Book Club Book Announcement
Are you ready to get reading? I know I’m excited to get the club off the ground and start reading our great selections!
Our first official book club meeting is coming up quickly on September 30th at noon. Our opening selection is a play by Tom Stoppard called Arcadia. This quick 97-page comedy plays between two centuries in a single setting, discussing science, society, and love – “the attraction which Newton left out.” Feel free to bring your lunch to the discussion; we’ll provide coffee.
As discussed at our initial planning meeting, we have selected autobiography/memoir as the next genre to explore. I have selected one of the suggestions from our planning meeting, This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff for our gathering on October 28th at noon. In this 300-page memoir, Wolff details his adolescence as he travels across the United States with his mother in the 1950s.
Heading into November, I have chosen Paul Newman’s In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time, to represent the club’s interest in inspirational reading. In this book Newman and business partner A.E. Hotchner discuss the creation of Newman’s Own. This meeting will be on November 18th at noon. Please note that this is the third Wednesday in the month since the OSU Urban Arts will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Books can be found at local libraries, online, and local bookstores. Audio books can also be found online through retailers such as Amazon.com.
Up-coming genres the book club will explore later this year and next are:
December - Ohio History
January - Science Fiction
February - Philosophy
March - Contemporary American
Do you have a book title you’d like to suggest to the club? Great! Please, submit suggestions, questions, and comments to my attention via email: uas@osu.edu.
Thanks and keep reading,
Nicole Eggert
Operations Student Assistant
The OSU Urban Arts Space Book Club
Where? The OSU Urban Arts Space on 50 W Town Street
When? The last Wednesday of every month from Noon-1pm
posted by OSU Urban Arts Space at
3:49 PM
2 Comments:
Hi! I got this link through molly's blog and I'd be very interested in joining this bookclub! My brain's turning to jello and I could really use some new book ideas. Sign me up!
If you like This Boys Life, then try Lucky by Alice Sebold.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home