Humanist Freethought Discussions
take place every Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.,
at the home of Flora & Hilton Brown in Mountain View.
Click HERE or phone 650-941-3146 for directions.
Strictly speaking, this is not a "book group," since we devote the first Wed of each month
to discussion of recent news events, and on the other evenings,
discussions tend to be wide-ranging, centered about, but not exclusively about, the chosen book.
The word "group" is often used but does not imply that you have to join formally in any sense.
Just show up; the more the merrier (up to the house’s capacity).
| (V) means a vote for the next book will occur; nomination list is temporarily frozen for the week preceding. | ||||
| Date | Chapters (or Topic) | Book | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec-Feb | chapters | pages | ttl* |
The Warmth
of Other Suns The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
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| Dec 14 | Notes on Methodology | 539-543 | 5 | |
| Forefathers-Starling | 1- 71 | 71 | ||
| Dec 21 | Foster-(Awakening) | 72-148 top | 76 | |
| Dec 28 | you are invited to come earlier than usual,to participate in special holiday treats. | |||
| (Awakening)-Appointed | 148-204 | 57 | ||
| Jan 4 | recent news | |||
| Jan 11 | Crossing-Divisions | 205-284 | 80 | |
| Jan 18 | Winds-River | 285-363 | 79 | |
| Jan 25 | Prodigals-Fullness | 364-432 | 69 | |
| Feb 1 | recent news | |||
| Feb 8 | Aftermath-Winter | 433-515 | 83 | |
| Feb 15 | Emancipation-Afterword | 516-545 | 30 | |
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* Many of the books we read have extensive notes for each chapter, appendices, and bibliography,
which are not counted in the totals (in columns 2-4), but significantly add to the pages covered.
In the case of Warmth, 'Methodology' is duplicate-counted, in both Dec 14 and Feb 15. Blank pages are usually counted in the page tabulations as if meaningful. (It’s easier.) | ||||
- list of books nominated for future reading,
with brief descriptions and links to Amazon data - Link to Amazon (no specific book)
- our customs on book nominations & voting
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Real Enemies by Kathryn S Olmsted Authentic Happiness by Martin E P Seligman Third World America by Arianna Huffington |
The New Chinese Empire by Ross Terrill The Grand Design by S Hawking & L Mlodinow Nudge by R H Thaler & C Sunstein |
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Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris Heart of Dryness by James G Workman Godless by Dan Barker Cornered by Barry C Lynn The Crime of Reason by Robert B Laughlin The Tangled Wing by Melvin Konner Out of the Cage by Burt & Marge Liebert Unscientific America by C Mooney & S Kirshenbaum Religulous (video) by Bill Maher Invisible History by P Fitzgerald & E Gould The Family by Jeff Sharlett Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath Letting Go of God (video) by Julia Sweeney The Structure of Scientific Revolutionsby Thomas S Kuhn |
The Mind of the Market by Michael Shermer Collapse by Jared Diamond Black Swan by Nassim Taleb Common Wealth by Jeffrey D Sachs Earth: The Sequel by F Krupp & M Horn The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil The GOD Delusion by Richard Dawkins All Rise by Robert W Fuller The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins The Power of Myth (Joseph Campbell) The Assault on Reason by Al Gore God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens Azim's Bardo by Azim Khamisa Snow by Orhan Pamuk |
Religion Is Not About God by Loyal Rue On the Gods and Other Essays by Robert G Ingersoll Whose Freedom? by George Lakoff Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky The Singing Neanderthals by Steven Mithen Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett Natural Atheism by David Eller The End of Faith by Sam Harris The Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Boton Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq A History of God by Karen Armstrong Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby |