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Welcome to Shelf Indulgence! Our meetup group is for everyone who wants to chat over books. Come having read the entire book, part of the book, or maybe even just the first page (if you don't mind spoilers!).
Over the years we've read a little bit of everything with a mix of older titles and newer releases.
Upcoming events
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Movie Night: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Location not specified yetJoin us to see Project Hail Mary on opening night! We will plan for a movie start time in the 6:30pm-7:30 pm hour so that after, we can meet up for a drink and discussion. Feel free to bring a friend! Reading the book first is recommended, however, not required!
Please note that the the RSVP end date is early (in FEB.) in the event the ticket sales start early.
The movie will either be at: Regal Medlock
CMX CineBistro Halcyon
Regal AvalonFrom Bookshop.org:
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
8 attendees
Octopus Month!
Six Bridges Brewing, 11455 Lakefield Drive, Suite 300, Johns Creek, GA, USOne fiction. One non-fiction. Read them both or just read one, up to you!
Remarkably Bright Creatures is the story of friendship between Tova and Marcellus, the Octopus. It will be released on Netflix in May.
The Soul of an Octopus: The Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness is written by a naturalist set on learning more about the mollusk.
6 attendees
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Six Bridges Brewing, 11455 Lakefield Drive, Suite 300, Johns Creek, GA, USFrom Bookshop.org:
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the next American Migration
Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
The “closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.
Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming worsens over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world, fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don’t realize is that the consequences of climate change are already visible, right here in the United States. In communities across the country, climate disasters are pushing thousands of people away from their homes.
A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is “a vivid tour of the new human geography just coming into view” (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth). From half-drowned Louisiana to fire-scorched California, from the dried-up cotton fields of Arizona to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. In the last few decades, the federal government has moved tens of thousands of families away from flood zones, and tens of thousands more have moved of their own accord in the aftermath of natural disasters. Insurance and mortgage markets are already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pricing people out of risky areas.
Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what will be the largest migration in our country’s history. Jake Bittle is “an empathetic writer” (NPR) who compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives—erasing historic towns and villages, pushing people toward new areas, and reshaping the geography of the United States.
9 attendees
Past events
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