{"id":681,"date":"2019-03-21T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=681"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:18:45","slug":"bowdoin-reads-tenth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/bowdoin-reads-tenth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowdoin Reads|Watches|Listens Tenth Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-683 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/br-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bowdoin Reads 10th anniversary cake\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>On Friday, February 8<sup>th<\/sup>, the Library celebrated ten years of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/\">Bowdoin Reads<\/a> project, the feature on the Library homepage showcasing what the Bowdoin community is reading.\u00a0 Begun a little over ten years ago (officially August, 2008), the site has featured over two hundred readers since its inception, rotating faculty, staff, and student readers monthly.\u00a0 In 2017, we expanded Bowdoin Reads to include watching and listening.<\/p>\n<p>To help us celebrate, we invited some recent past participants to talk about and read from a chosen book. Eduardo Pazos Palma, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life read from <a href=\"https:\/\/cbbcat.net\/record=b4472116~S19\">Flourishing : Why we need religion in a globalized world<\/a>, by Miroslav Volf; Michael Friedland, \u201921 read from <a href=\"https:\/\/cbbcat.net\/record=b2483178~S19\">Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?<\/a> by Lorrie Moore; and Osterweis Associate Professor of German, Jill Smith, read from <a href=\"https:\/\/cbbcat.net\/record=b1352460~S19\">What I Saw<\/a> by Joseph Roth.\u00a0 We all enjoyed a fabulous book-shaped cake from the Union Street Bakery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-685 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/bowdoinreads-18-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Reader\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>What has Bowdoin been reading all these years?\u00a0 We\u2019ve provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/list-of-bowdoin-reads.shtml\">list of books<\/a> (and a few audio\/video titles) which you can also find on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/92798489-bowdoin?shelf=bowdoin-reads\">Bowdoin Reads Goodreads<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/about-the-library\/staff.shtml#joan\">Joan Campbell<\/a> if you, too, would like to participate in Bowdoin Reads|Watches|Listens.<\/p>\n<p>See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/the-library-throws-a-party-for-books-and-readers.html\">story about the celebration<\/a> written by Assistant Director of Communications for News Content, Rebecca Goldfine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, February 8th, the Library celebrated ten years of the Bowdoin Reads project, the feature on the Library homepage showcasing what the Bowdoin community is reading.\u00a0 Begun a little over ten years ago (officially August, 2008), the site has featured over two hundred readers since its inception, rotating faculty, staff, and student readers monthly.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}