January's Middletown Book for Discussion: When the Apricots Bloom (Jan. 20)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, January 20.  Our title is Gina Wilkinson's When the Apricots Bloom.  Here is a brief summary:

"At the turn of the millennium, three very different women must navigate the complexities of trust under the oppression of a brutal dictator."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, 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.  In addition to discussing Hour of the Witch, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their December 16 meeting:

• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 
• The Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson
• Golden Girl, Elin Hildebrand
• When Crickets Cry, Charles Martin
• Last Summer at the Golden Hotel, Elyssa Friedland
• The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• China, Edward Rutherfurd
• Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, Anne Edwards
• Nanaville, Anna Quindlen
• Trust, Hernan Diaz
• In Love, Amy Bloom
• The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Makes Us Whole, Susan Cain
• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus

We will meet at 12 pm on the 20th 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

John

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