What are your summer reading picks?

On the next Your Call, we'll open the lines to get your summer reading recommendations. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, the average person between the ages of 15 and 24 spends two hours per day watching TV and just seven minutes reading. What can we do to encourage reading? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are you reading? Do you have an all time favorite? It's Your Call, with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hunsanger, owner of Green Apple Books in San Francisco

David Kipen is owner of Libros Schmibros, a used bookstore and free lending library in Boyle Heights in Southern California.

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What's on your summer reading list?

On the next Your Call, we'll get suggestions from a librarian and an independent bookstore owner for great summer books -- new releases and old classics. There's nothing like having the perfect book along on a vacation or just to sit with under a tree. What do you think makes for good summer reading? Are you aiming to learn about a subject? Or get lost in a good story? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Which authors are really exciting you right now? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Laura Lent, librarian with the San Francisco Public Library system
Kevin Hunsanger, an owner of Green Apple Books

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Your Call 081108 Summer Reading Picks

What are your summer reading picks? On the next Your Call, we will have a conversation about books and why it has become so difficult to get Americans reading more literature. According to National Endowment survey, fewer than half of Americans are reading literature and Americans between the ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes reading. How much time do you spend reading books? And what are you reading now? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Doris Moskowitz, owner of Moe's Books in Berkeley.

Kevin Ryan, owner of Green Apple Books

David Kipen, National Endowment for the Arts' director of Literature, National Reading Initiatives, and program director of The Big Read

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