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Books are made better by the conversations that happen about them.
Reading is isolating, unless you talk about the book. Then reading becomes a social experience within a community.
If you liked or did not like a book, and want to hear different thoughts on the book, this is a book club for you.
Want to create a habit of reading? The book club's community will support your drive.
Not sure about what you get out of books, or how to think about books, or how to apply the book's topics? Join the discussions and put your knowledge to the test.
This club primarily hosts non-fiction book club event, and some fiction. The value of the club comes from the discussions, and listening to everyone's views about the book. Everyone's different views. There will be agreement, but disagreement is permitted and encouraged. Everyone's diverse backgrounds will cause everyone to have different approaches to the topic which will elucidate arguments for and against the topic. What matters is how you engage with the information learned in the book and everyone's ideas. To seek out and understand the complexity of the topic.
A Note On Disagreement: Conflict is inevitable. Disagreement is inevitable. People come from different backgrounds, which causes them to interpret information differently. Sparking conflict and disagreement. Although conflict and disagreement cannot be avoided, each individual can choose how they respond to them. Everyone can choose how to fight. Can choose how to disagree. Everyone can make conflict and disagreement productive. Enabling everyone to become better. Disagreement causes a search for more information, for the reasons why others think differently. Which makes everyone more informed, better able to analyze the information. Knowing how to disagreement is a skill that can learned through practice.
There are conditions that are needed to facilitate an honest discussion about the different views everyone has, community guidelines. 1) To enable everyone be heard, everyone is able to speak. Priority goes to those who spoke less. 2) It is acceptable for everyone to err, and disagree. By finding out different information can any individual choose to error correct. For more community guidelines and the event's discussion, see Community Guidelines (Click Here).
The list of books are mostly member suggestions. Every cycle members suggest books, and then poll which books they wish to read. Books are selected for poll rank, and topic diversity. For details about How The Book List Gets Made, Click Here. Page contains the reasons why books are listed, and things to consider when suggesting books.
Club Maintenance:
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Basic Statistics:
Past Events = 140
Book Club Events = 133
Author Appearance = 7
Book Shop Visits = 6
Related Events = 1
Attendance: Average = 11, Standard Deviation = 6
Upcoming events
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•OnlineBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre | Book Club
OnlineSuggested by: Carol H.
Pages to read: 784
ISBN: 9780415278485 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9781982105464 (Edition Eugene is using)Eugene's review of the book (Blog Link, Click Here)
Community Guidelines (Meetup Link, Click Here)
All Upcoming event (Meetup Link, Click Here)
Forthcoming Similar Events:
TBDWhile reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is being?
•What is nothingness?
•What is consciousness?
•What is faith? What is bad faith?
•What is the past?
•What is the future?
•What are the dimensions of the body?
•What is shame?
•What is freedom?Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.
2 attendees
•OnlineThe Big Picture: Origins of Life, Meaning, Universe by Sean Carroll | Book Club
OnlineFull Title: The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
Suggested by: Member
Pages to read: 436
ISBN: 9780525954828 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780698409767 (Edition Eugene is using)Eugene's review of the book (Blog Link, Click Here)
Community Guidelines (Meetup Link, Click Here)
All Upcoming event (Meetup Link, Click Here)
Forthcoming Similar Events:
TBDWhile reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•Can people live forever?
•What is ontology?
•How do people think about the universe?
•What is naturalism?
•What were Galileo Galilei’s insight?
•What is the difference between physics and social sciences?
•What is Laplace’s Demon?
•What is Chaos Theory?
•What is quantum mechanics?
•What do people think of random chance?
•What is the Principle of Sufficient Reason?
•What is the difference between the Bing Bang model, and the Big Bang?
•What does the future of the universe look like?
•How does time function?
•What is Bayesian philosophy?
•What is coarse-graining?
•What are the different types of emergences?
•What is a stable set of beliefs?
•What is cognitive dissonance?
•What is confirmation bias?
•What is the difference between mathematical proofs and legal sufficient evidence?
•What is empiricism?
•How does evolution function?
•What are memories?
•What is consciousness?
•What is panpsychism?
•What is Gobel’s Incompleteness Theorem?
•Is there free will?
•What are the Ten Commandments?Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.
1 attendee
•OnlineCatherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie | Book Club
OnlineSuggested by: Book Shop Extra
Pages to read: 572
ISBN: 9780345408778 (Originally listed edition, & Edition Eugene is using)Eugene's review of the book (Blog Link, Click Here)
Community Guidelines (Meetup Link, Click Here)
All Upcoming event (Meetup Link, Click Here)
Forthcoming Similar Events:
TBDWhile reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•Who was Catherine the Great?
•Who is Peter the Great?
•Who was Elizabeth?
•Who are Elizabeth’s parents?
•Why was Elizabeth able to take the throne?
•Why was Elizabeth not able to marry?
•What did Elizabeth think of Catherine?
•What were the features of Elizabeth’s evening balls?
•Who is Peter Ulrick of Holstein?
•What did Catherine think of Russia?
•What did Peter think of Russia?
•How did Sophia become Catherine?
•How did Catherine’s and Peter’s relationship change?
