UMRA Book Club II: The Friendly Fourth Friday Book Club

We welcome new readers to join in discussing member-selected books, both fiction and non-fiction.  Currently, we are getting together on Zoom the fourth Friday of each month. November and December are combined and meet the first week of December due to the holidays.

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For more information, please contact either Dorothy Marden at [email protected] or Maggie Catambay at [email protected].

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

Upcoming Events


Silk Parachute, book cover
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Silk Parachute, an anthology of essays and the 40th of 44 published books by author John McPhee, will be the topic of discussion when UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club meets via Zoom from 2 to 3:30 p.m. CDT on April 26.


The Shakespeare Requirement, book cover
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UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club welcomes back, for the second time, author Julie Schumacher, U of M Regents professor of creative writing and English, for a conversation about her novel The Shakespeare Requirement.