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06.13.2008 4:08 pm

Schools’ summer reading lists

By Jane Henderson
Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Does your school have summer reading suggestions?

A lot of schools offer lists. I recently received a press release from St. Louis University. One of its librarians puts together summer reading suggestions based on faculty recommendations:

 Gail Staines, director of University Libraries at Saint Louis University, says the list includes hot new releases as well as lesser-known good reads.

Library assistant Jodie Williams Borgerding selected “Fearless Fourteen” by Janet Evanovich as this year’s “chick-lit” title.  Mary Stephen, director of the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence, highly recommends Unaccustomed Earth, a series of short stories about daily changes, family relationships and coming of age.
For more, see ttp://libraries.slu.edu/events/summerreads2008/index.html

If you have a summer reading list to share, please send us a link.

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I would highly recommend “Riddley Walker” by Russell Hoban.

— EJ Rotert
9:41 pm July 7th, 2008

I’m curious about something and I guess this is as good a place to ask these questions as anywhere…. Does anyone know what has become of writer Eddy Harris, or if he’s put out any additional books beyond “Mississippi Solo,” “Native Stranger,” “South of Haunted Dreams,” and “Still Life in Harlem?” He always said he wanted to go back to Paris to live there. Last I talked to him was probably 10 or so years ago.

— EJ Rotert
9:54 pm July 7th, 2008

EJ:

Eddy Harris did move to Paris. I interviewed him a few years ago when “Mississippi Solo” was chosen as the Read MOre book for the local one-book reading club.

He came back to St. Louis and was happy to talk to hundreds of folks in several venues about “Mississippi Solo.” He said he really liked Paris, but I think at that time that his father was still living in Kirkwood.

Anyway, I don’t know whether he is still in France, but he was less than five years ago. jh

— Jane Henderson
4:25 pm July 11th, 2008

Thanks, Jane. Just now got back to this blog.

— EJ Rotert
8:47 pm July 20th, 2008

You can contact Eddy Harris through his website at http://www.eddyharris.com
Be sure to use a distinctive subject to distinguish your email from spam. D. Smoot

— D Smoot
11:20 am July 25th, 2008