The Haywood County Friends of the Library is planning an exciting event series for the
Together We Read book of 2009
What if all of Western North Carolina was reading the same book? Together We Read is a regional cooperative community reading and discussion program that answers that question. The primary purpose of Together We Read is to foster a sense of community in WNC through reading and discussions of our best regional writers.
The Friends of the Haywood County Library is participating in this program and has made 20 copies of the 2009 selection, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Harper, 2007) available to the public at the front desk of the Waynesville branch. The book is described by Harper as follows: “Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life – vowing that, for one year, they’d buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it.” Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is part memoir and part journalistic investigation. This entertaining narrative will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. The book has been described as charming, zestful, funny and poetic.
The Friends of the Library has planned two events to allow you to share your insights and learn more about this vital topic: Both will be held at the Waynesville Library Auditorium on the lower level. Refreshments will be served at both. The book discussion is planned for Thursday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. and a “producer/gardener/consumer” gathering will be held Thursday, November 12, at 7:00 p.m. ***NOTE: As of Novemebr 3, 2009, the November 12 event has been cancelled due to scheduling difficulties. Sorry for the inconvenience.