50 Shades of Hemingway

“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...

“I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.”     ― David James Duncan, The Brothers K January  Cannery Row by John Steinbeck February  The Brothers K by David James Duncan March Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann April Elephant Company by Vickie Croke May Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson June The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner July Lincoln in the Bardo by George Sanders August Ordinary Grace by Kent Krueger September  The Gatekeepers by Chris Whipple October  Sons and Soldiers by Bruce Henderson November  American Radical by Tamer Elnoury Other Recommended Reads: 1. The Ice People (sci-fi) by Rene Barjavel 2. Gringos by Charles Portis 3. Middlemarch by George Eliot 4. News of the World by Paulette Jiles 5. Forest Dark by Nicole Krausse 6. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 7. Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 8. Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull 9. Th...