On my recent
summer read tour with fellow Texas YA authors, we had a tour blog set up a couple of months prior to our events that garnered thousands of hits and counting.
Not exact matches
When I first
read To Kill a Mockingbird, for example, I was spending the
summer with my family in Venezuela, and
read the book sprawled on the stern of my uncle's boat as we
toured tiny uninhibited beaches off the coast.
In an effort to promote
reading for fun over the
summer, two Scholastic - branded RVs will
tour the country, hosting free, pop - up family
reading festivals at bookstores and public libraries in 30 cities nationwide.
• Speaking of
tours, we are intrigued by Brit poet Simon Armitage's empty - pocket plans to walk a 260 - mile stretch of the English coast this
summer, giving poetry
readings in exchange for food and shelter.
Artist Paul Behnke blogs a painting - rich photo
tour of current exhibitions in Chelsea including installation views of works by Louise Fishman, Ghada Amer, Chantal Joffe, Alice Neel and Joan Mitchell in The Women in Our Life at Cheim &
Read; Deborah Zlotsky in the
Summer Group Show at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts; Paul Resika: Flowers at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; and more...