Join us Online! August's Middletown Book for Discussion: Will and Testament

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, August 25.  We're moving back to discussing a single book this month (though we always welcome recommendations of other books you're reading, too). Our title is Vigdis Hjorth's Will and Testament.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of Norwegian family dysfunction:

"When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favoritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different - a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured." 

Here is where you can find the book:

• The Gardner-Harvey Library has a copy available, but we won't be back in the library and able to do curbside pickup until August 10.  We will be open to Miami students, faculty, and staff on August 17. Statewide delivery through OhioLINK will start at Miami on August 10.
• If you order the book through a local public library, many of which have either curbside or in-library pickup available, there are several copies available through SearchOhio.  Statewide delivery is already underway for most public libraries.
• It is also available from Amazon as a paperback, a Kindle book, or through Audible as an audiobook.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  On July 28th, the group shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• Conviction, Denise Mina (not recommended)
• The Ghosts of Eden Park: the Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, Karen Abbott
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling
• Dreamland Burning, Jennifer Latham
• The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
• The Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon
• The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat
• Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding (re-read, but not recommended)
• Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Best American Mystery Stories, 2019
• The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer is Wrong, Chris Anderson 
• Boom, Tom Brokaw (not recommended)
• Among the Thugs, Bill Buford
• Three Floors Up, Eshkol Nevo
• Plainsong, Kent Haruf
• Exhalation,Ted Chiang
• In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado 
• Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf
• Slow Horses, first of a series of books by Mick Herron

We will meet at 12 pm on the 25th in Google Meet at https://meet.google.com/qkh-anzd-raz?hs=122

You can also join in by calling   +1 669-238-0098‬ PIN: ‪879 690 274‬#   

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Meet and calling information)

Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm