Free L.A.
Troy Corley, Editor
(Reviewer - Carolyn Howard-Johnson)
2004 Corley Publications
ISBN: 0970624212

The Ultimate Free Fun Guide to the City of Angels.

Looking for fun in Los Angeles but don't want to spend big bucks? Here are hundreds of free, fun things to do in the L.A. area, from Hollywood to Malibu to Pasadena. Discover free museums, free botanical gardens, free festivals, free films, free concerts & more. It's a Promise! This is a book that will pay for itself!

Associate Reviewer Carolyn Howard-Johnson writes:

As the author of The Frugal Book Promoter, I am the queen of all things thrifty. Without reservation, Troy Corley's Free L.A. does it for me.

As an Angeleno who misses the days before Prop. 13 when my adopted town was the land of the free, I am sick & tired of blowing a hundred bucks to schlepp a small family to a museum or the zoo & Knotts Berry Farm. Well, fugeddaboutit!

Free L. A. to the rescue. A small book, its $12.95 cost will easily be made up by the first trek I take using its advice. It plots out weekends to so much that is FREE in LA -- from concerts to doings that celebrate Cinco de Mayo -- a reader won't know where to start.

Because this book covers LA so well, it is only natural it should also cover where to find FREE parking, a not-so-minor detail for the peace of mind of anyone on wheels in LA, & that includes everyone. The edit&and contributors (a whole phalanx of them!) also know that even locals will appreciate the map coordinates to The Thomas Guide.

So, what suggestion did I find the most useful, next to that F word in the title? I liked that, in spite of having lived in the center of this nutshell for more than three decades, I found NEW things to do, & places to go. Would you believe Fredericks of Hollywood's Lingerie Museum? I also loved the list of FREE museum days. Those places that charge eight bucks for an adult ticket, actually give a visit away but you have to know when to go. This feature alone will prove invaluable when my relatives from the Rockies descend on my doorstep.

www.freela.net
(01/30/05)

Carolyn
2005©Carolyn Howard-Johnson
A RebeccasReads.Com Associate Reviewer

Associate Reviewer Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the award-winning author of This Is The Place, & her book of creative nonfiction, The Harkening: A Collection Of Stories Remembered, has won three awards.

She has signed a contract with Star Publish for the release of her new how-to book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was just named USA Book News Best Books of 2004 Award. She lives & entertains out-of-towners in LA. www.starpublish.com.

She writes about Utah's culture, tolerance & other subjects. Her fiction, nonfiction & poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies & review journals. She has appeared on TV & radio stations nationwide.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is an instructor for UCLA's Writers' Program. She loves to travel & has studied writing at Cambridge University, United Kingdom; Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia, & Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, as well as UCLA & the University of Southern California.

Her editorial contributions include:
No One Book Pleases Everyone
Publisher Raises the Ire of its Authors
A Rant About Arrogance.

Her website is:www.carolynhowardjohnson.com