[Magdalen] One Book, One Chicago

[Scott Knitter]

One can really delve into the Chicago program; I think it selects just one
book per year, and there are tons of events at the main library and some of
the branches. If the author is still with us and able to attend events,
they often do, especially Chicago-based authors, of course. Usually there
are other arts brought in, like music pertaining to a period or place;
various discussions of issues as well as the book itself and related works;
some really creative events for kids, families, intergenerational stuff,
3-D printing, whatever can be made to relate to whatever the book is about.

I loved Devil in the White City, and the most recent selection, Philip K.
Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the basis for the Blade Runner
films).

https://www.chipublib.org/one-book-one-chicago/

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 4:32 PM Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a (presumably similar) One Book, One Philadelphia program, but I've
> never participated in it.
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 4:39 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Our new selection in the Chicago Public Library's "One Book, One Chicago"
> > reading program is Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Sixth Extinction: An
> Unnatural
> > History."
> >
> > Anyone read it?
> >
> > I was online when the email arrived, so I was able to go out to Amazon
> and
> > borrow one of the library's quota of Kindle copies for three weeks. Even
> > though every day lately is nothing but work or hurriedly
> > fulfilling occasional church duties and then scuttling back to work, so I
> > don't know when I'll be reading it.
> >
> > Still makes me happy to have the thought, anyway.
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>
>
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>
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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA