Humanist Book Group

Join the Humanist Book Group from 2-3:30 PM for our Saturday October 10 meeting.

In October we'll be discussing Orbital by Samantha Harvey.

Adapted from Goodreads:
Winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of two women and four men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts — from the U.S., Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude.
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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, or email books@jeffersonhumanists, so I know how many chairs to set out!

Upcoming Book Group Meetings:
November 14 - Topic - Best books You Read in the Past Year - attendees share good books they have read in the past year
December 12 - Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb