December's Middletown Book for Discussion: Time of the Child (December 19)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, December 19.  Our title is Time of the Child by Niall Williams.  Here is a brief summary:

"Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love -- and passed up another offer of marriage from an unsuitable man. But in the Advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy's lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care." (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book (well, this gets interesting):

• There are currently no copies available at Miami or in OhioLINK, but I have ordered a copy for the Gardner-Harvey Library, and hope to have it arrive the week after Thanksgiving break (please check with me if you need it).
  
• SearchOhio, allowing for lending among over 40 public library systems in Ohio and also OhioLINK, is still not operating (but should come back in the new year). If you have a card for MidPointe, Lane, or Cincinnati Public, you can find available copies through those systems. Germantown Public Library does not have a copy of their own, but they are part of the SEO (Serving Every Ohioan) Consortium, and there are 24 copies available from those libraries. And SearchOhio might surprise me and hop into action in December, so check through your local public library for additional copies from around Ohio.
• 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 The Madstone, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their November 21 meeting:

The Which Way Tree, Elizabeth Crook

Vianne, Joanne Harris

Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Correspondent, Virginia Evans

Coming Home, Brittney Griner
Rosamunde Pilcher (author)
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, Robert Dugoni

The Lost Passenger, Frances Quinn

Ghost Forest, Pik-Shuen Fung

The Black Wolf, Louise Penny

A Bitter Feast, Deborah Crombie

The Stationery Shop, Marjan Kamali

Mina's Matchbox, Yoko Ogawa

The Third Realm,  Karl Ove Knausgaard

We will meet at 11:30 am on the 19th 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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