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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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.