MNA Online Book Club — 1984 by George Orwell

Join us online Sunday August 10th at 2 p.m. to discuss 1984 by George Orwell. We will include Farhenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in our discussion, but since not everyone will have time to read both books our main focus is 1984.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

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Tentative future books are:
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physicists Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
The Wisdom of Plagues by Donald McNeil
The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long
Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide by Keith Payne

If you are interested in any of these titles, or have other book suggestions, please message me or leave a comment below.