Hey Hoosiers
The Indianapolis public library is currently doing this amazingly awesome thing with my books called Pass the Book. Hoosier readers should check it out and participate; in fact, anyone working in libraries should check it out, because you should totally steal this idea.
posted by John Green @ Wednesday, October 07, 2009
13 Comments
13 Comments:
I want to participate! Too bad I live in the Chicago area, not the Indianapolis area. Sad times.
Do you do a lot of things with your local libraries? I can't imagine how awesome it'd be to have a well-known, respected author living right by you and your library.
sad times here, also. I live in the Milwaukee area...
I always wish that people would leave notes in books like I do...it's kind of the same idea as Pass the Book. Only it doesn't move out of your library, so it's not quite as...awesome?
If only we could afford to do this in Providence... but thanks for all the props to libraries, Mr. Green. We need the love.
this makes me happy cause our school is participating :) starting next week we pass the books out to go out into the world !
I dropped one off at The Skokie PL. http://www.imcpl.org/pass/single.php?lid=594
All I can hope for is maybe one will find its (it's? its.) way to me, which is doubtful because I;m all the way in New Jersey. Maybe we'll start something as awesome as this soon. *crosses fingers*
Hey John, so I gave a friend of mine Looking for Alaska last Christmas, then he called me yesterday to tell me he'd finally read it haha.
Then last night at two in the morning, I got this text from him: "Dude im drunk and randoomly thiok of alaska dead and get sad"
Just thought you'd appreciate hearing that...how you're disturbing the lives of random college kids all around America with your heartbreaking musings on mortality...FTW.
My high school cross-country coach and all-around life-mentor, who is currently teaching in a middle school in northern Washington state, is also doing a "Pass The Book" activity with Paper Towns amongst some of his students, except it involves actually writing thoughts, comments, and questions to the next reader in the margins of the book before passing it on.
They're going to give the finished product to their teaching assistant as a gift.
Even John's books NFTBA.
Speaking of Alaska's effects on students, (^) there is a girl in a few of my classes who resembles what I pictured to be Alaska so much that I referred to her as that once...my interlocutor was thoroughly confused.
So you're doing "Where's George" except you're stroking your ego at the same time?
(if you don't get the reference...)
http://www.wheresgeorge.com/
I think it's the Indianapolis Public Library that is doing the copying. There are already over 800,000 people from 130 countries exchanging books throughout the world using Book Crossing. Anyone can participate. Just go buy a copy of John's book (or any other book) and sign up with Book Crossing.
In fact, I just went and looked at Book Crossing for John's books and found no registered copies of Looking for Alaska, 15 registered copies of An Abundance of Katherines, and no registered copies of Paper Towns.
GAHHHHHHH.
ok i wanted to post on something of yours that had the least comments out of all your things (youtube, twitter, your blog, the ning etc...)
and i have to alert you to something.
some SICK person is putting kiddie porn on the this is not tom forums, especially on "original TINT clues," AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET IT DOWN. there's no "report" button, and i don't know how to contact the moderator of that site, and i don't know how much power you have there, but it's got to stop. can you do something about it? you kind of have some pull here on the internet.
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