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Collective reading is alive and well in the 2000s – thanks to large-scale online book clubs (think "One Book, One Twitter," for example) and also to community “One City, One Book” programs which encourage an entire metropolis to read the same book at the same time. What are cities reading this year? Here are the 2011 picks of five participating cities – all of them apparently drawn to books with strong cultural themes .
2. Boston: “The Whore’s Child,” by Richard Russo
Organizers of the third annual Boston Book Festival are distributing 30,000 copies of their 2011 “One City, One Story” selection, The Whore’s Child by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo. In the short story an elderly nun, the abandoned daughter of a prostitute, writes about her childhood in a convent. A panel of librarians, educators, and writers selected the work for its literary merit and ability to stimulate discussion.
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