Get Out the Vote: Wake Reads Together 2007

10/12/2006

For the fifth consecutive year, Wake County Public Libraries is sponsoring Wake Reads Together. From now through November 7 (Election Day), readers across Wake County will be voting for the book all of the county will be reading and discussing from January through March.

Librarians from the library system selected 10 titles of note that had broad appeal, were discussable, and would lend themselves to ancillary programs and events. Now the customers of the library system are being asked to "elect" one title from the field of 10.

The 10 titles include:

• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
• Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• 47 by Walter Mosley
• The Namesake by Ihumpa Lahiri
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishguro
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Voters can cast a ballot at any Wake County Public Library or by visiting the Wake Reads Together link in the library portion of www.wakegov.com. More information about each book is available online and in each library.

Wake Reads Together is a countywide reading initiative that attempts to engage the entire community in reading the same book at the same time and then come together in discussion. For more information, contact the committee co-chairs, Kristen O’Daly at West Regional Library (463-8506) or Clare Bass at Cameron Village Regional Library (856-6711).

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