BOOKS
Farsighted - Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson
This was read for book club in July. Join to get all the discussion on the book. While Johnson has some good ideas we can put into practice, he takes far too long telling us stories to get them
The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
While there are many great ideas to pique your interest, I couldn’t help but think that I needed to read all the other philosophy the author cites to fully make sense of his arguments. This is clearl
The Other Valley - Scott Alexander Howard
Scott Alexander Howard
The story starts off slow and a bit sad as we follow 16-year-old Odile who is a lonely girl after her only friend moved to a different part of town. Her life starts to look up as she is befriended by
Clear Thinking - Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish, of Farnham Street fame, brings us a book that is intended to help us think clearly. The first half is all about defining the enemies of clear thinking and the second is about putting c
Limit of Vision - Linda Nagata
Linda Nagata
This book explores the evolution of human-kind as the combine with LOV's, artificial brains designed by humans, in what at times appears to be a race to "beat" AI and at times feels like a slapped to
Wildwood Imperium - Colin Meloy
Colin Meloy
This is the third book in the Wildwood Chronicles and we pickup shortly after the events of the third book where Prue and the residents of Wildwood banded together to thwart the plans of the former Q
The Siren's Call - Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
The Siren's Call looks at how the attention economy monopolizes our attention in ways that we don't want. We don't really want to doom scroll, but it's hard to fight the generated content that gets p
Making it So - Patrick Steward
Patrick Stewart
This was a wonderful look back at the career of Patrick Stewart. I love that he was comfortable enough to share many embarrassing stories, and reflect on how uptight he was in the beginning of his ca
Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros
This book is much slower for the first 2/3rds than the first two are. The world now knows about the real fight against Venin, and has some type of truce between formerly warring nations to push back
Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame continues from the cliff hanger in Fourth Wing, with Violet coming to grips that her brother is in fact alive and the love of her life is leading a revolution because society has been dece