May's Middletown Book for Discussion: Hamnet (May 31)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, May 31.  Our title is Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet: a Novel of the Plague.  Here is a brief summary of this imagined backstory of a well known dramatist:

"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  I am happy to note that our statewide delivery service should start accepting requests on May 2.
  
• 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.  In addition to discussing Their Eyes Were Watching God, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their April 26 meeting:

• Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
• Breathe, Joyce Carol Oates
• Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
• Upstart Crow (sitcom about Shakespeare)
• The Dead Fathers Club, Matt Haig
• The Venice Sketchbook, Rhys Bowen
• Where You Once Belonged, Kent Haruf
• Maus, Art Speigelman
• Elm Creek Quilts series, Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Women's March, Jennifer Chiaverini
• Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a  Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best, Neal Bascomb
• Every Fifteen Minutes, Lisa Scottoline
• Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
• Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami

We will meet at 12 pm on the 31st 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

"Shakespeare's birth place. Stratford upon Avon" by elvis_payne is marked with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.