Loosely Bound Afternoon In-Person
This Month Selection: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
Summary: Every day Iona Iverson, a stylish, opinionated, larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, rides the train to work with her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Bookworm and Mr-Too-Good-to-Be-True. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do.
Then one morning, the man she calls Smart-But-Sexist-Manspreader chokes on a grape right in front of her. He’d have died were it not for the timely intervention of Sanjay, a nurse, who gives him the Heimlich maneuver.
This single event starts a chain reaction, and an eclectic group of people discovers that talking to strangers can teach you quite a bit about the world around you—and even more about yourself.
Copies of this month's selection are available at Storrs Library, as well as online in our Libby catalog.
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 14, 2025
- Time:
- 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Betty Ann Low Meeting Room
- Audience:
- Adults
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- Book Discussions