The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, September 18. Our title is The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick. Here is a brief summary:
"By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman's dream. So why doesn't that feel like enough? Margaret is thrown for a loop when she first meets Charlotte Gustafson. As an excuse to be in the mysterious Charlotte's orbit, Margaret concocts a book club get-together and invites two other neighborhood women. As the women share secrets, cocktails, and their reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique, they have no idea their impromptu club and the books they read will become the glue that helps them hold fast through what will prove to be the most consequential and freeing year of their lives." (publisher)
Here is where you can find the book:
- There are copies available from Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio, all searchable and requestable from the Miami University Libraries Search catalog. You may also access SearchOhio through your local public library.
- Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.
We will meet at 11:30 am on the 18th both in Room 123 in the Library and on Zoom. Join the Zoom here!
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 Yesteryear, the
- Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix
- The Secret, Book, & Scone Society, Ellery Adams
- Educated, Tara Westover
- The Crash, Freida McFadden
- Three books are featured in the MU Regionals Passport to Programming for Fall 2026, and authors will be coming to the Hamilton campus (see the schedule of those talks here): A Founding Mother (Laura Kaye and Stephanie Dray), A Perfect Union (Catherine Allgor), and Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church (Hahrie Han).
- Theo of Golden, Allen Levi
- Trash! A Garbageman's Story, Simon Pare-Poupart
- Sisters in Yellow, Mieko Kawakami
- In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
- 1776 - David McCullough
- The Greatest Sentence Ever Written - Walter Isaacson (about the Declaration of Independence)
- Dickens and Prince - Nick Hornby
- The Souls of Black Folks - W.E.B. DuBois
- Family of Spies - Christine Kuehn (a Nazi family who assisted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)
- The Impeachers - Brenda Wineapple
Please come along to our discussions to share what you've been reading/watching/listenin
If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/
John
"Gapers Block Book Club: Water for Elephants" by danxoneil is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
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