Wednesday, December 1, 2010

"Turn some real pages this Reading Week" from North by Northwestern by Dan Camponovo

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann: Remember life before the World Trade Center fell? All those years ago? Yeah, me either, really. I was 11. They say it was nice, and Colum McCann tries to capture that lost feeling in his National Book Award-winning novel. Jumping back and forth between 1974, when Philippe Petit famously tight-rope walked between the Twin Towers, and a present day New York City prostitute’s courtoom trial, Let the Great World Spin stands as a toast to the towers we lost, as they were on September 10, 2001, and as a promise that we, all of us, as New Yorkers and Americans, will rebuild and grow bigger and stronger than we ever were.
There are a few other titles that are definitely worth checking out; read the full list of titles, mentioned in this article, here.

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