February's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Midnight Library

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, February 22.  Our title is Matt Haig's The Midnight Library.  Here is a brief summary of this search for fulfillment among infinite realities:

"Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, 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 January 18th the members of the group discussed The Kitchen Front, and also shared a few titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
  
• Corretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy, Coretta Scott King
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020, Diana Gabaldon, ed.
• The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, V. E. Schwab
• Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey Toward Equity, Claudia Goldin
• Places and Names: On War, Resolution, and Returning, Elliot Ackerman
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
• Kudos, Rachel Cusk

We will meet at 12 pm on the 22nd both in Room 123 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

"library" by chanzi is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0