NYTimes August 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/education/08books.html?_r=1&_r1&oref=logiin&pagewant&oref=slogin
“Summer reading programs straddle the book-club phenomenon, in which people enjoy talking about books, not critically, and academic reading, which students approach very differently,” said Barbara Fister, a librarian at Gustavus Adolphus. “I think summer books used to be more for self-understanding and individual growth, and lately they’ve shifted more into global understanding.”
The Kite Runner is one of three mentioned as popular choices (The Things They Carried, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) along with...
This year’s hands-down winner seems to be Tracy Kidder’s “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World,” an account of a single-minded doctor’s fight against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia.
Duke's process, 2007
http://library.duke.edu/magazine/2007/04/duke-summer-reading-mission-impossible/
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