Aptos Library Friends Want Ideas for Our Community Reads

Hello friends of Our Community Reads and the Aptos Library. We hope that you book lovers are finding the time to read during this very strange reality that we are living in today.

The pandemic has not curtailed our enthusiasm for Our Community Reads program, and our dedicated committee of the Friends of the Aptos Library is actively busy and in serious planning mode.

Naturally, we are not sure what to expect for how we will be hosting events next year, but we do know that we will find a way to engage all of you in some way, shape, or form!

… And we promise not to select a book with themes of a pandemic!

Sometime in the near future you will be notified about our Voting Event planned for September. There is a strong likelihood that it will be a virtual get together via ZOOM. What we do know for sure is that we will present you with 3 or 4 very appealing titles for you to vote on.

As in past seasons, your vote will determine the selected book for the upcoming 2021 Season of Our Community Reads.

We hope you enjoyed the events of our 2020 Season when we celebrated Patriot Number One, by Lauren Hilgers. We were fortunate to be able to provide a full calendar of events including an author talk, with the last event ending just one week before the stay-at-home orders were imposed. What lucky timing for us!

We would love to hear from you! If you have a book that you think would resonate with our community as a whole, is not more than 325 pages (give or take) and is appropriate for high school students 17 years or older, please reply to this email with the title and author.

Thank you so much for your continued support and enthusiasm. We hope you stay well, wear your masks, wash your hands, and we’ll see you, one way or the other, sometime in the near future.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Aptos Chapter of the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Library: Jim Bourne, Bobbie Edgin, Pat Emard, Kris Franceschi, Melanie Freitas, Gale Farthing, Barbara Gaebe, Ofelia García, Teri Handzel, Coni Hendry, Sandy Laue, Diana Mejia, Eileen Miller, Ginny Morris, Lynn McNussen, Debby Peronto, Jodi Pratt, Susan Schenck, Denise Ward, Eliot Weiss, and Tricia Wynne.