Hello Internet Friends!

We are having another members meet up and it will be the first of 2021!!

Bring some great book ideas for the next little while .

Come back later to find out which author we will be calling and when.

The link to the zoom call will be available on the day of the meeting

Hello Internet Friends!

We are having another members meet up! Just like last time, we will discuss books we are currently reading and what we have learned this past month!

We will also be having another a new author discussions this month!

Come back later to find out which author we will be calling and when.

The link to the zoom call will be available on the day of the meeting

We are connecting with the Quarantine book club to present:

Ainissa Ramirez

The Alchemy of Us

A bit about the author:

“Ainissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and sought-after public speaker and science communicator. A Brown and Stanford graduate, she has worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs and held academic positions at Yale University and MIT. She has written for Time, Scientific American, the American Scientist, and Forbes, and makes regular appearances on PBS's SciTech Now.”

For those not familiar with the book, here's a short description: 

“In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us.

In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes, among other things, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway's writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid's cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies.

Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but also how those materials shaped culture, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking, bias, and convention. Doing so, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it's splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR.”

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Hello Internet Friends!

We are having another members meet up! Just like last time, we will discuss books we are currently reading and what we have learned this past month!

We will also be reintroducing a new author discussions this month!

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Hello Internet Friends!

We will be having a panel discussion about self care and what that means during this global pandemic. We want you to bring experiences, tips, and news for how you have been able to cope with our changing world views.

Feel no obligation to participate, you are also allowed to just join and listen in.

Cant wait to see all of your beautiful faces! See you then :)

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Hello Internet Friends!

We are having another members meet up! Just like last time, we will discuss books we are currently reading and what we have learned this past month!

As we will discuss in this meeting, we propose that instead of having an author discussion this month, we will be be having our own panel discussion! Join us for an interesting discussion of “Self Care Amidst a Pandemic”.

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We are connecting with the Quarantine book club to present:

Emily Anthes

The Great Indoors

A bit about the author:

“Emily Anthes is an award-winning science journalist and author. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Nature, Slate, Businessweek, Scientific American, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Her previous book, Frankenstein's Cat, was long-listed for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.”

For those not familiar with the book, here's a short description: 

“A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment

Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours? Our productivity, performance, and relationships?

In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. She investigates how room temperature regulates our cognitive performance, how the microbes hiding in our homes influence our immune systems, and how cafeteria design affects what--and how much--we eat.

Along the way, Anthes takes readers into an operating room designed to minimize medical errors, a school designed to boost students' physical fitness, and a prison designed to support inmates' psychological needs. And she previews the homes of the future, from the high-tech houses that could monitor our health to the 3D-printed structures that might allow us to live on the Moon.

The Great Indoors provides a fresh perspective on our most familiar surroundings and a new understanding of the power of architecture and design. It's an argument for thoughtful interventions into the built environment and a story about how to build a better world—one room at a time.”

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Hello Internet Friends!

Welcome back for another members meet up! Just like last time, we will discuss books we are currently reading and what we have learned this past month!

furthermore, we will be prepping for another new author discussions this month!

Check out the events page if you would like to prepare by reading ahead. It is also fine to just join the sessions and hear the author talk about their book!

To Join the meeting, Click on this link!

We are connecting with the Quarantine book club to present:

Arlan Hamilton

It’s About Damn Time

A bit about the author:

“Arlan Hamilton is the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, or LGBTQ. Backstage has now invested more than $5 million in more than one hundred start-up companies led by underrepresented founders. In 2018, Hamilton co-founded Backstage Studio, which launched accelerator programs in Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and London. She is the first non-celebrity Black woman to be featured on the cover of Fast Company.”

For those not familiar with the book, here's a short description: 

“From a black, gay woman who broke into the boys' club of Silicon Valley comes an empowering guide to finding your voice, working your way into any room you want to be in, and achieving your own dreams.

