MCCC Book Club

The MCCC book club is open to all MCCC employees and students. The club was started by the Library Staff in Winter 2023, with a new book being selected to read each semester. The book club meets two times per semester at 12:30 in the Library. It is a fun, lunchtime club that encourages thoughtful opinions and discussions. The best part of the club has been getting to know people from all across campus through a shared joy of reading.

Students are welcome to join club, but we would also like to encourage them to consider joining the student led book club run by SLAC (The Student Library Advisory Club).

For more information about either club, please stop by the Library or email Elizabeth Hartig (ehartig@monroeccc.edu).

Sea of Tranquility

By Emily St. John Mandel

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. 

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. 

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.