Comments on: The “Big Read” begins! http://cvillewords.com/2007/04/01/the-big-read-begins/ Reading and writing in the heart of Virginia Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Great Gatsby - Chapter I « Charlottesville Words http://cvillewords.com/2007/04/01/the-big-read-begins/#comment-832 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:07:40 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/the-big-read-begins/#comment-832 [...] I’m nothing if not a conformist. I’m just so happy we weren’t asked to read Cannery Row! So if you care to, read along with me: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me [...]

]]> By: Kempis http://cvillewords.com/2007/04/01/the-big-read-begins/#comment-764 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:29:29 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/the-big-read-begins/#comment-764 Why Fitzgerald? and/or “The Great Gatsby”? Why not “John Steinbeck” and Cannery Row”? And why make it such a big event? (not that I have any problems with any of it- I don’t. I’m just curious.)

I don’t get it.

]]> By: » The “Big Read” begins! http://cvillewords.com/2007/04/01/the-big-read-begins/#comment-758 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:54:00 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/the-big-read-begins/#comment-758 [...] Jenny Levine wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGordon Avenue Branch, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library 1500 Gordon Ave Charlottesville, VA 22903. Caroline Preston, author of Gatsby’s Girl, discusses The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby: A Story of Love, … [...]

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