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Date(s) - 11/14/2022
6:30 am - 8:15 am
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Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817)
Heroine Anne Elliot is noteworthy among Austen’s characters for her relative maturity. This novel was Austen’s last completed work, and is accepted as showing a refinement of literary conception in her then-unique style.
Not into classic ladies’ novels? See which science book we are reading next month below:
We meet on the 2nd Monday of each month at 6:30pm in UUFSD’s Palmer Library.
Send questions or comments to bookclub@uufsd.org or call/text Cathy Leach-Phillips at 650 224-1974.
Not into classic ladies’ novels? See the science book we are reading next month:
December 12:
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake (2020)
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.
In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the “Wood Wide Web,” to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.
Posted by Cathy Leach-Phillips