The Midway Woods Book Club is set to meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5 at My Parents’ Basement, 22 N Avondale Road, Avondale Estates, GA 30002. The group is reading Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel by Bonnie Garmus. Please join us!
Here’s a brief description of the novel: Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. This novel is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” (The New York Times Book Review) and “witty, sometimes hilarious…the Catch-22 of early feminism.” (Stephen King, via Twitter)
Lessons in Chemistry was selected as a book of the year The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, and Barnes & Noble.
https:////libromaniacs.com/lessons-in-chemistry-book-club-questions/ has posted information about the book, as well as questions to consider for book club discussions.
http://www.marmaladeandmustardseed.com/bookguidesblog/lessons-in-chemistry also has information about the book, including a round-up of the characters.
The Midway Woods Book Club meets regularly to discuss books of interest to the group. Book Club participants vote on which book to read next, and then meet up (virtually or, more recently, in person, at locations such as My Parents Basement in Avondale Estates) to discuss what they’ve read and enjoy each others’ company.
If you’d like to join the club, just send an email to midwaywoodscommunications@gmail.com and let us know you’d like to join! Just email us if you’d like to get in on the fun!
Among the books that the club has read and discussed in the past:
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption by Ian Manual.
- Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason by Gina Frangello
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
- Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel by Grady Hendrix
- The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
- Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
- Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethawey
- Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
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