At our November '24 meeting we each picked a book we had read and introduced it to the group. These were the offerings:
Irene - THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM by Marie Benedict. Fictional telling of Hedy Lamar's life.
Margaret - AWE: THE NEW SCIENCE OF EVERYDAY WONDER AND HOW IT CAN TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE by Dacher Keltner. What is the emotion of awe and how does it transform our brains and bodies (originally recommended by Sharan).
Roberta - MOUNTAINS OF THE MIND: A HISTORY OF FASCINATION by Robert Macfarlane. This considers why people are drawn to mountains despite their obvious dangers, and examines the powerful, and sometimes fatal, hold that mountains can come to have over the imagination.
Jane - NO TIME LIKE THE FUTURE: AN OPTIMIST CONSIDERS MORTALITY by Michael J. Fox. Fourth in a line of memoirs.
Donna - THE GREAT DIVIDE by Cristina Henriquez. A Michener-esque book about the making of the Panama Canal.
Jan - WHAT WE BURIED by Robert Rotenberg. A Toronto homicide detective investigates links between the Nazis in Italy and his brother's death.
Jane (#2) - IN MY TIME OF DYING by Sebastian Junger. This examines the often subtle connections between life, death, and the after-life.
All were recommended.
