[MD-Sligo] Sligo Creek Chapter Audio Book Club: Announcement of Book #3
Chikodinaka Oguledo
lovenwantintin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 05:14:57 UTC 2023
please add me for4 this verchual bookclub please please
On 7/8/23, Jeff Baer via MD-Sligo <md-sligo at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Dear Sligo Creek Chapter Members,
> During today's second meeting of our Chapter's Book Club, the attendees
> selected the next book and you are invited to read it and join us for the
> conversation, which has not yet been scheduled. This time around, the group
> chose a highly-rated work of fiction titled " The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray
> McBride", by author Joe Siple. The audiobook is available for free on the
> BARD mobile app or via the BARD or NLS website. Its listening duration is 8
> hours and 22 minutes, which is only 17 minutes per day when broken up over
> the course of a month! Its DB number is: DB104366. On GoodReads, reviewers
> gave it 4.64 stars out of 5, and Amazon users rated it even more highly.
> This audiobook is also available via Amazon's subscription "Audible"
> product, for those who prefer to use that method over BARD mobile or getting
> the books on cartridge from NLS. Its GoodReads synopsis is:
> "With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride
> is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a
> ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he
> wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time
> each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray
> remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the opportunity
> to grow old. But when tragedy strikes, their worlds are turned upside-down,
> and an unexpected gift is the only thing that can make Jason's final wish
> come true."
> The download link to the audiobook via the Library of Congress National
> Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) system is:
> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.104366
> If, for the first time, you would like to listen to or read the book and
> then join our group for the discussion, please contact me, Jeff Baer via
> e-mail at jabaer811 at outlook.com or call me at 410-499-0143, so I can include
> you in the process of choosing our next book club discussion date and time.
> It will be a virtual "Zoom Style" meeting with a phone dial-in option
> available.
> All previous participants in the book club will be automatically included in
> the planning unless they contact me to opt out.
> Thank you and have a great week!
> -Jeff
>
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