Book Club
This group, which meets here once a month, on the last Saturday of the month at 10 AM, is graciously sponsored by the University Unitarian Universalist Society. EVERYONE is invited! We choose a book, or maybe more than one book on the same topic, a few months in advance. Participants may buy the book, get it from the library, or simply be interested in the topic. Many of the month's selection(s) will have information on this site with reviews, reader comments, and perhaps links to more information. (Send your suggestions for books and/or topics to feature in the months ahead to the Book Club c/o Steve Hall.)
September Book
Saturday September 25, 10am
The Shallows
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr understands the overwhelming changes we're all experiencing due to the new electronic media and the omnipresent Internet.
His explosive Atlantic cover story "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" charged that the ever-increasing amount of time we spend online is
eroding our capacity to read carefully and think critically.
This set off the raging national debate that is the basis of "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" -
a probing exploration of exactly how the Internet is rewiring our synapses and dangerously upending our cultural priorities.
October Book
Saturday October 23, 10am
Dismantling the Empire
America's Last Best Hope
by Chalmers Johnson
The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate
will . . . condemn the U.S. to . . . imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the
former Soviet Union.
