Rebecca Weekly

This month’s book club read was Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat, a book that asks whether happiness can be approached like an engineering problem: identify the inputs, understand the system, and develop a methodology for producing a better outcome.

For August we read James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.

For July, we decided to read a book that was recommended by folks in our book club at least 3 years ago, but which the group finally had the appetite to tackle.

In June our book club tackled Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson, and it turned into one of those conversations where the book itself became almost secondary to the stories and experiences it inspired us to share.

For May book club we tackled The Upswing, a sweeping look at the past 125 years of American history and an ambitious argument that societies move in cycles—from extreme individualism (“I”), to collective purpose (“We”), and back again.

For April’s book club session we read Nancy Kress’s Beggars in Spain.

For March’s book club we read Aaron Sorkin’s 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History–and How It Shattered a Nation.

For February’s book club session we read Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller.

January’s read, Everything Is Tuberculosis, landed with the kind of narrative force that feels both investigative and deeply human.What Everything Is Tuberculosis does so well is invite us in gently through the author’s first person story, and then slowly…

Rounding out the year, for our final book club session we read Apple in China.

For October’s book club session we read Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty.