On Oct 17 we start The American Way Of Poverty by Sasha Abramsky. We skip Thanksgiving, Nov 28.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Friday, September 24, 2021
Voting List
title and author | description | proposed | rank | pg |
Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte | Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? | kevin | 11 | 337 |
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S. Reynolds | insightful history of America during its bumptious adolescence | kevin | 6 | 484 |
An End to Suffering: by Pankaj Mishra | he reflects on his travels and on his own past, Mishra ultimately reaches an enlightenment of his own by discovering the living meaning of the Buddha's teaching, in this "unusually discerning, beautifully written, and deeply affecting reflection on Buddhism | kevin | 2 | 422 |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard | book details an unnamed narrator's explorations near her home, and various contemplations on nature and life. | Marcella | 9 | 304 |
Body of Work by Christine Montross | examination of the mysteries of the human body, and a remarkable look at our relationship with both the living and the dead | Kathy | 3 | 304 |
109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer by Jennet Conant | see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project | Kathy | 10 | 448 |
Shadow Network by Anne Nelson | group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. | Sharon | 7 | 448 |
Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy | The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America’s elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are | Sharon | 8 | 368 |
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari | explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. | Marcella | 4 | 455 |
How to Live by Sarah Bakewell | This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of Montainge's life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored | Marcella | 5 | 523 |
Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America by Stephen L. Klineberg | Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents fascinating and groundbreaking research that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America’s future—based on an unprecedented thirty-eight-year study of its changing economic, demographic, and cultural landscapes. | doug | 1 | 336 |
proposed by Doug
219 pages
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