MAY 2022: TALKING TO STRANGERS: WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE DON’T KNOW BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
Gladwell argues that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.
Thursday May 12 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub1
Thursday May 26 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub2
April 2022 | Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Age Bias and How to End It by Tracey Gendron
Why do we still tolerate stereotypes and discrimination based on age?This bold account of the history and present-day realities of ageism by a nationally recognized gerontologist and speaker uncovers ageism’s roots, impact, and how each of us can create a new reality of elderhood.
Thursday April 28 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub2
March 2022 | The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne
In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically; it also has profound consequences for how we think, how we respond to stress, how our immune systems function, and even how we view moral concepts such as justice and fairness.Thursday March 24 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub2
February 2022 | Being Seen: THE POWER OF REST AND RETREAT IN DIFFICULT TIMES, by ELSA SJUNNESON
A Deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history of the Deafblind experience, Being Seen explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact, and the damage it does to us all.
Thursday February 10 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub1
Thursday February 24 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub2
JANUARY 2022: KATHERINE MAY’S WINTERING: THE POWER OF REST AND RETREAT IN DIFFICULT TIMES
A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the
natural world, May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season.
Thursday January 13 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub1
Thursday January 27 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub2