April's Middletown Book for Discussion on Zoom: The Sun Also Rises

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, April 27.  Our title is Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of expatriates from "the Lost Generation" and their travels in France and Spain in the 1920s:

"The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman a clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called "Lost" the spirit of its age."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  All of our statewide delivery services are up and running.  We do have our curbside pickup operating as well as in-house pickup.
  
• Amazon has the paperback, Kindle, and audiobook available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  On March 30th, the members of the group had a spirited discussion of The Grapes of Wrath, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
• OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind, Jill Filipovic
• IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives, Chris Stedman
• I Had a Hammer, Hank Aaron
• The Outlander Book Series, Diana Gabaldon
• The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
• When You Read This, Mary Adkins
• Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami

We will meet at 12 pm on the 27th in Zoom at 

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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

"Dueño y señor de Pamplona" by Chema Concellón is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0