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Community Read: Cover to Cover
Click here to see our schedule of discussions and more!
What if everyone in Carlisle read the same book and then joined all those readers in talking about it? That's the idea behind the community read. Throughout the month of January, readers in Carlisle will buzz about a single book. The second annual community read in Carlisle, Cover to Cover, begins January 2010. The book selected by Carlisleans is The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. Pick up your copy at the library, thumb through it, devour it, skim it, or listen to it, whatever it takes to form an opinion about the book and the subjects within. Then talk about it with friends, neighbors, at the library or transfer station, or online. Click here to subscribe to our monthly enewsletter for updates.
Community reading projects, which connect people to literature through reading and discussion, have exploded in popularity in recent years. Usually organized by libraries, they bring members of a community together to read and discuss the same literary work. The "One Book" movement began in 1998 when Nancy Pearl, executive director of the Washington Center for the Book in the Seattle Public Library, initiated "If All Seattle Read the Same Book."
For more information about Cover to Cover, or to volunteer to help with Carlisle's 2nd annual Community Read, please email carlislecovertocover@lists.mvlc.org.
Community Read Events
- Thursday, January 14, at 7 p.m.Open Book Group: Join guest leader Ann Rosas for an informal gathering and discussion of The Nine.Click here to read more about this program
- Tuesday, January 19, at 10:30 a.m.Open Book Group: Join guest leader Jennifer Albanese and Town Moderator Wayne Davis for an informal gathering and discussion of The Nine. Click here to read more about this program
- Wednesdays, January 13 and 20, 1:30 to 3 p.m. Two Justices from Boston: Holmes and Brandeis, lectures by Professor Gary Hylander. Click here to read more about this program
- Thursday, January 21, 7 p.m. The Court and the Future: A Panel Discussion. This anticipated discussion will be moderated by Phil Lotane. Participants include current and former local judges Barbara Lenk and Mark Green, lawyer Greg Peterson, and political commentary from James Bohn and Susan Stamps. Click here to read more about this program.
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 The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine, wrote to the Cover to Cover committee to express his support of our read. Here's what he had to say:
I am pleased to learn that The Nine has been selected for the Gleason Public Library's Carlisle Community Read & Cover to Cover events in January and February for 2010. The power to nominate federal judges is one of the great prizes of any Presidency, and Obama assumed office at a propitious moment. In recent years, the introduction of a Supreme Court nominee has become a major political undertaking, providing a revealing glimpse of the environment in Washington. The Court is a product of a democracy and represents, with sometimes chilling precision, the best and worst of the people. I encourage your community to talk with each other about law and politics.
Thanks,
Jeffrey Toobin
In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important - and secret - legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and with a keen sense of the Court's history and the trajectory of its future, Jeffrey Toobin creates in The Nine a riveting story of one of the most important forces in American life today.
National bestseller; named a Best Book of the Year by: The New York Times, Slate, The Economist, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, and Entertainment Weekly
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