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).

The Soul of an Octopus

By Sy Montgomery

QL430.3 .O2 M66 2016

Scientists have only recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. With her “joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.