Don't Just Read . . .
June 8, 2014
Looking for an opportunity to discuss the latest popular books with some of the smartest people around (your friends and North Carolina State University's most engaged scholars)? NCSU Libraries
and Wake County Public Libraries
teamed up to make that easy with READ SMART, a series of informal discussions moderated by members of NC State's faculty. READ SMART is free
and open to the public
and is sponsored by Friends of the Library of North Carolina State University
. All discussions are held at the Cameron Village Regional Library
, 1930 Clark Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27605. For more information, please call 919-513-3481. Read Smart will be taking a summer vacation in June and July but join us in August for our next program. Upcoming programs:
| Thursday, August 21 at 7:00 p.m. Join us for a book discussion of the bestseller Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis. Moderated by Dr. Eileen Taylor, CPA, CFE, associate professor of accounting at NC State. About the book: Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short , Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets. | 
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| Thursday, September 11 at 7:00 p.m. Join us for a book discussion of Cooked , the newest bestseller by Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma . Moderated by Dr. Keith Harris, assistant professor of Food, Bioprocessing & Nutrition Sciences at NC State. About the book: The more we watch food on television, the less food we actually prepare and cook. Michael Pollan's new book is a clarion-call for the virtues and values of proper cooking - an essential, defining human activity which sits at the heart of our cultures, shapes family life and is in itself hugely enjoyable. | 
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| Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m.
Join us for a book discussion of The Maid's Version
, a short novel by Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone.
Moderated by Dr.Marc K. Dudley, associate professor of English at NC State. About the book:
In 1929, an explosion at a dance hall in a Missouri town killed 42 people. Who was to blame? Alma Dunahew, whose scandalous younger sister was among the dead, believes she knows the answer - and that its roots lie in a dangerous love affair. But no one will listen to a woman from the wrong side of the tracks. It is only decades later that her grandson listens to her account and unearths the sorry truth. "Exquisite . . . a pleasure to read." The New York Times
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