ReadAloud invites the community to join us for our winter 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, January 13, 3-4 pm  

Sandra Gurvis, an OSU alum, read from her works that put a contemporary face on the Age of Aquarius: The Pipe Dreamers,   a novel, and Where  Have All the Flower Children Gone?, a nonfiction book offering insights into little-known aspects of the 1960’s.
 

Thursday, January 20, 3-4 pm
Margaret Mills, from the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures,  presented Afghan stories and folk tales.

Thursday, January 27, 3-4 pm

Sharon Davies , OSU’s John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Designated Professor of Law read from her own book entitled, Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race and Religion in America.  Sharon, a specialist in criminal law, will recount one of the most notorious criminal cases of the Jim Crow era.

Thursday, February 3, 3-4 pm

Amy E. Schmidt, a Graduate Program Coordinator in the School  of Environmental and Natural Resources, and Shirlee Ashworth, an Instructor at Pilates Studio of Central Ohio, read Tuvia in the Promised Land, a sequel to Fiddler on the Roof, by Tzvi Fishman, and The Israelis : Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land by Donna Rosenthal.

Thursday, February 10, 3-4 pm 

A Valentine Day’s presentation featuring a variety of Ohioana romance authors reading from their own works.  

Leanna Renee Hieber- Rural Ohio native turned New York actress Leanna Renee Hieber won a pair of Prism Awards for her first novel, a Gothic Victorian paranormal romance titled The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker.  She continues work on a series of Strangely Beautiful novels, and has penned several novellas and one-act plays.

Susan Gee Heino – Historical romance novels are the forte of rural Ohio preacher’s wife and mom Susan Gee Heino.  She received the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award in the Regency Historical category for Mistress By Mistake.  Her latest book,  Temptress in Training, is due out in July.

Elysa Hendricks – Central Ohio author Elysa Hendricks specializes in romance novels with a paranormal bent. Recent titles include Star Raiders, The Sword and the Pen, and Star Crash. Hendricks is one of the founders of the Futuristic, Fantasy & Paranormal Chapter of Romance Writers of America.

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Thursday, February 17, 3-4 pm 

Erin Reilly-Sanders, a PhD graduate assistant teaching Children’s Literature in the School of Teaching & Learning, read from The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe, a crazy Monty Python-esque romp through the high seas with Charles Darwin and the pirate captain’s ragtag band, and Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson , a juvenile novel that spills the beans on the real roll of librarians, and an interlude of It’s a Book by Lane Smith, a hilarious picture book about technology, books, and a list of interesting characters.

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Thursday, February 24, 3-4 pm 

Karen McCulloch, Program Director, and Nancy Lacher, the Puppetry and Writing Instructor for the Delaware County Cultural Arts Center read from Love That Dog and Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech.

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Thursday, March 3, 3-4 pm 

Jessica Mensah, the Administrative Assistant for the Franklin County Auditor, read from Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans by Rosalyn Story.

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