Celebrity Reviews

Have you ever wondered what well-known people like to read? Reader's Club wondered too and asked celebrities to tell us whether they have a favorite book, or a book that has affected their lives in some way. Here are the responses we received from celebrities at the local, national and international levels.

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Cooper Lawrence Margot Adler Edward Asner Anndrena Belcher Jack Betts Kate Bosworth Erskine Bowles Kim Brattain Sneaky Pie Brown Dave Brubeck Susan Burgess Ken Burns Robert C. Byrd Paul Cameron Fred Chappell Fred Chappell Dick Clark Bill Clinton Al Conklin Jeffrey J. Crow Hal Crowther Mary C. Curtis Alan M. Dershowitz Bob Dole Michael Easley John Hope Franklin Teri Garr Bob Graham Ed Harris Florence Henderson Homer Hickam Ramona Holloway

Carl Horn III Nanci Kincaid Mary Kratt Mary Kratt Joseph I. Lieberman Jane McAlister Pope Hugh McColl Jr. Pat McCrory Sharyn McCrumb Robert Morgan Beverly Perdue Belva Plain Belva Plain Shannon Ravenel Diane Rehm Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Peter Ridder Doug Robarchek Amy Rogers Ruth Samuelson Tara Servatius Karen Siplin John Snyder Theodore Taylor Ken Thompson Lawrence Toppman Donald J. Trump Anne Underwood Grant Jesse Ventura Bill Walker Barbara Walters Vanessa Williams

Wolf Whistle By Nordan, Lewis Reviewed by Shannon Ravenel, Editor, Algonquin Books This novel, first published a decade ago by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, is a white Southerner's interpretation of one of America's most shameful racial killings - the Emmett Till murder in Mississ... Read complete review

Celebrate Reading

• "Developing an appreciation for literature is essential for people of all ages."
  - Michael F. Easley, Governor of North Carolina
  
  
• "Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true."
  - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice



• My advice about reading is to do a lot of it- those make-believe worlds are the best worlds I know."
  - Stephen King, Author



• Books provide so many avenues to knowledge, to understanding, to fun and to solving problems. They help us cope with triumph and tragedy and failure. Books are the best example of human sharing I know. Read on!"
  - Janet Reno, first female Attorney General.



• Reading is important to me because it offers me nothing less than all the world of human thought. It is one of the great gifts and helps to balance this life."
  - Tyne Daly, Actress



• If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library."
  - Bill Cosby, Comedian



• Reading is important to me because I believe we never stop learning, and the best way to keep learning is to read."
  - Jesse Ventura, Minnesota Governor



• "When I was growing up reading was important. We read for entertainment and knowledge . Information is power. The more you read, the more you know and the more successful you become."
  - Bob Dole, Senator



• "Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit."
  - Phyllis A. Whitney, Author



• Reading keeps me alive. It is like food for my imagination"
  - Anndrena Belcher, Nationally known Storyteller



• "I love so many books it's hard to know where to start! How about authors? Charles Dickens, Tom Robbins, Sabrina Ward Harrison, Douglas Coupland, Brian Patten, etc. Reading changes, enhances and enlightens my life, I wouldn't want to live without words."
  - Evangeline Lilly, Plays Kate on Lost

• "The on-line Reader's Club of the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Public Library is a dynamic extension of library services to the community."
  - Dick Cheney, Vice-President of the United States

• "The Reader's Club is a wonderfully innovative idea (which) promotes the 'joys of reading and lifelong learning!'"
  - Robert Redford, Actor

• "Your web site for book lovers sounds worthy and I'm sure you get lots of people excited about books they might not have thought about before... Your cause is wonderful..."
  - Helen Gurley Brown, Editor-In-Chief Cosmopolitan Magazine