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OCTC's Book Group Covering an Array of Classics

by Bernie Hale

Owensboro, KY (08/20/2018) — Owensboro Community & Technical College's book discussion group meets on Tuesday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in the Humanities building in room H-103, on the main campus at 4800 New Hartford Road, Owensboro.

Featured this semester are Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, E. M. Forster's A Room with a View, Fiona Mountain's The Lady of Butterflies, Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy, Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow, and Mary Webb's Precious Bane.

The novels will be covered in order and Warren's All the King's Men is the Kentucky Humanities Council's "Kentucky Reads" selection for 2018-19. Warren earned a Pulitzer Prize for the political novel and it is highly regarded as one of the best novels of the 20th century.

"The rest of the works were chosen by group members and we selected the ones that got the most votes. It should be an interesting semester" added Carl Runyon, OCTC English faculty and coordinator of the group.

The group is open to any interested community members; there is no fee for participants. For a semester outline or more information please contact carl.runyon@kctcs.edu.

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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.

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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.

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