Book Club
Our regular Book Club weekly meetings are Wednesdays at 6:30 on Zoom. The link is below.. We look forward to seeing our regulars, plus anyone else who feels like dropping by!
Here is our first book this fall:
Why We are Polarized, by Ezra Klein. “America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together.”
Here is a sneak peak at other upcoming books we’ll be reading this year:
Lost City of the Monkey God, by Douglas Preston. “Douglas Preston is one of the most adventurous figures in American letters today. Inured to personal danger, braving venomous snakes and lethal pathogens, he somehow gets it all–the science, the history, the intrigues, the obsessive characters, the electric moment of discovery, and the haunted cries of a once-powerful civilization. Preston’s marvelous story is made all the more potent by the astonishing fact that, from beginning to end, it happens to be true.”
Unveiling Grace: The Story of How We Found Our Way out of the Mormon Church, Lynn K. Wilder. “I liked the story of Lynn and her family’s exit from the Mormon web. As another long-term recovering ex- LDS, this book well describes the drama within the church that sucks you in initially, and keeps you locked into the cult of Christian-like life although doctrines of the Bible are distorted. A fine read.”
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water, An underground journey with Afghan Refugees, by Matthieu Aikins. “The Naked Don’t Fear the Water is a riveting and heartrending look at the hidden world of refugees that challenged everything I thought I knew about the consequences of war and globalization. It’s the most important work on the global refugee crisis to date, and a crucial document of these tumultuous times. It will go down as one of the great works of nonfiction literature of our generation.” — Anand Gopal, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist No Good Men Among the Living
Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82737993837?pwd=aTRydEZkSWRRdGVGQUhPZDlDTHgvZz09