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1 month ago | 
eriereader.com | Erin Phillips
What makes a local business worth supporting? Is it the quality of the products? Is it the character of the business owner? Is it the convenience or significance of their location? In the case of Herb and Honey Bakery and owner Jessica Schultz (40 Under 40 Class of 2023), all three get a resounding YES.
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1 month ago | 
eriereader.com | Erin Phillips
SUNDAY, MAR. 30
This month, the Erie Reader Book Club has selected Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain to discuss at their March meeting which corresponds with our Food issue.
Many of you may know, love, and miss Bourdain from his incredible travel show, No Reservations.
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2 months ago | 
eriereader.com | Erin Phillips
BEGINNING THURSDAY, FEB. 20
For many, the winter months can seem to drag on — less sunlight and colder temps combined with the snow can often mean fewer events and activities. But the Erie Downtown Partnership's Winter Carnival is back for 2025 and offers a fun-filled weekend that's sure to banish those winter woes.
Taking place Feb.
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2 months ago | 
eriereader.com | Yaa Gyasi |Erin Phillips
SUNDAY, FEB. 23
The Erie Reader Book Club will meet the last Sunday in February at 1 p.m. at Werner Books and Coffee to discuss the novel Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi to correspond with the Reader's Black History Month issue.
Homegoing tells the story of one family, from their origins in eighteenth century Ghana. Two half sisters are born into different villages - and their fates couldn't be more different.
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2 months ago | 
staging.backpacker.com | Erin Phillips
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. On an early summer day in 2023, Justine Murray and Matt Connery sat across from each other at a wooden table in the tiny diner at the Bonaparte Lake Resort, nestled off Highway 20 in Washington's forested Okanogan County.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
eriereader.com | Jesmyn Ward |Erin Phillips
SUNDAY, JAN. 26
For the month of January, the Erie Reader Book Club has chosen to read Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward. Because it is the Reader's Best of Erie issue, the group decided to choose a book has received the National Book Award. Jesmyn Ward has actually won two National Book Awards: Salvage the Bones was first – awarded in 2011 followed by Sing, Unburied, Sing in 2017.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
eriereader.com | Erin Phillips
Wait. Did all of 2024 just happen within the last month?
As I sit down to write this year's Year in Review, I find it difficult to reflect on more than the last quarter of the year, as it is obviously so consequential to our collective well-being.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
eriereader.com | Erin Phillips
SUNDAY, DEC. 29
"Life changes fast.
Life changes in an instant."
Join the Erie Reader Book Club in December as we read Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking to correspond with our upcoming December issue, The Year in Review.
The autobiographical retelling of a year in the life of Joan Didion (published exactly one year and a day after her husband's sudden death) – a year of consequence, a year of unthinkable loss, giving distinct imagery to the mental toll of grief.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
eriereader.com | Abby Walter |Eugene Cross |Erin Phillips
SUNDAY, NOV. 24
For the November meeting of the Erie Reader Book Club, we'll be reading Miss Me Forever by Eugene Cross – to celebrate our Shop Local issue, we've chosen a book set in Erie written by an Erie native.
The book follows the story of Tulsi Gurung, a refugee from a Bhutanese camp who is resettled in Erie with his grandfather, as he anxiously awaits word from his beloved sister who still resides at Camp Goldhap.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
backpacker.com | Erin Phillips
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. On an early summer day in 2023, Justine Murray and Matt Connery sat across from each other at a wooden table in the tiny diner at the Bonaparte Lake Resort, nestled off Highway 20 in Washington's forested Okanogan County.
