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- One Book, One Community…One Reader?
I’m taking part in a community project that seems a little dormant right now. New Hanover County’s One Book, One Community, whose mission is to “promote literacy and a love for reading, celebrate diversity, and foster a community of readers by providing opportunities to explore and discuss a common text,” has chosen Kazuo Ishiguro’s unsettling novel Never Let Me Go for this year.
- Dreams Reading Group Donations
From the great folks at Pomegranate Books (Grove Project articles| home page ):
Dear Pomegranate Friends,
I am writing to ask your help with the Dreams reading group. As many of you know, Dreams center for Arts Education is an after school arts program offered at the community Arts Center and at various housing communities around Wilmington. […]
- “Killer Diller”
Ben Steelman discusses local novelist and UNCW staffer Clyde Edgerton’s book “Killer Diller” in a recent post to his Star News books blog. Edgerton is busy with a new novel, the movie rights to Killer Diller and some other projects.
I think I made a mistake reading Killer Diller last year as my Edgerton foray. Because […]
- Books
Looks like Star News writer and community guy Ryan Tuck is in the middle of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and a series of posts about recent reads. (May also be reading only books that leap into your consciousness because they’re assigned or because they’re being made into movies or have authors who for one reason […]
- Ecotone 5th edition release party at WHQR studios
We’re heading out of town this weekend, but the local literary journal Ecotone is having a release party for its latest edition in the studios of WHQR on Saturday, where GP writer David works. Jill McCorkle, whose recent AAUW reading Rachel really enjoyed, will be there, along with a silent auction and other good stuff.
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- Re: Re: Kindle
I agree completely with local writer and book critic Ben Steelman (http://books.starnewsonline.com) that earlier versions of the e-book have seemed like so much grist in the mill of retro innovation (trackback):