The Book Bower, 386 Main St., Middletown, will host a book reading on Friday, Sept. 9, at 5 p.m. with Elizabeth MacKiernan Miel.

Miel will read from "Toward the End of Ordinary Time," a book documenting one person's spiritual journey in the days immediately after Sept. 11, touching on issues that are just as relevant today.

Miel, a writer, scholar, translator and volunteer hospital and hospice chaplain, lives in Middletown. She works part time at Wesleyan University.

In her book, she honestly examines the impact of 9/11 on her own faith not only in God, but in tolerance and pacifism.