Book Club II
All Book Club II articles are collected here.
Fourth Friday Book Club to meet May 24Event Date: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. More... |
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FF Book Club to meet April 26Event Date: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. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to meet March 22Event Date:Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, a recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and other awards, is the Fourth Friday Book Club’s selection for March. The setting is Appalachia in the early days of the opioid epidemic. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to read 'The Bluest Eye' by Toni MorrisonEvent Date:The Bluest Eye, published in 1970 and the first novel by Toni Morrison, is next up for UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club when it meets via Zoom on February 23. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to welcome special guest Julie SchumacherEvent Date:.UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club discuss Dear Committee Members with special guest and New York Times bestselling author Julie Schumacher when it meets via Zoom on January 26. More... |
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Book Club II to meet December 1Event Date:UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club will discuss The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy when it meets on Friday, December 1. This is a departure from the usual fourth Friday meeting to accommodate the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. More... |
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The memoirs of Frederick DouglassEvent Date:The Fourth Friday Book Club will meet from 2 to 3:30 p.m. CDT on October 27 to discuss the life and narrative of Frederick Douglass. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to discuss classic short stories by Herman MelvilleEvent Date:We will discuss three famous short stories by Herman Melville. These classics are widely available. Even if we have studied them before, we will surely have new insights into these well-told tales by this great 19th-century American author. More... |
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‘Beowulf’ is the FF Book Club selection for August 25Event Date:UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club recently read the Epic of Gilgamesh translation by Stephen Mitchell. Next up, for the group’s August 25 meeting, is Beowulf. One of the only Old English works to survive, it is a powerful story of unwavering integrity, heroism, and honor More... |
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‘Mrs. Dalloway’ is FF Book Club selection for July 14Event Date:In a departure from its regular schedule, UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club will be meeting on the THIRD Friday in July, to discuss Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. More... |
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‘Gilgamesh: A New English Version’ is FF Book Club selection for MayEvent Date:Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New English Version, published in 2004, has been acclaimed by scholars and critics alike as a lithe, muscular rendering of the epic of Gilgamesh, first published 5,000 years ago. More... |
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'Empire Falls' is Fourth Friday Book Club selection for AprilEvent Date:UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club will meet April 28 to discuss Empire Falls by Richard Russo, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is a familiar story of shuttered factories, failed businesses, and a diminished civic and cultural community. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to discuss Louise Erdrich’s debut novelEvent Date:Members of UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club will discuss Minnesota-born author Louise Erdrich’s 1984 debut novel Love Medicine when they meet via Zoom in March. It is a story of love and survival, of the comic and the tragic. More... |
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Dystopian novel is FF Book Club selection for FebruaryEvent Date:Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Orphan Master's Son is a dystopian novel set in North Korea that follows the misadventures of Jun Do, a North Korean everyman. More... |
‘Red Notice’ is FF Book Club pick for January meetingEvent Date:A well-told financial saga and crime thriller, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice is the compelling memoir of an accidental activist. More... |