Laura will lead the discussion in June. Her choices are:
Marie Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie
American Promethius: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
Growing up Amish by Ira Wagler
Thursday, April 5, 2012
May's Meeting Info -Gilead
May's discussion will be led by Christina at Susan's house on Thurs, May 10 at 8:00 pm. The book will be Gilead: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson. See you there!
April 2012- Cloud Atlas
Thanks to Allison for a great gourmet spread and an interesting discussion about Cloud Atlas. We talked about the different themes and motifs, like these quotes illustrate:
“Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
“If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.”
“What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
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