Onebookonenewpaltz.org
Title
One Book One New Paltz 2006 - The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Description
It all began in Seattle in 1998 when a librarian named Nancy Pearl came up with the idea of a program called “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book”. Nancy it seems was in the vanguard of the trend of people in a community reading and discussing the same book. She has become something of a cult figure complete with her own shushing action figure, TV talk show and she has published Book Lust and More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason. More importantly she kicked off the “One Book” projects that have sprung up in every state in the US plus Canada, Australia and the UK.
Last year inspired by Dean Gerald Benjamin, New Paltz launched its own “One Book One New Paltz” and in the first week of November 2005 we all read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon. It was a great success (take a look at this link to last year's program) and this year we’re doing it again! That’s right the committee has grown and the events are growing too. The book for 2006 book has already been selected and it is …ta da … The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat and we will be uniting the community around it in October. [...more]
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External Links
- Alexa: Onebookonenewpaltz.org
