Annual Latino Book Festival a Real Page Turner - Los Angeles, California

“A big booth near the entrance of the 2006 Los Angeles Latino Book and Family Festival gave fabled bookman Rueben Martinez a bully pulpit Saturday from which to promote the value of reading.

“If you read 20 minutes a day, you’ll read a million words a year ”” and learn as many as 3,000 new words in the process,” said Martinez, a recent winner of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation grant and a keen student of the Latino literary scene.”

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