July's Middletown Book for Discussion: I Cheerfully Refuse (July 26)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, July 26.  Our title is I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger. Here is a brief summary:

"The tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami 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 books we were revisiting from our pasts (at the start of the list below), the group also shared these titles for consideration at their June 14 meeting:

The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Red Pony, John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Emma McChesney & Co., Edna Ferber
Table for Two, Amor Towles
The Demon of Unrest, Erik Larson
The Stranger in the Woods, Michael Finkel
The Gunkel Abroad, Steven Rowley
The Bodyguard, Katherine Center

All the Glimmering Stars, Mark Sullivan

Snowblind, Ragnar Jonasson

A Solitude of Wolverines, Alice Henderson

A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

Wild, Cheryl Strayed

The Titanic Survivors Book Club, Timothy Schaffert

We will meet at 12 pm on the 26th 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

"Morning Serenity on Lake Superior" by adlai7 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

New book (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in May!

 

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 Pride Month display (shown above)! You may also skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in May!  

We added 132 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: 

• The age of guilt : the super-ego in the online world / Mark Edmundson
• Playing big : practical wisdom for women who want to speak up, create, and lead / Tara Mohr
• Woman, life, freedom / Marjane Satrapi with Joann Sfar
• Klan war : Ulysses S. Grant and the battle to save Reconstruction / Fergus M. Bordewich
• One planet, many worlds : the climate parallax / Dipesh Chakrabarty
• Welcome to AI : a human guide to artificial intelligence / David L. Shrier
• Number go up : inside crypto's wild rise and staggering fall / Zeke Faux
• Who's afraid of gender? / Judith Butler
• Insulin : a hundred-year history / Stuart Bradwel
• Nuclear war : a scenario / Annie Jacobsen

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 John Burke (burkejj@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. 

We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection!