Reads Together evaluations returned so far, over 60 books have been suggested for future years. If you have a book suggestion, please post it in a comment to this posting and include your ideas for activities for your book suggestion that have wide appeal.
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