MPL Buzz – Our Staff Blog

• New Fiction Coming in September August 15, 2019
  Jeffrey Archer – Nothing Ventured Linwood Barclay – Elevator Pitch Nevada Barr – What Rose Forgot Meg Cabot – No Judgments Tracy Chevalier – A Single Thread Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Water Dancer Clive Cussler – The Titanic Secret Vince Flynn – Lethal Agent Heather Graham – The Stalking Alice Hoffman – The World That […]
• An American Marriage August 7, 2019
  This month the Monday Evening Book Group discussed Tayari Jones’ novel, An American Marriage. The story follows an African American couple, Roy and Celestial, through Roy’s wrongful imprisonment and its aftermath. Relationships are at the heart of this book and Jones includes and array of them: friendships, parent and child relationships, and marriages. The complicated […]
• Mike’s Movie Minute: Shazam July 19, 2019
  Shazam comes to DVD on July 16, 2019 Since the advent of their whole cinematic universe, the DC movies have been pretty hit or miss. Well…mostly miss, in my opinion. Shazam (formerly Captain Marvel, retitled for obvious reasons) brings that ratio up to about 2:5. I think they made a good call by taking a […]
• Pachinko July 18, 2019
  This month, the Light Bite Book Club read and discussed Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. This National Book Award finalist follows a Korean family through four generations, beginning in Japan-occupied Korea, and later in Japan where they are considered immigrants, even after four generations. The novel opens with the line “History has failed us, but […]