August's Middletown Book for Discussion: Gender Queer (August 4)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, August 4.  Our title is Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer.  Here is a brief summary:

"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies (of either the 2019 or 2022 printings) available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle 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 Perestroika in Paris, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their July 7 meeting:

• Am I Blue?, Alice Walker
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
• Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life, Peter Walsh
  
• It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward, Elizabeth Passarella
  
• Die With Zero, Bill Perkins
• River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard
  
• The Lioness, Chris Bohjalian
  
• Suddenly 60, Judith Viorst
• Cheerful By Request, Edna Ferber
• Becoming Grandma, Lesley Stahl
• Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami
• The Backstreets : a novel from Xinjiang, Perhat Tursun
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 4th 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

"Gender Queer" by Earthworm is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.