July/August's Middletown Book for Discussion: Homegoing

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, August 2.  Our title is Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing.  Here is a brief summary:

"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial and live in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, and her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation."  

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.  In addition to discussing Hamnet, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their June 28 meeting:

• Midnight's Children and the Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
• A Single Thread, Tracy Chevalier
• Winds of War, Herman Wouk
  
• The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, Isaac Butler
• Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the 20th Century, Dana Stevens
• The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso
• Deacon King Kong, James McBride
• Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi

We will meet at 12 pm on the 2nd 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

"Fishermen by Cape Coast Castle" by Erik Cleves Kristensen is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

New books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in May!

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out. Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in May! We added 206 books, e-books, DVDs, and other items during that time, thanks to your selections and suggestions. The list can be sorted by call number, area of our collection, or by title. There is definitely something here for everyone!

Here are ten titles from the list, to give you an idea of what we've been buying: 

• The garden of broken things / Francesca Momplaisir
• The case of the married woman : Caroline Norton and her fight for women's justice / Antonia Fraser
• The accidental history of the U.S. immigration courts : war, fear, and the roots of dysfunction / Alison Peck
• To die for the people : the writings of Huey P. Newton / edited by Toni Morrison
• My body is not a prayer request : disability justice in the church / Amy Kenny
• 8 billion and counting : how sex, death, and migration shape our world / Jennifer D. Sciubba
• What's your zip code story? : understanding and overcoming class bias in the workplace / CJ Gross
• My old Kentucky home : the astonishing life and reckoning of an iconic American song / Emily Bingham
• Liarmouth : a feel-bad romance / John Waters
• Can fish count? : what animals reveal about our uniquely mathematical minds / Brian Butterworth

This tag will show you all of the prior lists of new materials, in reverse chronological order. We are eager to hear from you about individual items you would like us to buy, or types of items we should be on the look out for, or general subject areas we should build up in the collection.

If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Alan Kelley (kelleya@miamioh.edu), or drop by the library with your request. And pass your general suggestions or comments about the collection to us in those same ways. 

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!

June's Middletown Book for Discussion: Eligible (June 28)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, June 28.  Our title is Curtis Sittenfeld's Eligible.  Here is a brief summary:

" A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice...Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown (Cincinnati) when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon."  

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.  In addition to discussing Hamnet, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their May 31 meeting:

• The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare, Arliss Ryan
• Shakespeare: the World As Stage, Bill Bryson
• Upstart Crow (BBC sitcom about Shakespeare)
  
• Grandma Gatewood's Walk: the Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail, Ben Montgomery
• How the Wild Effect Turned Me Into a Hiker at 69, Jane Congdon
• Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
• State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
• The Sixteen Trees of the Somme, Lars Mytting
• The Two Family House, Lyndia Cohen Loigman
• The Honey-Don't List, Christina Lauren
• What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life, Mark Doty
• Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series
• The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
• A Million Reasons Why, Jessica Strawser
• The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi
• The Salt Eaters, Toni Cade Bambara

We will meet at 12 pm on the 28th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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Passcode: 678264

‬

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom 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

"Filoli Garden" by jimgris is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.