Tag: Reading in Common
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Gustavus Announces 2016-2017 Reading in Common Book Selection
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Gustavus has selected Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates as the 2016-2017 Reading in Common book. Now in its 17th year, the Reading in Common program seeks to ignite conversation around relevant topics and provide a shared experience for the incoming first-year class.
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Gustavus Chooses Reading in Common Book
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Gustavus Adolphus College has selected Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario as its Reading in Common book for the 2009-10 academic year. The book recounts the odyssey of a Honduran boy who endures hardship and peril to find his mother in the United States.
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Reading in Common Author John Pomfret Will Visit Campus
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Gustavus Adolphus College will welcome author John Pomfret to campus Monday, Sept. 15. Pomfret, the author of this year’s Reading in Common book, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, will speak at 7 p.m. in Christ Chapel.
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Gustavus Chooses Reading in Common Book
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Gustavus Adolphus College has selected Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret as its Reading in Common book for the 2008-09 academic year. The book recounts the lives of several of Pomfret’s former classmates at Nanjing University in order to examine China’s tumultuous history and promising future.