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When the time comes to buy a bookish friend the perfect present for the holiday season, it can be hard to think of something that isn’t already on their bookshelf.
Summer reading program kicks off with a trip back in time –Join the Library Book Group’s Zoom discussion of “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi on Wednesday, June 16, from 7- 8 p.m. and kick off this year’s Summer Reading Program, “Reading Colors Your World.” In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully-brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hope...
The show must go on, even amid a pandemic Student performing arts groups continue to persevere putting together new virtual shows featuring dance, comedy, music, and drama this fall. Penn student performing arts groups found ways to create virtual productions during the pandemic, often editing individual videos to bring them together. The Arts House Dance Company members, including senior and chair Erin Bailey, performed solos outside while wearing masks to create “The Movement Series” three-part video. Penn student perform...
I had another fabulous reading year filled with new authors and old standbys, and I am excited to wrap up 2020 by sharing more of my favorite books published this year. The best sophomore effort I read was âThe Vanishing Halfâ by Brit Bennett, a multigenerational book centered on themes of identity, sisterhood and family. It is the story of twins Stella and Desiree Vignes, who grow up in the 1960s in a Louisiana town in which the residents are black and have very light skin. The sisters run away to New Orleans and then lose touch. Desiree marries, has a daughter who has very dark sk...