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you one of the reasons that we liked the whole idea of read for the cure was that not everybody can climb the CN Tower or run a 10k race and readers would like to be involved in the fight against cancer just as much as runners and you know super athletes so that was one of our thoughts was let’s create an event where people who love to read can get together and do something to raise funds for cancer research this evening on your mistress of ceremonies for this extraordinary event I have to say this is a is this a big improvement over run for the cure I do a lot of charity work can go to a lot of events were and i find that something that like this event is people have a passionate connection to it because all the people involved have had this horrible disease touch them take people away the beauty of this evening as you see they call all these people together to say we’re going to beat this and then you come together to say we we’re going to redo our way through this read for the Cure started in song in 2006 when a couple members of my book club which is called west side stories we’re inspired to combine the love of reading with cancer fundraising I’m 2005 several of us were struggling with cancer either with our own diagnosis or with the family members diagnosis and our book club became a constant source of support for all of us that year so this is the fourth series of events and every year we’ve doubled pretty much year-over-year in terms of attendance and funds raised for cancer research society read for the cures run entirely by volunteers including the hardware food committee who planned tonight we don’t have any administrative overheads we don’t have it a head office we don’t have company cars we don’t have expense accounts and that allows us to contribute a hundred percent of the ticket proceeds to our charity the cancer research side I did for work at a bank as a psychologist in the bed Preston called me up and he said this is about a month ago he said I want you to come in and talk to 400 employees about your book and I thought that’s odd so I’m going to fly them in all the VP’s from all across Canada and I’m and you know we’re going to buy four hundred of your book I thought perfect right but then I realized there’s a book called after the fall it’s about it’s about finances and in the depression in the money so I bought 412 these guys are gonna have to listen to me from all over you know so they just very shocked when i was talking to them about what it was to be a teenage girl right to hear from the authors and to get a different twist and a different understanding of the book itself what fascinated me tonight was we had three very good authors all brought something very different different styles they they each talked about very different aspects of their book and each of them gave you a real insight into what was behind the reason for the writing the book and then you’ve got the seven-year period in the middle where he’s traveling around and was getting married and he’s you know doesn’t know what his own future is going to be any wasmuth ought to be proud of me but they won’t have him and there’s this great battle and politically and internally everything’s up in the air and he’s got a tutor this kid that he doesn’t want to get stuck with and then you got the last 12 years or so of his life where X is again head of a school in a room reading great books in thank you so as a fiction writer you look at those three periods and it’s kind of a no-brainer you take the middle one because that’s where all the fun is that’s where the violence is and that’s where the sexes and that’s where all the activity is and that’s wrong exam to degrade is releasing each time we come we get a different experience maybe than what we are expecting to hear they don’t particularly talk about their books but they talk about the writing process and that’s always interesting to hear about and I think the author of the bishops man was probably the one I enjoyed the most tonight it’s the most controversial book and it was probably the most interesting to hear about the process of creating so I considered fiction as an appropriate vehicle for a story about sexual abuse and suicide taking account of the fact that the very best of fiction but the very best of journalism explores real people and events for meaning and truth at a younger age I read a lot of Dickens Victor Hugo Upton Sinclair John Steinbeck and I remember real recognizing that the very best of fiction writers don’t make much pub they just process reality reality I tried to process and the bishops man is simple evasion and concealment make bad things worse simply by loving books you can become part of something that can say we are collectively going to get rid of this scourge that’s taken away so many of the people we love …