Shauna one of my BookFinder.com colleagues found two neat posts on Boing Boing today and I wanted to share them with you.
First. Today is Bloomsday, and if you download this Mp3 you can hear the one and only James Joyce reading from his own Ulysses. If that link dosen't work try this mirror link
Second. If you are living in Canada, more specificly Ontario, there is a Book Drive for Aboriginal Youth happening until the 21st of June which is collecting books to send to isolated communities in Canada's north. Here is the description from the original post:
If you live in Ontario, or want to (quickly!) send some books to a good cause,
the Lieutenant Governor of the province is doing his annual drive for new books
for kids living in remote First Nations communities. These are generally small,
isolated communities located deep in the northern boreal wilderness. Most have a
population under 1000 and are accessible only by aircraft. Kids in these
communities often have access to only old books in bad condition, so our
province's Lieutenant Governor launched this annual effort several years ago to
refresh community libraries with up-to-date titles.
The deadline, June 21, is only a few days away, unfortunately. If someone
from outside Ontario REALLY wants to help out, feel free to get hold of me
directly at [email protected] and you can make arrangements to send a book or two to
me, and I'll get it into the donation stream. But for those of you who live in
Ontario, or nearby (I'm lookin' at you, folks in northern New York, Michigan,
Minnesota, etc.!) this is a great chance to get some new reading material into
the hands of kids who really, really need it.
Happy Bloomsday everyone!
Orca author Troy Wilson has just launched his “Be a Book Hero” project. For every twenty dollars donated, he’ll send an autographed copy of Perfect Man to any school library (of the donor’s choice) in North America and donate $7.50 to either Love of Reading (Canada) or Reader to Reader (USA). Also included in the package to be sent to the schools will an 8 1/2 x 11 color sketch of Troy Wilson as the superhero of the donor’s choosing, with a caption that reads, “What are your super powers?”.
This is a great opportunity to show your support and help get books into schools. More info about how to get involved here.
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