ReadAloud invites the community to join us for our fall program in the Thompson Library (room 202, 2nd floor NE corner).  Please stop by and enjoy faculty, staff, students and community members reading from their favorite works.

Thursday, September 30, 3-4 pm  Thompson Library (Rm 202)

Two Ohioana authors kicked-off the 2010-11 Read Aloud Program:  Lisa Klein read from Two Girls of Gettysburg and Robert Olmstead from Coal Black Horse . Both books deal with the effect of the Civil War on young people and both are 2011 Choose to Read Ohio titles. This event was supported by our partner organizations Ohioana, the State Library of Ohio, the Ohio Historical Society and Ohio Civil War  150

Thursday, October 7, 3-4 pm  Thompson Library (11th Flr.)

Dr. Chan E. Park, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature shared a few moments of p’ansori, Korean storysinging tradition. The presentation was conducted bilingually: singing in Korean, and speaking in English.

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Thursday, October 14, 3-4 pm  Thompson Library (Rm 202)

Celeste Friedman, author of Single 101: 101 Reasons to Celebrate Being Single, opened a Pandora’s box of what lives in our hearts including funny truths, common principles and basic needs.  She revealed how our inner cravings for independence is woven with the reminder that life is too short to refuse ourselves new and better opportunities. Celeste is a composer, singer-songwriter, Grammy nominee and self-published author. She has also been in broadcasting and has scored for television, film and animation and has won the 2005 Ohioana Library Association Citation Award in Music and Education.  It was wonderful to hear a real professional read from her own book and about some of her own experiences of flying solo.

Thursday, October 21, 3-4 pm  Thompson Library (Rm 202)  
Jasmine Anderson, an accountant from the Office of Financial Services, transformed herself into a pirate and took us back in time to swashbuckling high sea adventures. She read from Blackbeard: America’s Most Notorious Pirate by Angus Konstam and On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, on which the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie is to be based.  Blackbeard will be the main antagonist in this movie.

Jasmine performs as  a pirate in many of the Renaissance Festivals in the central Ohio area.  She dressed in her professional costume and read in character!

Thursday, October 28, 3-4 pm,  Thompson Library (Rm 202)

Mark Boarman and Wes Boomgaarden, both from University Libraries, presented Halloween theme readings.  Mark read Franz Schubert’s Erlkönig.  The Erlkönig, besides being a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is depicted in German poems and ballads as a malevolent creature that haunts forests and carries off travelers to their deaths.

Wes’ presentation featured the overly complex and overwrought prose of Edward Bulwer Lytton – the originator of the opening line “It was a dark and stormy night…”  This Victorian man of letters was once nearly as popular as Dickens, but now is widely parodied by many, and especially by the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest http://www.bulwer-lytton.com.  Readings from Contest entries -”Where ‘WWW’ means ‘Wretched Writers Welcome’” – was the main event.

Thursday, November 4, 3-4 pm,  Thompson Library (Rm 202) 

Candi Krisch, Intercultural Specialist and Liaison to American Indian/Indigenous students in the Multicultural Center, read Growing-Up Native American Edited by Patricia Riley and Killing the White Man’s Indian by Fergus M. Bordewich.

Thursday, November 18, 3-4 pm, Thompson Library (Rm 202)

 Kathy Fagan and Michelle Herman, both from the Department of English, read from their own works. Dr. Fagan read  poetry from:

Lip (2009) and The Charm (2002). Dr. Hermann read from her new novel Delirious. Both readers are the recipients of numerous grants, awards and

fellolwships and both are editors for the literary magazine The Journal.

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