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Story Starters Now Available!

One Book - One LincolnthirteenthtaleIn an effort to give visitors to the One Book — One Lincoln web site more interactive opportunities, the 2008 OBOL site has launched a Story Starters page. [not currently available]

Visiting the One Book site, and click on the Story Starters link — you’ll be taken to a page with a variety of black and white photos that are evocative of the mood, themes and settings of the book. You’ll also find a selection of lines from The Thirteenth Tale, which will hopefully spark your creative impulses.

The Story Starters page has a form at the bottom, where you may select any of the offered photos or lines from the book…and use them as a jumping off point for creating your own short story or autobiographical musing. We encourage you to share your creativity and inspiration with other readers — as we receive story submissions, they will be posted on the One Book web site. If we get enough, as this Fall’s One Book events progress, we may even let readers help pick their favorites from all the submissions.

So…stop by the One Book site, take a look at the photos and “lines” and see if they inspire you to create your own Thirteenth Tale!

And the title for 2008 is…

One Book - One Lincolnthirteenthtale…Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale. This novel, a debut work from author Setterfield, is a tribute to the tradition of gothic novels from years gone by. A shy, introverted woman finds herself inexplicably caught up in a mystery that goes back many years, complete with hauntings, mysterious twins, an unexplained fire, a reclusive author and more twists and turns than a hedge maze in a classic English garden!

Join us as we all read The Thirteenth Tale, then come to one of the many book discussion opportunities or special events and programs. We also encourage you to explore the nooks and crannies of this year’s official One Book — One Lincoln web site, which provides background about the book, the author, and the many themes touched on throughout the novel.

Thanks for reading with us…we look forward to hearing what you think about The Thirteenth Tale.

One or more?

One Book - One LincolnAs we count down to the September 8th announcement of the official 2008 OBOL title, we’re curious — do you (as a reader) tend to read more than one of our annual finalists, or do you prefer to wait for the one selected title to be announced?

Do you prefer Fiction titles as a city-wide reading selection, or Non-Fiction?

Did you attend a preview discussion?

One Book - One LincolnSo…were you one of the interested readers who attended one of the five Preview Discussions in the past 10 days? If so, we’d love to hear from you — what did you think? Did you learn anything new about the One Book process that you weren’t aware of? What interested you the most?

One Book One Lincoln Preview Discussion Podcast

One Book - One LincolnAs part of the countdown to the revelation of this year’s single One Book — One Lincoln title on September 8th, a series of Preview Discussions are being held throughout the community. These meetings, held at bookstores in various parts of Lincoln, feature members of the One Book selection committee, discussing the process of narrowing down the list of suggested titles to the five finalists — the public has been invited to attend and ask questions.

We’ve been recording some of these Preview Discussions for release as Podcasts on the library’s website, and the first of them (a talk at the A Novel Idea used bookstore downtown) is now available:

One Book One Lincoln Preview at A Novel Idea (2008).