Pandemic

[close] I am hoping to create a bit of distraction and positive use of time by creating a book club with everyone willing to join! I thought of calling the group “Pandemic Book Club” or something along those lines as the current situation with distancing and quarantine fueled the idea… But I can’t do it. I want this to be about cultivating some community engagement in the most introvert way possible, reading! I entered pandemic into thesaurus.com and out spat a list where “cosmopolitan” was listed a few down. Investigating synonyms for this, it states, “cultured, metropolitan, and sophisticated”, so, us in a nutshell.

[close] Extra-small bookclub for an extra-large pandemic.

[close] I'm setting up a book club for science. How this will work is I'll give you a list of books, then you all vote on which one you want to read next (instant-runoff style). Then we will have a semi-guided tour through the book, discussing a few chapters per week, along with a monthly-ish meetup in cyberspace to talk about some of the bigger issues. Most of the actual discussion and probably the voting will happen on discord, this interface is not very popular :) To get things started I am just choosing the first two books from ones I've read recently: (1) "The Great Influenza" by John Barry and (2) "Ten Drugs" by Thomas Hager. Please don't worry about hurting my feelings if you aren't interested in reading and discussing science books with me!

[close] Friends, would you care to partake in a learned discussion of current events, the global economy, writing, selling, film, and reading? Then gift us with the honor of your sophisticated opinions, queries and humor on board our trireme of World, Writing and Wealth and sail the seven seas with us!