A New World Record?

Southfield, MI, City leaders are lobbying the Guinness Book of Records to create a new category for most books read by a community. Until Guinness makes a decision, the accomplishments of city readers are being tracked on southfieldreads.com. Here’s the Full Story. The reading program is the brainchild of 46th District Judge Stephen Cooper and Mayor Brenda Lawrence.


“The challenge has changed my lifestyle. I’m no longer watching a bunch of disposable things on TV because I’m busy reading, In our busy lives, the love of books just isn’t there anymore, and reading is becoming a dying art,”