Book Club II
All Book Club II articles are collected here.
Fourth Friday Book Club in AugustEvent Date:The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club in JulyEvent Date:Still Life by Louise Penny. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club in JuneEvent Date:H is for Hawk: A Memoir on Grief and Falconry by Helen Macdonald, published 2016. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club in MayEvent Date:I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, published in 1934, will be up for discussion when UMRA's Fourth Friday Book Club meets via Zoom on May 23. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club April 25Event Date:The Black Count: Glory and Betrayal by Tom Reiss, published in 2012 and winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in biography, will be the selection for discussion when UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club meets via Zoom at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 25. Newcomers are welcome. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club meeting in MarchEvent Date:UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club will discuss The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson when it meets on Friday, March 28, via Zoom. It is a horrifying and compelling read. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to meet February 28Event Date:The Fourth Friday Book Club will meet via Zoom on February 28 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. CST to discuss The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club in JanuaryEvent Date:Selection: Middlemarch by George Elliot. More... |
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Book Club II: White NoiseEvent Date:UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club will discuss White Noise, the eighth novel by the master storyteller Don DeLillo, when it meets on Friday, November 22, by way of Zoom. Newcomers are welcome. More... |
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Book Club II: Vintage MunroEvent Date:Vintage Munro is a collection of short stories from throughout the literary career of author Alice Munro, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club: 'Main Street'Event Date:October is the season for Nobel Prize announcements, so it is fitting that UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club will be reading books by two Nobel Prize-winning authors this fall: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis and Vintage Munro by Alice Munro. More... |
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In the Garden of BeastsEvent Date:Erik Larson’s non-fiction narrative recounts the struggles of middle-class University of Chicago, Professor William Dodd, was appointed as U.S. ambassador to Germany during the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich. Dodd not only had to deal with the threats to democracy, but his thriftiness was criticized by State Department officials who mainly came from wealthy elite families. In addition, Dodd’s daughter began dating Nazi officials. More... |
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Edith Wharton – The Age of InnocenceEvent Date:Edith Wharton is best known for her stories about upper-class New York society into which she was born. Age of Innocence is her eighth novel, published in 1920 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. More... |
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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