Main Library Book Club

Join the Main Library Book Club at the Main Branch Library, hosted by Librarian, Mandie Marron.  

We will be reading Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks.  

Copies of this book are available for book club attendees.  Please email Mandie at amarron@sjcfl.us or call the Main Library at 904-827-6940.

A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. Four friends traveling to the moon in a rocketship built in the backyard. These are just some of the stories that Tom Hanks captures in his first work of fiction.

The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central.

To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty, and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In these stories, Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level. By turns whimsical, witty, and moving, Uncommon Type establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction.