Like a Record Store Day for people who enjoy silence, World
Book Night is part of a campaign to encourage more people to pick up a book and
maybe even read it. On April 23rd, volunteers will make that task
even easier by distributing tens of thousands of specially selected books to
friends and neighbors. The international bid for a wider reading audience began
in 2011 and this year will include more than 20 author events in the US the day
before the big giveaway. Five of those events will be scattered around Los
Angeles from Leimert Park’s Eso Won books (Terry McMillan) to Malibu’s Diesel
bookstore (Jesse Andrews). The Grove’s Barnes & Noble will be hosting
prolific crime novelist Michael Connelly. The former Los Angeles Times reporter
has been running his reoccurring character Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch up and
down Los Angeles in thrillers like Angels
Flight and Echo Park for more
than twenty years but if reading isn’t your thing, you can always just watch
the film adaptations of his books The
Lincoln Lawyer and Blood Work.
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