Durham Books, Movies and More

We read the book Say Nothing a few years ago and loved it. It is a non fiction book about the troubles in Northern Ireland.
Let's meet and discuss the TV adaptation, which is on Hulu. It is 9 episodes. You are welcome to join if you have only read the book, or if you have watched part of the show but haven't had a chance to finish. If you are not familiar with the story, here's a description:

FX’s limited series Say Nothing is a gripping story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The 9-episode series is based on the book by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Spanning four decades, the series opens with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again.
Telling the story of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, Say Nothing explores the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly tip over into armed conflict, the long shadow of radical violence for all affected, and the emotional and psychological costs of a code of silence.

I posted too soon and 11/30 is not going to work for me. Hopefully more people can come in two weeks. DISCLAIMER: the time is subject to change but will be 3:00-5:00.

This theater has you choose your seat, so we won't be sitting together. We can regroup in the lobby afterward and get something to eat at the mall.

Wicked is a prequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and its film adaptation, The Wizard of Oz (1939). The musical is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. It tells the story of Elphaba, a young woman with emerald-green skin who is smart, fiery, and misunderstood, and Glinda, a popular blonde who is born into luxury and privilege. Their rivalry turns into an unlikely friendship, but the world decides to call one "good" and the other "wicked".

DECEMBER 2024 BOOK DISCUSSION
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Hosted by Alia

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.