Virtual Book Discussion

All Month Online Book Discussion

This discussion group is a "drop-in anytime" during the month and post your answers and comments to the group's page on Goodreads. This month's title is Letters from Max by Max Ritvo and Sarah Ruhl.

Anyone is welcome to join the discussion, and we will be discussing a book every month. The book club will be reading mostly fiction with nonfiction sprinkled in. The discussion group is a "drop in anytime" during the month and post to the group's page on Goodreads. NWA's Online Book Disscussion.

Polite questions and comments on other participant's posts is encouraged.

It doesn’t matter how you access the book title that we are reading; however, we will only be selecting titles that are available through Hoopla so anyone using Hoopla can have a copy. You can download the app for free. Find out more about Hoopla here.

October's title is: Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship, by Max Ritvo and Sarah Ruhl

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer.

Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo's exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. "We'll always know one another forever, however long ever is," Ritvo writes. "And that's all I want--is to know you forever."

We will be posting the book title along with discussion questions. Please copy and paste the questions into your response post after you have read the title. And, if you see a title that the group has already read and discussed, feel free to add your thoughts to that title’s discussion thread.

Lastly, the Akron-Summit County Public Library prides itself as a safe and inclusive place. This online discussion group is no different and will be subject to the library’s Patron Behavior Guidelines (www.akronlibrary.org/about/policies/p...).

• This Program will be presented on GoodReads.com

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