….to discuss Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Things Are Better Than You Think. This is a best-selling book in which the author explains how media bias, ideological preconceptions and statistical illiteracy makes most people (in rich countries) believe in a gloomy and spectacularly wrong worldview. Former President Obama says: “Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an
This month we’re reading Mrs. Bridge written 50 years ago by Evan S Connell. Mrs. Bridge is a collection of discrete vignettes that chronicle the life of India Bridge, the wife of a prosperous Kansas City attorney and mother of his three children in the 1930s. Mrs. Bridge is a novel that is delicately laced
…schedule. All are welcome to join us in the library on Tuesday, June 26 at 7pm. This is an award-winning book which is reported to be quite thought-provoking. Here’s what one reviewer said about it: “In spare, crystalline prose, Hamid conveys the experience of living in a city under siege with sharp, stabbing immediacy. He
at 7:00pm to discuss Blue Highways by William Least Half Moon. The author describes his solo road trip around America traveling only state highways(no interstates) meeting lots of very kind, interesting people and eating local diner food. We think you will enjoy the skillful writing, the apt descriptions, the colorful characters, and the “philosophizing.” All