In 2015, Arlan Hamilton was on food stamps and sleeping on the floor of the San Francisco airport, with nothing but an old laptop and a dream of breaking into the venture capital business. She couldn't understand why people starting companies all looked the same (white and male), and she wanted the chance to invest in the ideas and people who didn't conform to this image of how a founder is supposed to look. Hamilton had no contacts or network in Silicon Valley, no background in finance--not even a college degree. What she did have was fierce determination and the will to succeed.

As much as we wish it weren't so, we still live in a world where being underrepresented often means being underestimated. But as someone who makes her living investing in high-potential founders who also happen to be female, LGBTQ, or people of color, Hamilton understands that being undervalued simply means that a big upside exists. Because even if you have to work twice as hard to get to the starting line, she says, once you are on a level playing field, you will sprint ahead.

Despite what society would have you believe, Hamilton argues, a privileged background, an influential network, and a fancy college degree are not prerequisites for success. Here she shares the hard-won wisdom she's picked up on her remarkable journey from food-stamp recipient to venture capitalist, with lessons like "The Best Music Comes from the Worst Breakups," "Let Someone Shorter Stand in Front of You," "The Dangers of Hustle Porn," and "Don't Let Anyone Drink Your Diet Coke." Along the way, she inspires us all to defy other people's expectations and to become the role models we've been looking for.”

Follow this link to sign up for the event!

Hello Internet Friends!

Welcome back for another members meet up! Just like last time, we will discuss books we are currently reading and what we have learned this past month!

furthermore, we will be prepping for another new author discussions this month!

Check out the events page if you would like to prepare by reading ahead. It is also fine to just join the sessions and hear the author talk about their book!

To Join the meeting, Click on this link!

We are connecting with the Quarantine book club to present:

Anna Mehler Paperny

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me

A bit about the author:

“Anna Mehler Paperny is a Toronto-based reporter for Reuters. She’s chased down stories ranging from the opioid crisis to migration, from post-quake Haiti to Guantanamo Bay. She has also been a staff reporter at The Globe and Mail and a reporter-editor for Global News, where she developed globalnews.ca’s award-winning Investigative Data Desk. Her work on Canadian prison deaths won the RTDNA Dan McArthur Award for investigative journalism.”

For those not familiar with the book, here's a short description: 

“An engrossing memoir-meets-investigative report that takes a fresh, frank look at how we treat depression

Depression is a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing and hijacks your life. After a major suicide attempt in her early twenties, Anna Mehler Paperny resolved to put her reporter’s skills to use to get to know her enemy, setting off on a journey to understand her condition, the dizzying array of medical treatments on offer, and a medical profession in search of answers. Charting the way depression wrecks so many lives, she maps competing schools of therapy, pharmacology, cutting-edge medicine, the pill-popping pitfalls of long-term treatment, the glaring unknowns and the institutional shortcomings that both patients and practitioners are up against. She interviews leading medical experts across the US and Canada, from psychiatrists to neurologists, brain-mapping pioneers to family practitioners, and others dabbling in strange hypotheses—and shares compassionate conversations with fellow sufferers.

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me tracks Anna’s quest for knowledge and her desire to get well. Impeccably reported, it is a profoundly compelling story about the human spirit and the myriad ways we treat (and fail to treat) the disease that accounts for more years swallowed up by disability than any other in the world.”

Follow this link to sign up for the event!

Hello Internet Friends!

We are having another members meet up! Just like last time, we will discuss books we are currently reading and what we have learned this past month!

furthermore, we will be prepping for another new author discussions this month!

Check out the events page if you would like to prepare by reading ahead. It is also fine to just join the sessions and hear the author talk about their book!

To Join the meeting, Click on this link!

Hello Internet Friends!

We are having a members meet up to discuss books we are reading and what we have learned this past month!

As discussed at the end of last meeting, we will be preparing for another new author discussions this month!

Check out the events page if you would like to prepare by reading ahead. It is also fine to just join the sessions and hear the author talk about their book!

To Join the meeting, Click on this link!

Hello Internet Friends!

Join us for a zoom conference call where we will discuss what we will be doing as a book club and answer any question you might have .

Cant wait to see you :)

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