UMRA Book Club I

The UMRA Book Club has been meeting regularly since March of 2011. We meet at 2 p.m. on the third Friday of every month at the 1666 Coffman Building on Larpenteur Avenue near the St. Paul Campus. Presently we are meeting online via Zoom.

We are eclectic readers, our books being from all time periods, fiction and nonfiction, and from various genres. We plan our book schedule for the coming year at our December meeting. 

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Contact Pat Tollefson for more information ([email protected]). A list of all the books we have read is available from Pat as well. 

The UMRA Book Club I is full at the present with a short waiting list. Contact us to get on the wait list. Or see Book Club II.

 
 

Interest group chairs—to get your events on the annual calendar, please send the event title, date, time, contact information, and description to the webmaster.

For Book Notes in addition to those from Book Club I (below), see the Book Notes page.

Upcoming Events

Half-Life of a Secret

Book Club I September: 'Half-Life of a Secret'

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Judy Helgen will lead the discussion of Half-Life of a Secret by Emily Strasser, the story of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, when the UMRA Book Club meets at 2 p.m. on Friday, September 20, via Zoom.

Should We Stay or Should We Go

Book Club I October: Should We Stay or Should We Go

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Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver.

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Book Notes

The Bookbinder

Book Notes | ‘The Bookbinder’ by Pip Williams

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The story takes place in Oxford, England, between 1914 and 1920. As men are sent to the continent to fight in the Great War, women in England work to keep the nation going. Peggy and Maude are twin sisters who work together binding books for the Oxford University Press.

See Past News and Notes