Chaplin comedies, Ruth Ozeki readings, brighten the season
Whatcom Reads!, the community program that encourages residents to read and discuss the same book, hosts B.C. author Ruth Ozeki March 3-5, highlighting her award-winning book 鈥淎 Tale for the Time Being.鈥
Her 2013 novel is the story of a Nao, 16-year-old girl in Japan, and Ruth, a writer in Canada, who are connected through a diary. Ruth finds Nao鈥檚 diary while walking on a remote island beach in Canada. She thinks it鈥檚 debris from the 2011 tsunami, and sets out to prove her suspicions.