Book Club II
All Book Club II articles are collected here.
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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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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