December's Middletown Book for Discussion: Mad Honey (Dec. 1)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, December 1.  Our title is Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan's Mad Honey.  Here is a brief summary:

"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life--living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. [But then . . .] Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies 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 Between the World and Me, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their October 27 meeting:

• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
  
• The Bee Sting, Paul Murray
  
• If You Tell, Gregg Olsen
• A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham
• The Things We Leave Unfinished, Rebecca Yarros
• The Spectacular, Fiona Davis
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
  
• The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland, Marisa Scheinfeld
• Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier, Alan Zweibel
• A Right Worthy Woman, Ruth Watson
• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
• Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old, Steven Petrow
• Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Kate Andersen Brower
• Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations, William H. McRaven
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Memorial, Bryan Washington

We will meet at 12 pm on the 1st 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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