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 to discuss what they’ve read and enjoy each others’ company.
It’s not too late to join in for our next book!
Slated for July is Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing – “The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.”
When: Wednesday August 2, 2023 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Where: My Parents’ Basement, 22 North Avondale Road, Avondale Estates, GA 30002
The Goodreads description of the book is as follows:
“In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.
“In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton’s fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.”
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 other 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
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus