Books we are considering reading and discussing in the future. We’ll be voting on these to select the next several months’ worth. If you have books you’d like to discuss, please send your recommendations on the “contact” page, or bring them to the next meeting!
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Fiction suggested by Barbara 1980 a wealthy businessman is brutally kidnapped and returned one week later. Forty years later all the family is still suffering the repercussions. Amazon: In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned […]
The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman Non-Fiction suggested by Shirley Hillman dares us to believe that we are meant to be here, that we are needed by the world around us. A powerful roadmap to understanding our true nature. Amazon: Plato called it “daimon,” the Romans “genius,” the Christians “guardian […]
A Year of the Hunter by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine Non-Fiction suggested by Shirley One year in Nobelist Milosz’ life, remembering his youth and the writers’ groups of Warsaw and Paris, his life in Berkeley in the sixties. Has he lived his life decently? Note: This book is hard to find on […]