Big Library Read
NEXT BIG LIBRARY READ WILL BE IN MAY 2025
Join the Discussion May 15 - May 29, 2025
Did you know, the Big Library Read is the first global eBook club?
Big Library Read (BLR), facilitated by OverDrive, is a reading program through your library that connects millions of readers around the world with the same eBook at the same time without any wait lists or holds.
It’s a worldwide digital version of a local book club. The program is free through your local library or school library. This means as UR students, staff, and faculty all you need is your Net ID to get started.
Uncommon Measure
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time?
Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance anxiety forced her to give up the dream of becoming a concert solo violinist. Anchoring her story in illuminating research in neuroscience and quantum physics, Hodges traces her own passage through difficult family dynamics, prejudice, and enormous personal expectations to come to terms with the meaning of a life reimagined—one still shaped by classical music but moving toward the freedom of improvisation.
Natalie Hodges has performed as a classical violinist throughout Colorado and in New York, Boston, Paris, and the Italian Piedmont, as well as at the Aspen Music Festival and the Stowe Tango Music Festival. She is a graduate of Harvard University, where she studied English and music, and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado. Her first book, Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time, was longlisted for the National Book Award, shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize, and named a New York Times “Editors’ Choice.”