{"id":1049,"date":"2018-11-20T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2018-11-20T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:53:52","slug":"a-spooktacular-time-had-by-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2018\/11\/20\/a-spooktacular-time-had-by-all\/","title":{"rendered":"A spooktacular time had by all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1052 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/20181031_134942-2-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/20181031_134942-2-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/20181031_134942-2-150x144.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/20181031_134942-2-768x739.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/20181031_134942-2-490x472.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/20181031_134942-2-1080x1039.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Thirty-one students, faculty and special guests read from J.K. Rowling\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on Halloween for Cover2Cover in the Reading Commons. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Associate professor in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/language-and-literature.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Language and Literature Department<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Debbie Williams, began the marathon reading at 10 a.m. while adjunct professor for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/college-of-education-and-human-services\/communication-sciences-and-disorders.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communication Sciences and Disorders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Cassandra Knutson, interpreted. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cover2Cover concluded with adjunct Language and Literature professor, Holly Dameron, reading the last chapter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1050 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/todd-womble.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/todd-womble.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/11\/todd-womble-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The most satisfying part of the event was the clear sense of joy from our readers and audience members,\u201d observed Dr. Todd Womble. \u00a0\u201cSo many people came up to me during the event and described how reading the book brought back memories of their first reading as a child, or of reading the book to their young children. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harry Potter<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> still resonates with so many of us on so many levels, and the book is one that will continue to be read into perpetuity. I&#8217;m thrilled that our Cover2Cover event was an avenue through which so many people on campus were able to re-find the special joy that is unique to reading literature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pictured above:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shan (Pamplin \u201986) Martinez, Director of Technical Services \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-one students, faculty and special guests read from J.K. Rowling\u2019s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone on Halloween for Cover2Cover in the Reading Commons. Associate professor in the Language and Literature Department, Debbie Williams, began the marathon reading at 10 a.m. while adjunct professor for Communication Sciences and Disorders, Cassandra Knutson, interpreted. \u00a0 Cover2Cover concluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}