Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Books that give you the chills?

The Christchurch earthquake was several months ago, and for the vast majority of the country life is unaffected and we tend to forget. But for many of those in Christchurch life is far from normal, and the things we take for granted, like books and libraries are still unreachable. This is where little articles in the paper, like this one a week or so back make me smile.

Resourceful Cantabrians have come up with a great way to get books to people, and a bit of community spirit happeneing along the way, with book exchanges in fridges - yes, you read correctly, in fridges - unplugged of course. Fridges have appeared on vacant sites stocked with books people no longer want, and if you need a read you can pop along and grab one, and even better, chuck in one of your old reads for someone else. Brilliant.

You can read about it here:

Fridge a Magnet for Book Lovers.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Vanda - Thanks for the news about this; this is a great idea!

Dorte H said...

Ah, finally some healthy take-away!