•What happened during the marriage of Catherine and Peter?
•How did Catherine change after Paul was born?
•What threats did Catherine face when Elizabeth was close to death?
•Why did the Count Nikita Panin support Catherine?
•Why did the Gregory Orlov support Catherine?
•Why did the Catherine Dashkova support Catherine?
•How was Catherine treated during the reign of Peter III?
•What policies were enacted during the reign of Peter III?
•How did Catherine take the throne of Russia?
•What happened to Peter III after Catherine took the throne?
•How was Catherine’s succession different than what was expected?
•How did Catherine effect Russian sovereignty?
•How did Catherine effect Russian religion?
•How did Catherine effect Russian army?
•How did Catherine effect Russian navy?
•How did Catherine effect Russian medicine?
•What happened to the Catherine’s imperial allowance?
•What kind of authority did Catherine think was needed in Russia?
•What did Catherine and Voltaire correspond on?
•What did Catherine think of the French Revolution?
•What did Catherine think of Diderot?
•What did Arseniy want for Religion?
•How did Catherine effect serfdom?
•What was Catherine’s love life as empress?
•How did Catherine handle Gregory Orlov?
•Who was Potemkin?
•What were Potemkin villages?
•How did Catherine change Russian laws?
•Did Catherine marry someone after Peter?
•What was Catherine’s relationship with her son, Paul?
•What happened to Paul’s marriage?
•How did rumors change the court of Russia?
•Who is Otto Brümmer?
•How did Brümmer treat Peter?
•Who was Staehlin?
•How did Johanna treat Sophia (Catherine) as a child?
•Who was George Lewis?
•What was Prussia’s status during the 18th century?
•What did Frederick think of Sophia (Catherine)?
•What happened to Ivan VI?
•Who was Bestuzhev?
•What was Johanna’s responsibility in Russia?
•Who is Madame Krause?
•Who were the Chernyshevs?
•What did Catherine think of the treatment of Elendsheim?
•What happened when Catherine wanted to go to Carnival in 1758?
•What was the situation with Khitrovo?
•What was Poland’s political structure?
•How did Catherine effect Poland?
•Why was Poland partitioned?
•How did the Ottoman Empire effect Russia?
•Who are the Cossacks?
•Who was Pugachev?Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.
4 attendees
•OnlineThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera | Book Club
OnlineSuggested by: Melissa C
Pages to read: 180
ISBN: 9780060932145 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780063290693 (Edition Eugene is using)Eugene's review of the book (Blog Link, Click Here)
Community Guidelines (Meetup Link, Click Here)
All Upcoming event (Meetup Link, Click Here)
Forthcoming Similar Events:
TBDWhile reading the book, consider the below questions: (General)
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•Which story is your favorite?
•What is the political background of the stories?
•What is the history of Czechoslovakia?
•How did Russia affect Czechoslovakia?
•How did the people change their behavior?
•Are the interactions between men and women representative of behavior?
•What are the advantages and disadvantages of forgetting?
•What effect does laughing have?
•How do people influence each other?Lost Letters (Part One)
•Who is Clementis?
•What is the power of memory?
•Who is Mirek?
•Who is Zdena?
•What was the status of an intellectual?
•How did Germany influence Czechoslovakia?
•What happened to Czechoslovakia when the Russians arrived?
•Is there a difference between someone and their destiny?
•Why do people want power?Mama (Part Two)
•Who is Karel?
•Who is Marketa?
•Who is Karel’s mother?
•Who is Eva?
•What happens with Karel, Marketa, and Eva?
•What happens during the Karel’s mother’s visit?
•Why do Karel and Marketa want Karels’ mother to leave?
•What is the effect of jealousy?The Angels (Part Three) by Milan Kundera
•What are the different types of laughter?
•Who is Mr. Kundera?
•Who is the journalist?
•Who is the narrator?
•What article did the journalist write?
•What did the authorities think of the article?
•What did society think of the article?Lost Letters (Part Four)
•Who is Tamina?
•Why do people want to talk to Tamina?
•What does Tamina want the parcel?
•Where is the parcel supposed to be?
•What does Tamina’s mother-in-law know about the parcel?
•Why and how did Tamina leave Czechoslovakia?
•How does Tamina attempt to retrieve the parcel?
•Who is Bibi?
•Who is Banaka?Litost (Part Five)
•What is Litost?
•ho is Kristyna?
•What is Kristyna’s relationship with the butcher?
•What is Kristyna’s relationship with the student?
•What is Kristyna’s medical condition?
•How to overcome misery?
•Who is the narrator?
•Who is Voltaire?
•What happens at the poets event?
•What was Petrarch story?
•What compromises are being made in the story?The Angels (Part Six)
•Who is Tamina?
•How did Tamina change?
•Where did Tamina go?
•Who are the Squirrels?
•How did Tamina interact with the children?
•What happened when Tamina helped the children with the games?
•What is the outcome of memory on a person?The Border (Part Seven)
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•To whom would you suggest the book?
•Is there an appropriate behavior for a specific age?
•Who is Barbara?
•Who are the Clevis’s family?
•Who is Jan?
•How is culture changing?Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.
4 attendees
Past events
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