ReadAloud invites the community to join us for our winter programming in the Thompson Library (room 202, 2nd floor NE corner) beginning January 14, 2010. Stop by and enjoy faculty, staff, students and community members reading from their favorite works.
Thursday, January 14, 3-4 pm 
Linda Fuchs, poet and author presented excerpts from her book 
The Midnight Ramblings of an Insane Woman and More Ramblings, Less Insanity. She graduated magna cum laude from Kent State University with a major in Computers in Business. Her first book The Midnight Ramblings of an Insane Woman was published in 2006 by Publish America. She has also had numerous poems published in various literary journals. Raimund Goerler, University Libraries Assistant Director for Special Collections and Archives, read passages from several speeches important to OSU history.
Thursday, January 21, 3-4 pm
Reading Lyrics: Trifles from Tin Pan Alley. Sean Ferguson read from humorous songs of stage and screen, including lyrics by Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter and others.
Thursday, January 28, 3-4 pm
Michelle Herman, Professor in the Department of English, read from her new collection of personal essays “Dream Life.” Professor Herman is the author of the novels Dog (2005) and Missing (1990), the collection of novellas A New and Glorious Life (1998), and the collection of personal essays The Middle of Everything (2005).
Thursday, February 4, 3-4 pm
Deidra Herring read selections from HERSTORY: Women who Changed the World.
India Brown and Kaila Taylor read selections from Continuing the Journey by Racquael, Life is Fine by Langston Hughes, Living To Be Forgotten By Racquael, Dream Variations by Langston Hughes, The Lesson by Maya Angelou, I’m Not Black Enough by Racquael, and I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
Thursday, February 11, 3-4 pm
The Ohioana Library and the Central Ohio Festival Writers joined together to bring three Central Ohio romance writers to the OSU Libraries ReadAloud. Jules Bennett, Susan Gee Heino, and Karin Shah presented readings in celebration of Valentine’s Day. Jules Bennett first published in 2005 and since has published six novels and will have four more in 2010 from Silhouette Desire in Berkley Publishing. She married her high school sweetheart and is the mother of 2 toddler girls. She also works full-time in a beauty salon and attributes all her success and happiness to God and her husband.
Susan Gee Heino began her writing career as a playwright. After some years in the theatre she turned her efforts to writing regency historical romance, which was always her first love. Her debut novel, Mistress by Mistake, won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award and was released in December, 2009. Her next novel, Damsel in Disguise, will be released by Berkley Sensation in summer 2010.
Karin Shah lives in Westerville and has a degree in English as a Writing Art and a Master’s in Library and Information Science. She read from her debut Sci-Fi romance novel, Starjacked available from Samhain Publishing.
Saundra Akers read various selections including passages from her work in progress. An Ohio native, Saundra has published several novels set in Ohio locales including Peebles, Wavelry, Bainbridge, Greenfield, Sinking Spring, Washington Court House, Circleville, and Ripley.
Thursday, February 25
There was no ReadAloud this week as the room has been scheduled for another event.
Thursday, March 4, 3-4 pm
Noreen Palmer, a Regional Outreach Coordinator for the OSU Medical Center and Guest Lecturer for African and African American Studies, presented selected readings including a selection from her co-authored book, Going Off: A BlackWoman’s Guide for Dealing with Anger and Stress published by McMillan/St. Martin’s.
Also her daughter, Arianna Palmer read her poem, Where I am 
from and other poems. Wanda Jo-Ann Dillard, director of Community Development, OSU Medical Center read Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women written by Maya Angelou.
