An Ontario community reading campaign has gone with a non-fiction title for the first time in its history. The “One Book, One Community” program, based in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, has gone with Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon’s The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating, first published last year by Random House Canada. The campaign will last throughout the summer, concluding with author appearances and other events in September.
This is the seventh year for “One Book, One Community”: previous choices have been mostly CanLit fiction, with a venture into science fiction (Robert J. Sawyer’s Hominids) in 2005.
