Common Reading Program

EOU’s 2012 Common Reading Selection is The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls.  The Glass Castle will be required reading as part of first-year student’s Humanities 101 course in fall 2012.

 

Jeannette Walls has carved a story with precision and grace out of one of the most chaotic, heartbreaking childhoods ever to be set down on the page. This deeply affecting memoir is a triumph in every possible way, and it does what all good books should: it affirms our faith in the human spirit.

~Dani Shapiro, author of Family History

 

 

Fall Common Reading Event Calendar

• “The Power of Forgiveness” Movie and discussion:  October  5th, 7 p.m. Huber Auditorium, Badgley Hall
•  No Zebras, No Excuses: A Bystander Education Program: October 11th, 7 p.m. Hoke 309
• Food Fight Documentary Film screening: October 23rd, 6 p.m., Huber Auditorium, Badgley Hall
• FOOD DAY.org: October 24th Noon– 1 p.m. Mountie Café
• Alternative Spring Break Student Panel: Last year’s volunteers talk about their experience in a Portland Homeless Shelter; plus info on signing up for this year’s trip!: October 25th, 6 p.m.,  Badgley Hall room 144
• “People Like Us: Social Class in America” Movie and discussion: November 6th, 7 p.m., Huber Auditorium, Badgley Hall
• Hunger Banquet, sponsored by Housing & Residence Life: November 7th, 7 p.m.,  Hoke 309
• “The Pursuit of Happyness” Movie, sponsored by ESE: November 9th, 7 p.m. Huber Auditorium, Badgley Hall
• Building Relationships with Children using Love and Limits: Panel Discussion with panelists from the EOU Counseling Center and other local agencies: November 12th , noon– 1 p.m.  Hoke 301

In addition, we will be hosting book discussion groups for faculty and staff (and students if they want to attend!) on the following dates in the lounge area on the third floor of Pierce Library:

5-6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 9

5-6 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 6

5-6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeannette Walls’ newest book is Half Broke Horses:

 

 

Jeannette Walls is the third generation of a line of indomitable women whose paths she has inscribed on the permanent record, enriching the common legend of our American past. ~ Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review (cover review)

Common Reading Selections from previous years:

2011:  Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers