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Welp. I’m speechless.
In our final installment of the 8th Annual Century Century Club, we tally up the mind-boggling numbers and final stats.
For anyone just tuning in: We’ve spent the last string of Sundays highlighting SouthCoast readers who took up my Century Club Challenge in 2020.
For eight years now, I’ve challenged SouthCoasters to read 100 books to make my BookLovers Century Club reading 25-49 books qualifies you for the Quarter-Century tier; 50-99, the Half-Century.
We’ve grown each year by leaps and bounds, in both heart and number.
You can catch up on all your literary neighbors and what they’re recommending by checking past columns on my Twitter and Facebook. (Print readers: both links are listed at the end of this column.)
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Films don’t necessarily enjoy the dominance they once had. Just as big novels gave way to more specialized literary fiction, titles like Nomadland and Minari are likely to have more limited appeal.
Could movies be losing their cultural cachet? The latest evidence: The Golden Globe Awards saw ratings plummet 62 percent in total viewers to just 6.91 million. Sure, there were extenuating circumstances: The show lacked a strong lead-in; the virtual ceremony meant the glitz was dialed way down; and because of the pandemic-forced cinema closings, most of the films never had a chance to woo moviegoers in theaters.
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