June's Middletown Book for Discussion: Revisiting a Book From Your Past (June 14)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, June 14.  We are not all reading the same title this time, but taking on more of a challenge: what is a book you've read in your past, perhaps a classic from middle school or high school, that you did not enjoy? Try reading it now, and share with the group how your perspective may have changed. We think this will be a fun experience for each individual, but will also give us a chance to discuss many books in the same session.

What will your choice be? Beowulf? The Importance of Being Earnest? The Old Man and the Sea? The Great Gatsby? Lord of the Flies? The Tempest? 

Here is where you can find the book you choose:

• Check the catalogs for copies at Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  

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 Days Without End, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their May 14 meeting:

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out, Shannon Reed

Olivetti, Allie Millington
The Last Supper, Rachel Cusk
The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Women, Kristin Hannah
All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley
A Thousand Moons, Sebastian Barry
Pym, Mat Johnson
Beowulf
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

We will meet at 12 pm on the 14th 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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Join us for our May events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our May events!  If you have any questions about them, please let us know. Additional information on the events is available (and will be updated) in our Events Calendar.  Everyone is welcome to attend!

TEC Lab: May the 4th Be With You

Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 2-4pm

We know the calendar says it’s the eighth, but we’re celebrating this “Star Wars”- themed holiday by crafting items that are out of this world! Join us in the Library from 2-4 PM.

Animals You Know of But Not About: Echinodermata

Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 4pm

Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of common but largely unknown animals. Join us in the SPACE (room 014) and on Zoom at 4pm. 

 

Image courtesy François Michonneau HectonichusPhilippe Bourjon Hectonichus Philippe Bourjon Bruce Martin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

 

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 the New Media Display to help guide you to titles, or at our recently updated display for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (shown above)!  You may also skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in April!  

We added 45 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: 

• Tracing homelands : Israel, Palestine, and the claims of belonging / by Linda Dittmar
• New cold wars : China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West / David E. Sanger, with Mary K. Brooks
• Kids across the spectrums : growing up autistic in the digital age / Meryl Alper
• Machine learning Q and AI : 30 essential questions and answers on machine learning and AI / by Sebastian Raschka
• Thank you please come again : how gas stations feed & fuel the American South : a photographic road trip / by Kate Medley   foreword by Kiese Laymon
• While we were burning / Sara Koffi
• James : a novel / Percival Everett
• All the campus lawyers : litigation, regulation, and the new era of higher education / Louis H. Guard and Joyce P. Jacobsen
• Future of denial : the ideologies of climate change / Tad DeLay
• Countdown : the blinding future of nuclear weapons / Sarah Scoles

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. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection!