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In case you missed the meeting last night, here's a list of some of the books, quotes, and podcasts that we discussed.
Enjoy! :)
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Hunger Moon
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Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, attempting to shift their trajectories: to cease wrapping up heart's desire in a pink bubble by launching it into the universe. Some turn to ESP, some to a belief in ghosts, some to the future caught inside a glass bottle, each character taking the hackneyed adage "Follow Your Bliss" too literally to blissfully follow their own storyline.
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Owls in the Family
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Farley Mowat's funniest book tells the adventures of Wol and Weeps, two owls who shape up a whole neighbourhood, turn a house topsy-turvy, and outsmart Mutt, the dog hero of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Wol brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the postman, and the French teacher. Weeps is a comical bird, afraid of everything except Mutt, and he never does learn how to fly. Here is the heartwarming story of how a boy named Billy finds Wol and Weeps and unwittingly adds two new members to the family.
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Rendezvous with Rama
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At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits — just behind a Raman airlock door.
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Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon
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Stormfall is a dragon born with a coat the color of a starry night. When a storm strikes his island aerie, he is carried on hurricane winds into the complicated and sometimes cruel world of men. There, his journey leads him closer and closer to a remarkable destiny. But war is coming to the land of Remus and with it, a crossroads for the Night Dragon and the young soul-boy he allows on his back. How far is Stormfall willing to go in a war that is not his own?
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
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Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
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Tim Ferriss, the New York Times best-selling author, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book — a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life.
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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New York Times reporter Jennifer 8 Lee, traces the history of the Chinese-American experience through the lens of the food. Lee exposes the indentured servitude of illegal immigrant chefs, investigates the relationship between Jews and Chinese food, and weaves a personal narrative about her own relationship with Chinese food. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles speaks to the immigrant experience as a whole and the way it has shaped our country.
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
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In Sicily, it is said that every story begins with a marriage or a death—in Tembi Locke’s case, it is both. Her story is about loss, but it’s really about love found. Her story is about travel, but it’s really about finding a home. It is about food, but it’s really about chasing flavor as an act of remembrance. From Scratch is for anyone who has dared to reach for big love, fought for what mattered most, and needed a powerful reminder that life is…delicious.
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Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life
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Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights, and methodology she and her faculty developed over 15 years at their famously successful charter schools in California and Washington, which she is now introducing to public school systems across the country.
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Widowed in a Heartbeat: A journey of grief and survival
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Are you widowed? Do you often feel that your life now is more difficult, chaotic, pointless? Are you struggling to move along?
You are not alone. In spite of your difficulties, there are people who understand. This raw and honest book describes the journey of one widow through grief and survival.
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
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In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average people farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history.
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Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong
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In twenty short, myth-busting chapters, Tim Spector reveals why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong. He reveals the scandalous lack of good scientific evidence for many medical and government food recommendations, and how the food industry holds sway over these policies. These are urgent issues that matter not just for our health as individuals but for the future of the planet.
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Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
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Reading Notes To Myself is one of those rare experiences that comes only once in a great while. The editor who discovered the book said, "When I first read Prather's manuscript it was late at night and I was tired, but by the time I finished it, I felt rested and alive. Since then I've reread it many times and it says even more to me now." The book serves as a beginning for the reader's exploration of his or her own life and as a treasury of thoughtful and insightful reminders.
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The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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Explaining man's role in the universe as a unique expression of the total universe, and interdependent on it, Alan Watts offers a new understanding of personal identity. It reveals the mystery of existence, presenting an alternative to the feelings of alienation that is prevalent in Western society, and a vision of how we can come to understand the cosmic self that is within every living thing.
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"We live on the surface. We're like the Platte River: a mile wide and an inch deep. I always say, if you want to be a billionaire, invent something that will allow people to indulge in their own Resistance. Somebody did invent it. It's called the Internet. Social Media. That wonderland where we can flit from one superficial jerkoff distraction to another, always remaining on the surface, never going deeper than an inch. Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite."
-Steven Pressfield
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“The more resistance you have to something, the more you need to do it.”
-John Joseph
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"Always do what you fear the most, courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.”
-Erica Jong
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History Hit
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History! The most exciting and important things that have ever happened on the planet! Featuring reports from the weird and wonderful places around the world where history has been made and interviews with some of the best historians writing today.
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Old Gods of Appalachia
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Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror-anthology podcast set in the shadows of an Alternate Appalachia, a place where digging too deep into the mines was just the first mistake.
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Mission to Zyxx
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An improvised science fiction sitcom following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote and chaotic Zyxx Quadrant… better known as the "ass-end of space."
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Welcome to Night Vale
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Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on in no time. Or, go right to Episode 1 if you wanna binge-listen.
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A Way with Words
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A Way with Words is a fun and funny radio show and podcast about language. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett talk with callers from around the world about linguistics, slang, new words, jokes, riddles, word games, grammar, old sayings, word origins, regional dialects, family expressions, books, literature, folklore, and speaking and writing well.
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That's all, folks!
Hakuna Matata,
May the Force Be With You,
To Infinity and Beyond,
Live Long and Prosper,
May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor,
Roll Credits,
Love,
Trace & Caitlyn
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