July's Middletown Book for Discussion: Outline

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, July 27.  Our title is Rachel Cusk's Outline.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of a writer on a short-term trip to Greece:

"Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss."

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• 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 June 29th, the members of the group had a spirited discussion of The Widow's War, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• John Grisham – Sooley
• TaraShea Nesbit – Beheld
• Kristin Hannah – The Four Winds
• Ruth Hogan – The Keeper of Lost things
• Robin Wall Kimmerer  – Braiding Sweetgrass
• Hope Jahren – Lab Girl
• Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca
• R.A. Moss – King Robin
• Camille DeAngelis – Bones and All
• Susan Orlean - The Library Book
• Maggie O’Farrell – I Am, I Am, I Am / Hamnet
• Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
• Patrick Radden Keefe - Say Nothing
• Clare Pooley - The Authenticity Project
• Madhuri Vija - The Far Field
• Kristina McMorris - Sold on a Monday
• Ernest Hemingway – A Movable Feast
• Ayana Mathis - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
• Abbi Waxman - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
• Anne Tyler - Spool of Blue Thread
• Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
  
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 27th both in Room 124 in the Library and 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

John

"Athens" by Chris Ruggles is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0