Kathryn Hohlwein will host an all-night, community-participation reading of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” beginning at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 22, and concluding at 7 a.m., Saturday, June 23. The reading, the first in Sacramento in more than 10 years, will take place on the Mother Goose stage at Fairytale Town. About the event, Hohlwein said, “I did the first one at Gibson Ranch in 1998, the second in 1999. Then I moved to New York City, and we did several there. Since then, it has been more abroad than in the States.” Hohlwein cited readings in Alexandria, Egypt; on the Greek Islands of Chios and Kos; on a cruise entitled “The Journey of Odysseus;” in Montevideo, Uruguay; at the 92nd Street Y i

Does an all-nighter eating lamb, reading Homer and dancing to Greek music sound like your idea of fun? East Sacramento resident Kathryn Hohlwein thinks it does. That's why she formed The Readers of Homer in 1998: to stage all-night readings of Homer's epics "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." For someone with such a deep devotion to reading and appreciating Homer, it's a bit surprising that Hohlwein (pronounced "whole vine") didn't read the epics growing up. Though she's a master of Homer now at nearly 80, Hohlwein hadn't even read much Homer until she was a teacher at California State University, Sacramento, about 40 years ago. After teaching it for years, she retired, and fans of her class