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Welcome
to Reading
Together:
Learning, Caring,
and Community at Lane
2008-2009 Reading Together--
The Reading Together Project proudly announces the book selection for 2008-2009 as "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. Join Lane Community College students, staff and members of the local community as we experience the adventure of Christopher Boone.
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Description:
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He related well to animals but has no understanding of man's emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.
This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years." --from the publisher
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"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent." --The Boston Globe
"Moving...think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sack's real-life stories." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy." --Ian McEwan, author of Atonement
"Brilliant...Delightful...Very moving, very plausible--and very funny." --Oliver Sacks
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2007-2008 Reading Together--War: Survival, Loss, and Reconciliation
Reading Together in the News
Register-Guard: "LCC Brings War and Reconciliation Author"
Eugene Weekly: "Reading Together Author Louise Steinman"
Lane Community College Welcomes Reading Together Author Louise Steinman
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Thank you to the Cressey Family Charitable Trust for partnering to make this visit possible. |
Louise Steinman, this year's Reading Together author, will be in residency on at Lane Thursday April 3rd and Friday April 4th. This is the very first week of Spring Term, so we hope you can plan ahead now, so that you can take advantage of the rich array of opportunities associated with this event.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
10am-Noon -- Keynote, reading, Q&A, book-signing; LCC CML 102-103
2pm-3:30pm -- Q&A/informal discussion & book-signing; LCC CML 102
7:30pm -- Reading, Q&A, book-signing at
Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette
Friday, April 4, 2008
10am-Noon -- "Veteran Reintegration" Panel Discussion: Louise Steinman and area veterans (including students), LCC CML 102-103
7:30pm -- "Defining the Struggle: Exploring War and Reconciliation in the Context of Social Injustice" Panel Discussion at the Many Nations Longhouse on UO campus; Louise Steinman and members of our region's diverse communities
Throughout the week:
Lane Community College Art Exhibit: "Eyes Wide Open Oregon: the Human and Economic Cost of War" |
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Now in its fifth year, Reading
Together: Learning, Caring, and Community at Lane,
is an exciting year long, campus-wide project centered around something
absolutely basic to education: READING. Through the mechanism of
two closely linked books, we explore issues connected with our
college’s core values: Learning, Diversity, Innovation, Collaboration
and Partnership, Integrity, and Accessibility.
In conjunction with the 2007-2008 theme, War: Survival, Loss, and Reconciliation, Reading
Together sponsors activities centered around these books, including
course involvement,
performing
arts productions,
art
exhibits, lectures, guest speakers, author visits, forums, films, student
presentations, service projects, and more. Reading Together reaches across
traditional borders—borders between campus employee and student
groups; borders between disciplines; borders between different ways of
learning, different life experiences, different areas of interest.
Join us on November 7th as two local writers share their war-related experiences and writings.
In connection with Steinman's memoir, the Reverand Edgar Peara of Eugene, a WWII vet who served in Europe, Africa, and then in Okinawa and the occupation of Korea, will share from his editorial essays.
Kim Findling Cooper, a freelance writer from Bend, will share from her essay "Witnessing" about her experiences accompanying her father, a Vietnam veteran, to an Army reunion in Texas in 2004. |
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