Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library The 2024 Season of Our Community Reads is around the corner! Pick THE Book Party Four contenders will be presented for you to vote your choice for the 2024 Season of Our Community Reads. If you have not received an invitation and wish to be included in the voting event on September 28 let us know! Space is limited! Our Community Reads is a program designed to bring together, around one book, members of the Santa Cruz County community. A series of events relating to themes in the selected book takes place from late January through early March. |
The winning book for the last Season of OCR Mary Coin by Marisa Silver “… critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention — a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their chance encounter.” |
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click here to support Our Community Reads and keep it vibrant in the future!
We are a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, all donations are tax deductible (Tax ID: #94-2612557)
Here are a few images of events of the 2023 Season of Our Community Reads
We have just completed the process of reading and selecting four wonderful books as finalists for the 2024 Season of Our Community Reads.
On September 28 we will hold a voting event for community members to select the winning book for the next season of OCR –– our 7th season! Contact us by e-mail at [email protected] Donate: click here to support Our Community Reads! We are a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, all donations are tax deductible. (Tax ID: #94-2612557). Visit our Facebook page! |
Our Community Reads
"It is so important to support literacy and critical thinking, especially in these current times. Thank you all for your hard, important work." Jerry Solomon, Ph.D., Panelist, HIV/AIDS in the 80's "This was a great series of events that really showed how reading is not a static, solitary thing but a rich, engaging, exploration that opens eyes and minds and ears. The dialogue and discussion were the best part." Stephen Palumbi, Co-author, Death & Life of Monterey Bay. "I am honored to have been a part of the Our Communities Read program! What a fantastic model, to use books to bring people together and take meaningful action. In the case of our book, action towards the collective goal of protecting the places we love." Carolyn Sotka, Co-author, Death & Life of Monterey Bay. |