Free Thinkers Book Group

Join FROG, the Free thinkers Reading Opportunity Group, for the Saturday May 9 book group meeting from 2-3:30 PM.

In May we'll be discussing The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.

Adapted from Goodreads:
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.

She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.
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This book group is sponsored by the Jefferson Humanists (Find Friends. Share Ideas. Do Good.) It is free and open to the public. To learn more about us, see jeffersonhumanists.org. You can also find our reading list for the entire year there.

The Humanists provide snacks, bring your own beverage of choice. Please RSVP to this Meetup so I know how many chairs to set out!

Upcoming Book Group Meetings:
Saturday June 13 - Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Saturday July 11 - The Mountain in the Sea by Raye Nayle