What Are You Reading?

What Are You

Reading?

What Are You Reading? A project sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library District to encourage reading and book discussion in our community. Would you like to share your favorite books with other readers? Please send your name, occupation or grade level, book author and title, and a brief statement about the book and why you liked it to Kate Joswick, [email protected].

Reviewer’s Name: Marilyn Pastorelli Reviewer’s Occupation: Retired Book Title: The Old Man and the Sea Book’s Author: Ernest Hemingway The novel tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman and his struggle to catch a giant marlin. He endures days of fishing alone in a small boat to land a marlin, only to have it eaten by a shark on his way home. You feel his determination and courage and defeat. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for this American Classic.