"Tell the Truth: The Glass Castle, the Media, and You"
Third in series

The third in a series of Carroll County on the Same Page programs planned around "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls will be Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Flora Public Library.

The theme for the evening will be "Tell the Truth: The Glass Castle, the Media and You."

The county-wide book discussion will be led by Jack Spencer,Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University.

A fan of the book, Spencer will explore what has made "The Glass Castle" so popular. It has been widely read in Carroll County, thanks in part to word-of-mouth promotion. It has been a book club selection all over the nation, the subject of blogs, Internet interviews, and numerous articles and reviews. The author has appeared on the Colbert Report and Oprah.

Spencer studies media images of social problems and how these images may shape our ideas about these issues. He will engage the group in a discussion of the conventional wisdom regarding some of the book's themes (homelessness, child neglect, poverty, etc.), how these issues are portrayed in the book about the Walls family, and, finally, how the media tends to portray these kinds of issues.

Spencer

Carroll County on the Same Page is a project of the Camden, Delphi, and Flora libraries with the purpose of building a better community through reading, and the sharing and discussion of ideas. Copies of "The Glass Castle" are available at each of the three public libraries and may be borrowed by anyone in the county.