Friday Favorites: November 30
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Often the best book recommendations come from people who are reading a book that they can’t help but gush about They want to tell others how interesting, moving or just plan fun it is to read. Well, I for one am listening — and sharing with you.
So each Friday, I will try pass along a good book tip —just in time for the weekend. Get ready to settle in and make sure that reading light is full charged.
As a reporter I speak to lots of people during the week. I will pick out someone very fascinating and find out what he or she is reading and get a recommendation. Your job is to comment if you know the book or have read it. Also, feel free to share a related title of your own — with some pithy description, please.
Last week, I interviewed Gary Knell, president and chief executive officer of Sesame Street Workshop. He is a big fan of libraries saying he grew up using ones in California and now that he lives in Westchester really likes the Mt. Kisco and Katonah libraries. Scroll down and find an interview with him about how the children’s television programming can work with libraries to encourage learning and reading.
When we talked, Knell said he was currently reading the new David Halberstam book about the Korean conflict, “The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War.�
“I am finding it absolutely fascinating. It tells a history we did — or a least I did not —learn in school. I was born too late and am catching up now. It is a terrific book with detail and insights,� he said of the more than 700 page tome, by the Pulitizer Prize winning author.
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on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 6:05 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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A municipal reporter for The Journal News since 1997, 
