Posts Tagged ‘book club’
Thursday, August 14th – 7:00 pm
looking for a book club?
Try ours! Â Anywhere from a half dozen to a dozen people show up once a month (two of them have been coming for more than 15 years! while others come and go) to discuss a wide range of books — from lightweight confections to serious fiction, issue oriented stuff, historical tomes, popular culture, the gamut……
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Thursday, September 12th at 7:00 pm
Bird & Beckett Political Book Discussion Group
This group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month to consider books on current issues or with some historical relevance to what’s going on now… This month’s selection is The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz. Next month (October 10), the group will discuss a pair of unpublished manuscripts by Greg Harmon, “Commentaries from a…
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Thursday, August 8th, 7 pm
The Righteous Mind by Haidt
Bird & Beckett Political Book Group
This week’s subject of discussion is Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. Anyone can come and join the discussion, and take part in choosing future books… Following are some thoughts on the book by one of the regulars in the group, Dwight Smith: The Righteous Mind I…
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