Caldwell's second "Big Read" has begun: Throughout the late winter and into the spring, the entire Caldwell community is invited to read "The Shawl," by Cynthia Ozick, and participate in a slew of related events. You'll find details about this town-wide reading initiative on the Caldwell Public Library's site. Events are free, but some require registration and tickets.
"In some ways Caldwell is a small community - about 7,500 people living in just over a square mile - but The Big Read shows that the heart and soul of our town is immense," says Caldwell Public Library executive director Karen Kleppe-Lembo. "'The Shawl,' with its themes of tolerance, redemption and recovery, provides a unique focus to far-reaching discussions about community."
We're told the goal of The Big Read is to "restore reading to the center of American culture." In the age of iTunes, Tivo and video-on-demand, that should please the army of writers and editors who populate Baristaville. Hopefully all of Caldwell will get involved (though it really is hard to picture Caldwell's most famous fictional resident -- Tony Soprano -- with Ozick's book in hand). Meanwhile, what are you reading?
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Meanwhile, what are you reading?
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At the moment, Baristanet
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop
from my local library
After reading Revolutionary Road, I picked up The Collected Stories of Richard Yates.
The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Loved it.
Just finished "Olive Kitteridge," by Elizabeth Strout. Kind of sad, but beautifully written. Ready for something lighter and more upbeat now!
I'm working through a stack of books I picked up last time I was at the Montclair Book Center. Currently reading "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace.
If you love history, you'll love what I'm reading: The Island at the Center of the World, Russell Shorto.
All about the little known facts of Dutch Manhattan. Non-fiction.
Currently reading "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace.
The title of that book also happens to be the epitaph on his tombstone.
"First Marathons" by Gail Kislevitz
"The Big Three in Economics" by Mark Skousen
"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell.
Chicken - too funny, I picked up that book yesterday at the main branch of MPL... did you start it yet?
"The Nasty Bits" by Anthony Bourdain and "Too Fat to Fish" by Artie Lang, and, since school is closed this week, lots and lots of Clifford the Big Red Dog and Thomas the Tank Engine.
"Uncommon Arrangements" by Katie Roiphe, an useful reminder to all local would-be Bohemians out there that somebody else always got there first when it comes to tweakings in the institution of marriage.
And a combined volume of old master Henry Green's "Loving," Living" and "Partygoing." His novels are sort of for those who find Richard Yates too cheerful and upbeat, Liz.
Bklynnative,
Right on with "Too Fat to Fish"!
Just ordered "Madness Under the Royal Palms," by Laurence Leamer, a behind-the-dark-curtain look at Palm Beach society. Total trash read but a nice antidote to the stuff I have to read for work.