The More We Read, the Stronger We Are

Peterborough is a Community of Book Lovers, and It Shows
Rosemary Ganley
The Peterborough Examiner
November 13, 2019

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Peterborough is a community of book lovers and avid readers. HANNAH YOON/TORSTAR

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Canadians read. They read, buy, borrow and talk books. Maybe on Kindle or Kobo, but just as likely in hardcover.

Every person not strap-hanging on the TTC is reading. In Peterborough, Knotanew and Mark Jokinen's, Hunter Street Books and that funky "By the Books" on Water, which specializes in used social-justice works, plus Happenstance and Lakefield Station Bookshop, all make us a bookish region. That's not even including Chapters or online shopping.

Although I miss the card catalogues at Trent's Bata Library, all that opened space serves more readers. At Peterborough Public Library, the one with the fine new art installation outside depicting a book cover blowing in the wind, I had an hour's free tutorial with a librarian, Laura, striving to make me more computer literate (starting with the deletion of multiple Facebook accounts).

As a nation, we avidly follow five new titles on radio every March, on "Canada Reads." Then we read all five to make up our own minds.
Continue Reading >HERE<

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You can purchase Positive Community directly from Rosemary Ganley at  rganley209@gmail.com
or from >Amazon.com< 

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