Friends of MSU Library Book Group   Tags: subject_guide  

Have you read a good book lately—so good that you really have to talk about it? If you are interested in exploring book conversations in an informal social setting, the Friends of MSU Library Book Group may be perfect for you.

Anyone can join—whether you are a Friend, faculty, student, staff, retiree, alum, man, woman, couple, or single—join us! Contribute to the ongoing development of a great book group.

For more information about the group, contact

• Jan Zauha (jzauha@montana.edu) or
• Sheila Bonnand (sbonnand@montana.edu) or
• Library Administration at 406-994-3119

This group has met since Fall 2000.  We've read many great books over the years and the link below will take you to an Excel spread sheet listing all our past reads, when we discussed them, what category they fit into, and (sometimes) who led the discussion: 121 titles and still growing!

Help us build a list of books to read for our next year of discussions by suggesting a title. Give us a synopsis and tell us why others might want to read it.

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Click on Submit a Link and give us your name and contact, the title of your book, and a brief description.  We'll add it to the list for you!

• Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters by Mary Beth Green
  Watters explores the premise that the way the world looks at mental illness has a lot to do with the "importation" of American/Western ways of viewing different syndromes and diseases, including PTSD and schizophrenia. Good for discussion.
• What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct by Martha Love
  "What’s Behind Your Belly Button?" by M. C. Love and R. W. Sterling describes a new image of humankind and how gut feelings not only have a psychological intelligence of their own, but are also rational in their functioning on behalf of human needs.

  

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Here is a month by month list of the books the Friends of MSU Library Book Group has chosen to discuss this year. Many of these books can be found in the MSU Library or in the Bozeman Public Library's collection.

MAY 14, 2013: Travels with Myself and Another - Martha Gellhorn

ISBN: 1585420905

Publication Date: 2001-05-07

Discussion Leader = Susan Rabatin
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room

JUNE 4, 2013: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie; Ellen Forney (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0316013692

Publication Date: 2009-04-01

Discussion Leaders = Sheila Bonnand and Jan Zauha
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room
NOTE: This is a special, additional discussion scheduled during the Tribal College Librarians Institute at MSU. TCLI participants will be invited.

JUNE: 11, 2013: Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness - Alexandra Fuller

ISBN: 0143121340

Publication Date: 2012-06-26

Discussion Leader = Jan Zauha
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room

JULY 9, 2013: The Aquariums of Pyongyang - Pierre Rigoulot; Yair Reiner (Translator); Chol-Hwan Kang

ISBN: 0465011047

Publication Date: 2005-08-24

Discussion Leader = Tammy Beyer
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room

AUGUST 13, 2013: Birds in Fall - Brad Kessler

ISBN: 0743287398

Publication Date: 2007-03-13

Discussion Leader = Cynthia Logan
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013: ANNUAL BOOK SMORGASBORD -and- The Sweet Life in Paris - David Lebovitz

ISBN: 076792889X

Publication Date: 2011-03-01

Discussion Leaders = Barb Vanderwende and Jan Zauha
Time = 6-9 PM
Location = Jan's house, 327 S. Bozeman Ave.
Bring? 1-3 books to talk the group into reading and a dish to share.
In addition to discussing Lebovitz's book, we will choose 11 (or more!) books for our 2012-2013 reading calendar.

OCTOBER 9, 2012: Heart of Darkness and Selections from the Congo Diary - Joseph Conrad; Caryl Phillips (Introduction by)

ISBN: 9780375753770

Publication Date: 1999-08-10

Discussion Leader = Lynn Kaeding
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Room
NOTE = If possible please get the Modern Library Classics Edition.

NOVEMBER 13, 2012: Bound Like Grass - Ruth McLaughlin; Dee Garceau-Hagen (Foreword by)

ISBN: 0806143266

Publication Date: 2012-09-24

Discussion Leader = Mark Miller
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Jan's house at 327 S. Bozeman Ave.

DECEMBER 11, 2012: A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold; Charles W. Schwartz (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0195007778

Publication Date: 1968-12-31

Discussion Leader = Laura Hoehn
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room

JANUARY 8, 2013: Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese

ISBN: 0375714367

Publication Date: 2010-01-26

Discussion Leader = Julie Geyer
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2013: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gregory Rabassa (Illustrator); Gabriel García Márquez

ISBN: 006112009X

Publication Date: 2006-05-30

Discussion Leader = Judy Staigmiller
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room

MARCH 5, 2013: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

ISBN: 1586174266

Publication Date: 2010-08-01

Discussion Leader = Sheila Bonnand
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room
NOTE: We are meeting a week earlier this month to avoid Spring Break conflicts.

APRIL 9, 2013: A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

ISBN: 0684801469

Publication Date: 1995-06-01

Discussion Leader = Beth Kaeding
Time = 7-9 PM
Location = Bozeman Public Library, Small Community Meeting Room

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