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Books are made better by the conversations that happen about them.
Reading is isolating, unless you talk about the book. Then reading becomes a social experience within a community.
If you liked or did not like a book, and want to hear different thoughts on the book, this is a book club for you.
Want to create a habit of reading? The book club's community will support your drive.
Not sure about what you get out of books, or how to think about books, or how to apply the book's topics? Join the discussions and put your knowledge to the test.
This club primarily hosts non-fiction book club event, and some fiction. The value of the club comes from the discussions, and listening to everyone's views about the book. Everyone's different views. There will be agreement, but disagreement is permitted and encouraged. Everyone's diverse backgrounds will cause everyone to have different approaches to the topic which will elucidate arguments for and against the topic. What matters is how you engage with the information learned in the book and everyone's ideas. To seek out and understand the complexity of the topic.
A Note On Disagreement: Conflict is inevitable. Disagreement is inevitable. People come from different backgrounds, which causes them to interpret information differently. Sparking conflict and disagreement. Although conflict and disagreement cannot be avoided, each individual can choose how they respond to them. Everyone can choose how to fight. Can choose how to disagree. Everyone can make conflict and disagreement productive. Enabling everyone to become better. Disagreement causes a search for more information, for the reasons why others think differently. Which makes everyone more informed, better able to analyze the information. Knowing how to disagreement is a skill that can learned through practice.
There are conditions that are needed to facilitate an honest discussion about the different views everyone has, community guidelines. 1) To enable everyone be heard, everyone is able to speak. Priority goes to those who spoke less. 2) It is acceptable for everyone to err, and disagree. By finding out different information can any individual choose to error correct. For more community guidelines and the event's discussion, see Community Guidelines (Click Here).
The list of books are mostly member suggestions. Every cycle members suggest books, and then poll which books they wish to read. Books are selected for poll rank, and topic diversity. For for details about How The Book List Gets Made, Click Here. Page contains the reasons why books are listed, and things to consider when suggesting books.
Club Maintenance:
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My blog for book reviews: https://www.inquiryreviews.com/p/about-inquiry.html
Basic Statistics:
Past Events = 140
Book Club Events = 133
Author Appearance = 7
Book Shop Visits = 6
Related Events = 1
Attendance: Average = 11, Standard Deviation = 6
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- The Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams | Book ClubLink visible for attendees
Full Title: The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
Suggested by: Steven S
Pages to read: 369
ISBN: 9781108425049 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9781108776035 (Edition Eugene is using)Eugene's review of the book (Blog Link, Click Here)
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Forthcoming Similar Events:
1 - Self-Help - 11/30/2024 = A Guide to the Good Life: Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
2 - Status/Sociology - 12/14/2024 = The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr
3 - Sex Differences - 02/01/2024 = The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
4 - Sociology - 02/22/2025 = Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
5 - Sex Differences - 03/22/2025 = Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen JoyceContribute:
The club has costs. If you appreciated the event, support the club. Contribute via:- Zelle, PayPal, or Venmo. Contribute to eugenefrominquiry@gmail.com.
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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is evolution? What is evolution about and what is evolution not about?
•What is evolutionary psychology?
•What does natural selection work on?
•Are adaptations beneficial to the species?
•Are adaptations beneficial to the individual?
•What is inclusive fitness?
•Is there intelligent designed?
•Can a society avoid selfish members?
•Why are there altruistic groups?
•What is the different between selection operating between individuals in a group, and selection operating between groups within a larger population?
•How did cooperation evolve?
•Are all genes useful?
•What would an alien think of humans?
•What are intercourse differences?
•Is evolution an accepted idea?
•What prevents people from understanding evolution?
•What is conditioned taste aversion?
•What is the different between proximate and ultimate explanations?
•Does every action an organism take meant to propagate genes?
•What is evolutionary mismatch?
•What are typical mammalian sex differences?
•Are humans different in their sex differences than other mammals?
•What is inbreeding depression?
•What are eusocial species?
•Why is self-interest part of the culture?
•When to be altruistic?
•How did evolution of math effect how people think?
•What is the Myth of the Heroic Inventor?
•How does innovation occur?
•Why did monogamous norms evolve?
•How is the birth rate effected by evolution?
•How do cultures evolve?
•How do genes and culture effect each other?
•Is behavior that was developed through evolution inevitable?Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.
- Circe by Madeline Miller | Book Club FictionLink visible for attendees
Pages to read: 335
Suggested by: Extra
ISBN: 9780316556330 (Originally listed, & Edition Eugene is using)Eugene's review of the book (Blog Link, Click Here)
Community Guidelines (Meetup Link, Click Here)
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Forthcoming Similar Events:
1 - Fiction - 11/16/2024 = The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
2 - Status - 12/14/2024 = The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr
3 - Power Asymmetry - 12/28/2024 = Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4 - Power Asymmetry - 02/01/2025 = The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
5 - Power Asymmetry - 02/22/2025 = Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas SowellContribute:
The club has costs. If you appreciate the event, support the club. Contribute via:- Zelle, PayPal, or Venmo. Contribute to eugenefrominquiry@gmail.com.
- GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/adabd41c
While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What are nymphs?
•What was Helios’s presumed natural order?
•How did Helios treat astronomers?
•What do gods love?
•What did the gods think of mortals?
•What did Circe think of humans?
•Who is Circe?
•What did Circe’s relatives think of Circe?
•How can Circe’s childhood be described?
•Why did Circe take Aeëtes?
•What did Prometheus do and what was the outcome?
•What did Circe think of Prometheus?
•How does Titans and Olympians treat each other?
•What is a Fury?
•Can gods be hurt?
•Who is Daedalus?
•What is the great chain of fear?
•How did Glaucos react to Circe?
•What became of Glaucos?
•What happened to Glaucos when Glaucos gained power?
•Who is Tethys and what did Circe ask of Tethys?
•How did Circe discover witchcraft?
•How did Circe use power initially? How did Circe’s use of power change?
•Why is Scylla? What does Scylla become?
•How is witchcraft revealed to the gods?
•Who are the original witches and magicians?
•How does sorcery/witchcraft work?
•What is Circe’s specialty in witchcraft?
•What is Circe’s punishment for witchcraft?
•How did Circe react to being on the island of Aiaia?
•Who does Circe summon?
•Who is Hermes?
•How did Cicre and Hermes treat each other?
•Who can enter and leave the island of Aiaia?
•Who provides better offerings to the gods?
•What is moly?
•What happened to Pasiphaë?
•How did the minotaur came to be?
•What does Pasiphaë have on Daedalus?
•What did Daedalus give to Circe?
•How do gods prove their worth?
•How do mortals gain fame?
•What are children worth?
•What happened to Ariadne?
•Who is Medea and what happened to Medea?
•What did Jason do?
•How does Circe feel being on the island of Aiaia? How does Circe deal with the loneliness and company?
•Why do gods send their daughters to Aiaia?
•How did Odysseus and Circe treat each other?
•How did Athena treat Odysseus?
•What happened during the Trojan War?
•How did Apollo share the prophecy?
•Who did not want Circe child born?
•How did Circe deal with Athena when Telegonus was born?
•What stories did Circe tell Telegonus of Odysseus?
•What does Telegonus want to do?
•How does Circe find a way to protect Telegonus and from what?
•Who is the Great lord of the deep?
•What is Trygon’s power?
•What happened when Odysseus returned to Ithica?
•Why does Telemachus and Penelope go to Aiaia?
•What is the option Athena gives to Telemachus? What is the outcome of the offer?
•How does Circe end the exile?
•What was the outcome of the confrontation between Circe and Scylla after exile’s end?
•What choice does Circe make after exile?Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.
- Chip War: The Fight for World's Critical Technology by Chris Miller | Book ClubLink visible for attendees
Full Title: Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Suggested by: Lily
Pages to read: 357
ISBN: 9781982172008 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9781982172022 (Edition Eugene is using)Eugene's review of the book (Blog Link, Click Here)
Community Guidelines (Meetup Link, Click Here)
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Forthcoming Similar Events:
1 - US History - 12/07/2024 = A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
2 - Government & Entrepreneurship - 12/21/2024 - The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato
3 - Geopolitics - 01/04/2025 = Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
4 - US History - 01/18/2025 = ow America Works... and Why it Doesn't by Cooper
5 - Resources that make Tech Possible - 01/15/2025 = Cobalt Red: Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth KaraContribute:
The club has costs. If you appreciated the event, support the club. Contribute via:- Zelle, PayPal, or Venmo. Contribute to eugenefrominquiry@gmail.com.
- GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/adabd41c
While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What are integrated circuits known as chips?
•What is the chip manufacturing supply chain?
•How did the military effect chip development?
•Why are chips needed in military application?
•Why pays for the R&D efforts?
•How does Silicon Valley effect chip production?
•Why is chip production expensive?
•What risks are posed by bankrupt tech firms?
•What is the Mead-Conway Revolution?
•How did Charlie Sporck effect chip production?
•How did chips come to be?
•What was the USSR strategy with chips?
•What was China’s strategy with chips?
•What happened to Huawei?
•Why did America enable Japan’s technological capacity?
•Why did Taiwan want to be a chip manufacturer?
•What is the role of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)?
•How did Morris Chang transform TSMC?
•Did Japan have unfair competition?
•What was the role of spies?
•How did Charlie Sporck effect chip manufacturing?
•What was the effect of unions on chip production?
•What did the company Fairchild do?
•What happened to GCA?
•Why use x86 architecture?
•What are the classic physics problems of making chips smaller?
•How does Intel effect U.S. policy?
•How does do chips effect A.I.?
•What is beamforming?
•What decision did Intel make about phones?Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride | Book ClubLink visible for attendees
Suggested by: Miriam K.
Pages to read: 309
ISBN: 9780593743775 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780593422960 (Edition Eugene is using)Eugene's review of the book (Blog Link, Click Here)
Community Guidelines (Meetup Link, Click Here)
All Upcoming event (Meetup Link, Click Here)
Forthcoming Similar Events:
1 - US History - 12/07/2024 = A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
2 - Status - 12/14/2024 = The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr
3 - Entrepreneurship - 12/21/2024 = The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato
4 - Power Asymmetry - 12/28/2024 = Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
5 - US History - 01/18/2025 = How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by CooperContribute:
The club has costs. If you appreciated the event, support the club. Contribute via:- Zelle, PayPal, or Venmo. Contribute to eugenefrominquiry@gmail.com.
- GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/adabd41c
While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•Whose body was found in the introduction? What happened to them?
•What happened to Moshe flyers for an concert with Katz?
•Who is Moshe?
•Who is Chona?
•How did Moshe and Chona meet?
•Why keep and stay at the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store?
•How did Moshe change the community? How did the community respond to the change?
•How did Chona behave and effect other people?
•How did Chona’s disability effect Chona?
•How did Chona effect the community?
•What is the significance of 12?
•Who is Nate Timblin?
•What is Nate’s history?
•Who is Addie?
•Who is Dodo?
•How did Dodo become deaf?
•Who is Malachi?
•How is Malachi’s bread?
•What did Moshe do with Malachi’s bread?
•What does Malachi think of America?
•Who is the greatest dancer?
•Who received the pendant that had the inscription “Home of the Greatest Dancer in the World”?
•Why does the government want Dodo? How does Nate handle the situation?
•Who is spreading the location of Dodo?
•How does Chona treat Dodo?
•How was Dodo found?
•Who is Bernice?
•What is Chona’s history with Bernice?
•Who is Patty Millison, and why is Patty known as Newspaper, as Paper?
•Who is Doc?
•What is Doc’s history with Chona?
•What group is Doc part of?
•What does Doc think is happening to America?
•Who is Fatty?
•Who is Reverend Spriggs?
•Who is Big Soap?
•Who is Pia?
•Who is Miggy Fludd?
•Who is Son of Man?
•Who is Plitzka?
•What is Plitzka’s role with water?
•What does Doc think of Plitzka?
•How was the shul built?
•How does the shul get water?
•What is the purpose of marbles?
•Who are the Skrup brothers?
•Who is Monkey Pants?
•How did Dodo and Monkey Pants communicate?
•What is the purpose of Pennhurst State Hospital?
•What claims did Doc make about Dodo after the event at the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store?
•What is the plan to get Dodo out of Pennhurst?Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.