Book Club II
All Book Club II articles are collected here.
Book Notes | ‘Being Mortal’Event Date: "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, inspired a spirited and sometimes somber discussion by members of UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club about end-of-life health challenges. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club October meetingEvent Date:The 19th-century novel Notes from the Underground is the selection for the meeting of UMRA's Fourth Friday Book Club on October 28. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club September meetingEvent Date:The Russian classic Fathers and Sons is the selection for the Fourth Friday Book Club meeting in September. More... |
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Book notes | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineEvent Date: Members of UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club enjoyed a lively discussion of author Gail Honeyman’s prize-winning debut novel and what it reveals about the importance of friendship and care to the development of the quirky main character. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to meet August 26Event Date:Where the Crawdads Sing is the selection for the Fourth Friday Book Club meeting on August 26 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. CDT via Zoom. More... |
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Book notes | Strangers in Their Own LandEvent Date: On June 24, at the end of a week like no other (House Jan. 6 committee hearings, and Supreme Court decisions on gun control in New York and overturning Roe v. Wade), UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club had a deep and passionate discussion on Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to meet May 27Event Date:All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is the Fourth Friday Book Club selection for its meeting on May 27 via Zoom. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to meet April 22Event Date:“A Tale of Two Cities” is historical fiction at its best, and is remarkably, and sadly, relevant today. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to meet March 25Event Date:Iron Lake, by master storyteller William Kent Krueger, is the book selection for UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club meeting on Friday, March 25, via Zoom. More... |
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Fourth Friday Book Club to meet February 25Event Date:Everyone is welcome when UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club (aka Book Club II) meets February 25 to discuss The Doctors Blackwell. More... |
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Book Club II to meet January 28Event Date:How better to mark our first year of Fourth Friday Book Club than with another selection from the series of detective novels, set in the Périgord region of France, by Martin Walker. More... |
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Book Club II to meet December 3Event Date:The Fourth Friday Book Club selection for its meeting in December is Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. More... |
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Book notes | A Confederacy of DuncesEvent Date: For those with contemporary 2021 sensibilities, "A Confederacy of Dunces"—acclaimed as a literary masterpiece after it was published posthumously in 1980—is a canonical work of modern literature, best understood as a period piece. More... |
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Book notes | Invisible ManEvent Date: First published in 1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is not a one-dimensional novel about racial unrest. Members of URMA’s Fourth Friday Book Club found it to be a book rich in ideas. More... |
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Book notes | Pale Horse, Pale RiderEvent Date: More than a century after the timeframe of this tale of harrowing illness and intertwined heartbreak, the parallels with today’s COVID-19 pandemic and current wars struck Book Club II participants as eerie. More... |
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