September's Middletown book discussion title: Station Eleven

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, September 25 to discuss Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven.  We will meet at 12 pm in Room 124 in the Library.   

Careful readers will note that the Hamilton Book Discussion Group is also reading Station Eleven for its October 11 meeting (2:30pm at the Rentschler Library).  This is purely a coincidence.  All right, you got us, it's not a coincidence.  Our Hamilton friends are reading the book in connection with the City of Hamilton's One City, One Book program.  It's a great book!  We don't want Middletown to be left out of the fun, so please read the book and discuss it with us, and then see the attached document for lots of other great events that are being sponsored as part of the program.  Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, I always say.

Here is a brief summary of the title, along with links to request the book from Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries (Just click "Request" and choose "Miami University" from the dropdown list.  Then enter your UniqueID and password, and the library from which you would like to retrieve the item):  

"One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it."

Miami, OhioLINK  and SearchOhio

Read the book (or read something else interesting), then come along to our discussion to share what else you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing, and help us plan our future readings.  

Have an idea for a book to discuss?  Let us know and check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm