Sentence examples for big read from inspiring English sources

More than two hundred communities across the nation are participating in the National Endowment for the Arts' third annual Big Read program, in which towns choose a book to read together.

This week the Moby-Dick Big Read, which I have co-curated with the artist Angela Cockayne, reached Chapter 30, "The Pipe" – read by David Cameron.

Several of the Big Read programs will recognize veterans.

A work by Mr. Kish (inset) will accompany Chapter 76 in the Big Read.

Chosen for the BBCs "Big Read" in 2003, its status as a contemporary classic seems assured.

Some Big Read communities find activities are the key to luring readers.

Our Worst Read may well end up looking remarkably similar to the official Big Read.

Designed to address a decline in literary reading, the Big Read invites communities to read and partake in activities surrounding a selected book.

More than 200 communities participate in the Big Read or similar programs, modeled after "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," a project launched in Washington in 1998.

Kipen, programme director of American community reading scheme The Big Read, has vowed to eat a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird if any one of the 128 residents of Kelleys Island in Ohio fails to read the book.

These and other events are subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts, which created the Big Read in response to research it conducted in 2004 that found a national decline in reading for pleasure.