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The Purple Penguins Book Club

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A book club that meets on the third Sunday each month.

Upcoming book discussions

Sunday, April 20
Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 159 pages

Sunday, May 18
Percival Everett: James, 302 pages

Sunday June 15
Samantha Harvey: Orbital, 207 pages

Sunday, July 20
Richard Powers: The Overstory 502 pages

Sunday, August 17
Andy Weir: The Egg (short stories)
The Egg is 2009, and out of print - so, hard to get. We can discuss how to deal with this.

We meet the third Sunday of each month.
Time Netherlands: 7pm**, Detroit: 2pm, Chicago: 1pm, Pacific: 11am

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In no particular order, here are books from our voting process which had five or fewer likes:

Abraham Verghese: Cutting for Stone or The Covenant of Water (both historical fiction)
Cixin Liu: Hold up the Sky
Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen
Barbara Kingsolver: Demon Copperhead
Scot Thomas eastham: The biotech timebomb
Emily St John Mandel: Station Eleven
Helene Wecker: The Golem and the Jinni
Tara Westover: educated
Neal Stephenson: Polostan
Keith Houston: Shady Characters (non fiction)
Scott Thomas Eastham: the radix (philosophy)
Scott Thomas Eastham: the biotech timebomb
Raimon panikkar: cultural disarmament
Raimon Panikkar: dwelling place for wisdom
Amanda Gefter: trespassing on Einsteins Lawn
Martin Heidegger: Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Studies in Continental Thought)
Peter Raine: who guards the guardians
Miriam lancewood: wild at heart
Miriam lancewood: woman in the wilderness
Christopher McDougall: Born to Run (memoir)

December 2024
Raymond Carver: Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes
Lauren Groff: The Midnight Zone

January 2025
The Hermit's Story, by Rick Bass
The Last Thing We Need, by Claire Vaye Watkins

February 2025
The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
The Fix by Percival Everett

March 2025
Ursula K Le Guin: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Bring friends and guests: they are welcome and appreciated.