Books we have read and discussed over the years since we started meeting.
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi Fiction suggested by Shirley In a future Thailand, calories are the greatest commodity. Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man. He combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of food thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko, the […]
Fear by Bob Woodward; Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff; A Higher Loyalty by James Comey Non-Fiction: a trilogy of books about Trump … Read one or two or three of the following books and we will discuss all three in one evening to be presented by Toni and all of us. Fear: Trump in […]
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See Fiction suggested by Janet Amazon description: … a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters. In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced […]
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Non-Fiction suggested by Janet Blink is about the first two seconds of looking, snap judgments, choices that seem to be made in an instant that actually aren’t as simple as they seem, and about how we can make better instant judgments by training our mind […]
A History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Fiction suggested by Barbara Achingly beautiful prose, haunting, lyrical, disturbing, a web of mysteries, a glimmer of dread. Teenage Linda lives on a failed commune in the austere north Minnesota woods. Her life of solitude cracks open when her history teacher is charged with child pornography. The new […]
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker Non-Fiction suggested by Janet “My new favorite book of all time.” –Bill Gates “A terrific book…[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health to wars, the environment to happiness, equal rights to quality of life.” –The New York […]
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Fiction suggested by Anca An Amazon Best Book of October 2016, about racism, choice, fear, and hope. Based on the true story of a labor and delivery nurse who was prohibited from caring for a newborn because the white supremacist father requested that no African-American tend to his baby. […]
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Non-Fiction suggested by Terry A National Book Award Finalist and Amazon Best Book of 2017, a true crime historical account, disturbing and wonderfully told. It captures an era of lawlessness and greed in frontier life in Oklahoma in the 1920s. After oil was discovered beneath their land, […]
We hardly ever cancel a meeting, but we decided to skip this one due to the holiday.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Fiction suggested by Sharon Under house arrest in a luxury hotel, Count Rostov lives an absorbing, adventurous existence, filled with capers, conspiracies and culture. The relationships he forms with staff and guests, his handling of twists of fate, his moral rectitude and his perseverance make for a compelling […]