Category Archives: In the News

May 17, 2012

“The Best Novel About Digital Life Yet,” says Professor

A professor at Oberlin College assigned Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story to her first-year class on new technologies. She’d been teaching the class for over ten years and decided to change things up by assigning Shteyngart’s book to fifteen … Continue reading →

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May 8, 2012

Sacred Heart University Picks The Other Wes Moore for Summer Reading

The incoming freshman class at Sacred Heart University will be reading The Other Wes Moore as their first summer reading assignment. The author, Wes Moore, will also be speaking on campus  to the Sacred Heart freshman class and the entire University … Continue reading →

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April 30, 2012

Concordia College Selects Acts of Faith a Second Time

Concordia College in Moorhead, MN has picked Eboo Patel’s Acts of Faith as a common reading title again for a second year. Whereas the book had been selected as a “summer read” a previous year at Concordia, the college is … Continue reading →

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April 3, 2012

UTC Unviels Outcasts United as FYE 2012 Selection!

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has officially announced Outcasts United by Warren St. John as their title selection for the university’s 2012 Freshmen Year Reading Experience. After receiving more than 50 entries in favor of choosing Outcasts United, this … Continue reading →

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March 5, 2012

Baker University Unveils Outcasts United as Common Reading Selection

The search for Baker University’s common book has ended! Last Thursday the university announced that  Warren St. John’s Outcasts United was selected as Baker’s common book. The Baker Orange editorial board writes in their recent announcement that the search for … Continue reading →

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November 29, 2011

How Rebecca Skloot Built The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has been interviewed a multitude of times on the story behind the book, but The OPEN Notebook chose instead to focus on these two interesting topics: the structure of the … Continue reading →

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September 9, 2011

Reluctant Reviewer Won Over by Blake Mycoskie

Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie, author and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes, was recently featured in The Wall Street Journal review, “Doing Good by Shoeing Well.” The article highlights how Mycoskie cobbled together a for-profit enterprise that … Continue reading →

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August 23, 2011

Author Wes Moore Featured in TIME Magazine

We’re very excited and proud to share this week’s cover of TIME Magazine featuring Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore. Wes is featured as one of the five heroic veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who … Continue reading →

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June 29, 2011

Free Advanced Reader’s Copy of Susan Cain’s Quiet

Common Reads is feeling very generous these days, and luckily you all are the ones who benefits! We’re very excited about author Susan Cain’s upcoming book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking and we’re … Continue reading →

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March 25, 2011

Louise Steinman’s Thoughts and Connection to Japan

Sixteen years ago, a series of events and discoveries relating to her father’s past led Louise Steinman, author of The Souvenier: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War, to the doorsteps of Suibara, Japan. Steinman traveled to Suibara in 1995 to … Continue reading →

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