“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.” ― Paul Kalanithi Black Flags by Joby Warrick Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt The Good Lord Bird by James McBride The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Vintage Munro by Alice Munro Circling the Sun: A Novel by Paula McLain The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Jimmy Bluefeather by Kim Heacox When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Have you read any of these books? Please share your impressions!
2017 brought a sad change to our group. Dear friend and longtime member, Carma Cornell, passed away much too soon. We continue to miss her wit, kindness, frankness, and intellect. Carma was one of a kind. The following is from the book she had selected for the year: “Change is the nature of nature. For example, stars expand as they grow older. They grow from a star, to a red super-giant, to a supernova. When a massive star explodes at the end of its life, the explosion dispenses different elements-helium, carbon, oxygen, iron, nickel-across the universe, scattering stardust. That stardust now makes up the planets, including ours.” ― Michelle Cuevas , Beyond the Laughing Sky Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow "Alexander Hamilton was one of the most brilliant men of his brilliant time, and one of the most fascinating figures in all of American history. His rocketing life-story is utterly amazing. His importance to the founding of the new nation, and thus to the...