Windansea’s Little Free Libraries

I greeted the new year with a broken wing. While navigating Utah’s early-season snowboarding conditions, I took a tumble and broke my right arm.

Living with my dominant arm in a sling is unfashionably frustrating for an on-the-go gal like me. While my recovery has decelerated my life to a snail’s pace, I’ve discovered a silver lining: My rekindled love of reading.

Thanks to the five Little Free Libraries located within a short walking distance of my Windansea home, there’s no need for me to venture far to find my next good read.

Built with love by neighborhood bookworms, each charming Little Free Library projects a distinctive perspective shaped by the literary preferences of its adjacent residents.

Conceived to promote literacy and build community, the program’s “take a book, leave a book” model flourished in La Jolla during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since then, countless books have circulated in and out of my reading room. But my snowboarding injury is the catalyst that carved out the downtime to lose myself in the donated literary treasures that inspire La Jolla’s beloved Little Free Library network.