Books with a Buzz

Hi Bee Members! Thank you so much for submitting your votes! I'm so excited to read this book with you guys from a local indie author, I think it would be such a treat to have the author come and join us! We'll be holding this exclusive event so that all members can share their takeaways and get to know the author; all the while sharing some hidden insights that perhaps we missed.

The book we'll be reading is "Wilders" by Cass Kim

You're welcome to attend even if you haven't quite finished the book, as long as you don't mind spoilers being discussed. Attendees should generally expect to order something to eat or drink.

Also I just created an Instagram account for Books With A Buzz, so please follow us for fun updates on our page!
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Here's a description of the book:

The forest behind Renna's home is dark and dense. It hold more secrets than she knows. Having grown up in the half-pocalypse, a world balancing against the tide of a blood-borne virus, Renna knows the rules by heart:

1. Stay inside between dusk and dawn.
2. Close and lock the copper and silver screens.
3. Report anyone suspected of infection immediately.

Now, at seventeen, Renna must survive against the rules.

-An unprecedented attack.

- A strange boy with copper eyes.

Can Renna survive the darkness to save those she loves?

Rated: 4.32 on Goodreads

You can buy the whole Trilogy through this link here: https://www.amazon.com/Wilders-Complete-Trilogy-Cass-Kim-ebook/dp/B086H59DN6/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=G8Y3n&content-id=amzn1.sym.f8e88413-4697-42ea-9bf7-b28eb886330d&pf_rd_p=f8e88413-4697-42ea-9bf7-b28eb886330d&pf_rd_r=145-7765233-2200765&pd_rd_wg=CbXW5&pd_rd_r=990f6a5f-a1b8-4129-9bae-551dd8b9f6b2

Or if you're interest in only the first book; here is the link to her debut: https://www.amazon.com/Wilders-Cass-Kim-ebook/dp/B07RQ74LG7/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=j67x1&content-id=amzn1.sym.3a079c4e-f938-40c9-a0ed-01ef0e9528e9&pf_rd_p=3a079c4e-f938-40c9-a0ed-01ef0e9528e9&pf_rd_r=145-7765233-2200765&pd_rd_wg=VBFA2&pd_rd_r=2462fe59-55f7-4ed8-b365-c1433726ea6c

If you're not interested in being the organizer but you'd like to host a one-time meeting, it's easy! Just pick a book, a date, and a venue, and commit to attending! Message the organizer to find out more. Don't be shy: We have over 1,000+ members, so there are sure to be a few people who want to read whatever book you're excited about. We're always looking for hosts to help keep the book club vibrant!

At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems.

In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast?

Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries--the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers--that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw.

The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.

Hi Buzzy Bees! Great news! Books with a Buzz will be showcased in the the next upcoming Oahu Indie Book Festival.

The festival will take place inside the "Volcanic Rock Gym" in Kailua and it will be an evening event starting from 6 PM - 8:30 PM.

Please come and check out the latest that local authors have to offer.
There will be food, prizes, author panels, and (most importantly) BOOKS!
Plus it will be a perfect opportunity to meet authors in person and receive a signed copy of their book!

The Books with a Buzz event will be held towards the end of the festival to talk story and welcome in new members into the club.

I'll be volunteering for this event so I'll be floating around the area. If you are interested in volunteering in the festival, please feel free to reach out to me and I'll get back to you with more details.

Can't wait to see you guys there! Hope you can come! 🐝

The Unreal and the Real: selected stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. This is a book of short stories by a grand mistress of Science Fiction & Fantasy. The second volume includes the story The ones who walk away from Omelas.
You don't have to read both books. Just read the stories that interest you.

My apologies for originally posting just the first volume, which did not contain the short story that was suggested at the last meeting.