July 29, 2009
By Kristen Tripodi
Syracuse, NY- This week the city of Syracuse celebrates Art Week, with different events around the community. At the Onondaga County Public Library last night, Nancy Pearl discussed her summer reading recommendations, to a packed auditorium. Pearl is an award winning author and former librarian, who started the "One Book, One Community" initiative. Pearl started the initiative in Seattle, Washington, but the idea has spread across the country and many groups like CNY Reads have started up.
By Kristen Tripodi
Syracuse, NY- This week the city of Syracuse celebrates Art Week, with different events around the community. At the Onondaga County Public Library last night, Nancy Pearl discussed her summer reading recommendations, to a packed auditorium. Pearl is an award winning author and former librarian, who started the "One Book, One Community" initiative. Pearl started the initiative in Seattle, Washington, but the idea has spread across the country and many groups like CNY Reads have started up.
Kathy Osmond a Public Relations Representative says the CNY Reads is a local program organized by the library, based on Pearl's initiative. The goal of CNY Reads is to encourage people to read the same book and discuss their views on different themes. The CNY Reads program started in 2001. This year they chose the book March, by Geraldine Brooks.
Previous Book Selections have been:
-Sixty Poems, by Charles Simic
-Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
-The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
-The North Star Conspiracy, by Miriam Grace Monfredo
-The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
-The Works of Arthur Miller
-A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines
Pearl's talk was a free event sponsored by CNY Reads and the Onondaga County Public Library.
-Sixty Poems, by Charles Simic
-Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
-The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
-The North Star Conspiracy, by Miriam Grace Monfredo
-The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
-The Works of Arthur Miller
-A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines
Pearl's talk was a free event sponsored by CNY Reads and the Onondaga County Public Library.
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