One Book, One Kootenay vote deadline looms
By Contributor
The popular Kootenay-wide book club One Book, One Kootenay has kept regional readers busy trying to decide which of the three shortlisted books should get the nod. Each year, booklovers read, discuss, and vote on the book they think book all Kootenay folk should read. The deadline for voting for the 2013 One Book, One Kootenay selection is August 2nd.
This year’s shortlist is comprised of Never Going Back by Antonia Banyard, Confined Space by Deryn Collier and The Dolphin’s Tooth: a Decade in Search of Adventure by Bruce Kirkby. Since May, these Kootenay authors have been reading in libraries across the region, either in person or virtually through film. With several days left to read and vote, the Kootenay Library Federation that hosts OBOK is urging people to pick up copies of the books at their local libraries, and vote.
They are all good reads: Collier’s mystery Confined Space (Simon & Schuster) introduces small-town coroner Bern Fortin as he investigates a murder in a brewery; The Dolphin’s Tooth: a Decade in Search of Adventure (McClelland & Stewart) follows Kirkby through 15 years of high adventure in some of the world’s edgier places; Banyard’s novel Never Going Back (Thistledown Press) brings together a group of high school friends after 10 years of separation as they converge for a friend’s memorial.
The2013 selected OBOK author is celebrated in a tour of select Kootenay Libraries in the fall.
“It’s great to be able to celebrate the talented writers of the Kootenay in this way,” says Kootenay Library Federation director Joanne Richards. “With One Book, One Kootenay, everybody wins.”
This is the fifth anniversary of OBOK, a region-wide book club supported by public libraries in the East and West Kootenay, and the Columbia Basin Trust. www.obok.ca is the place to find information about the books and interviews with the authors, follow the results of the vote, and find out where to catch the selected author reading at a Library near you.
