This winter (and with it currently flurrying outside, it feels like winter!), residents of Rutherford County are encouraged to take part in the One Book Community read program/challenge. The novel selected for Rutherford County is The Great Santini by Pat Conroy. Conroy is a best-selling author who also wrote The Prince of Tides and The Lords of Discipline.
The community effort even has a blog, where you can interact with others and get suggestions of other novels you might be interested in reading if you enjoyed The Great Santini.
So, what's the book about you ask? Well, here's a description of the book from the blog.
"Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine - fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife-beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet stell. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben's got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn't give in-not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy's most explosive character-a man you should hate, but a man you will love."
The book is available at the Smyrna branch of the library and I'm sure you can also pick it up from bookstores in the area (speaking of which, Smyrna needs its own bookstore. If anyone's listening, please consider opening one here!).
So, why not pick up a copy and give it a read?
Maybe reading the book could be something for consideration by the Middle Tennessee bloggers and podcasters groups that meets monthly in Smyrna....
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