Joy of Shared Reading Event on Amelia Island

If you share a love of reading, or love to read and share, this is your opportunity to explore information received from publishers and meet others who understand your passion for books.

The Friends of the Library, Fernandina Beach and the Amelia Island Book Festival are having a Joy of Shared Reading event at the Residence Inn on Sadler Road. On October 24th, from 9:30 to 11:00 AM, you are invited to come see the new hotel and explore the joy reading brings to our lives. Best of all, this is FREE and open to the public.

This is a resource sharing event for your book club or group to find materials, programs and what book to read next – all from many different sources. Reading a really good book is satisfying, but it can be made better by sharing that book within a reading group.

* Panel discussion with local book group leaders
* Book group resource table – free materials from major publishers!
* Preview of upcoming programs for readers
* Door prizes (new releases & galleys of forthcoming books)
* Refreshments

In a press release dated September, 24, 2009, “The National Reading Group Month Selection Committee chose nine books, eight novels and one memoir, as this year’s Great Group Reads.

The books are:
“Appassionata by Eva Hoffman (Other Press)
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (Other Press)
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James (Avon A)
The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey (Harper Perennial)
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal by Julie Metz (Voice)
While I’m Falling by Laura Moriarty (Hyperion)
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Picador)
Cost by Roxana Robinson (Picador)
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie (Picador)

These titles were selected on the basis of their appeal to reading groups for whom they are bound to open up lively conversations about a host of timely and provocative topics, from the intimate dynamics of family and personal relationships to major cultural and world issues. The Committee also made a conscious decision to focus its attention on under-represented gems from small presses and lesser-known mid-list releases from larger houses. All are books with strong narratives peopled by fully realized characters; books which perhaps have flown under the radar of reviewers and reading groups overwhelmed by the sheer number of new releases each year.”

If you share a love of reading, or love to read and share, this is your opportunity to explore information received from publishers and meet others who understand your passion for books.