San Diego Beer and Book Club

We are trying something new! Join the group mid-month for a cultural discussion based on a book+podcast.

We are starting with
-All Fours by Miranda July and
-her interview on the Modern Love podcast (free on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ah71ZGdP_oo?si=aqP0w-MC4Xo4vNMJ).

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Our fantasy selection is A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. This is the first of six books in the Earthsea Cycle series.

From Goodreads:

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth.

Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
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This month we will read the classic novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

From Goodreads:
Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.