One Book One Community 2018

Congratulations to One Book One Community!

This is the 17th year of operation.

 It is the longest running community reading program in Canada! 

 Isn't that wonderful?

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One Book One Community has announced its book choice for 2018. 

I t  i s  a  t h r i l l e r !

  Linwood Barclay has written 17 adult novels that are very popular around the world.  One novel is being made into a television series in France.  Other books have been adapted for T.V. or film.

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I loved One Book One Community from the start!  I have read every book choice over the years and promoted the book on every occasion.  One year, I read the whole book aloud at a nursing home.  I always look forward to the author event in September.

I have loved some choices and disliked others.  That is to be expected.  So I read this book immediately when it was announced.  I am not familiar with 'thrillers' and so I read information about mystery novels, crime novels and thrillers, trying to understand this genre. I came to the conclusion that I am unable to appreciate any of these books.  They reflect too much of the horrors of the world and I find them neither interesting nor informative- certainly not thrilling.

The original mandate of the One Book One Community committee was to choose a book that would be relatively inoffensive to our rather conservative population in this area.  Well, I realized that I must be the most conservative reader since I am disappointed in the language and characters.  I guess both should be expected in a thriller.