Fall Issue, 2014

“Bring A Book & Share” now receives over 12,000 visitors annually. I always look forward to meeting them, watching them surrender to the magic spell of their silent companions and heading back home with a cartful of treasures. Read-Cycling will be celebrating its fifth anniversary in December. Still a very simple set up with no full-time staff, the organisation has been entrusted with more than 35,000 quality used books and helped over 20,000 of them find new homes. We also, as at November 2014, made happen four reader’s carnivals, 12 authors’ sharing sessions, 24 school programmes, alongside many other community projects. What we have accomplished far exceeded what we originally expected we could do. For this, we were indebted to the synergy with like-minded organisations and sponsors, which gave a young establishment a lot of trust in helping realise some of its goals. We were also deeply grateful to our colleagues, friends When reality blends with fantasy, dreams can come true. For me, that is Read-Cycling. Cynthia Lau 劉庭善 (BSocSc 1986) Founder of Read-Cycling 書送快樂 www.read-cycling.org and families. They never hesitate to perform the sweatiest of tasks. In the movie Field of Dreams , farmer Ray, played by Kevin Costner, hears a voice that whisper “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets it as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and people flock in to enjoy the games. Read-Cycling holds a used-book collection campaign regularly at HKU. 39 SERVICE 100