FEBRUARY 2023
LOVE: A HISTORY BY SIMON MAY
Love – unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting – is worshipped today as the West’s only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage.
Join us via Zoom: Thursday Feb 9 and 23 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPBookClub
january 2023: Laughing with the Trickster by Tomson Highway
Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death.
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Thursday Jan 12 and again Thursday Jan 26 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPBookClub
NOVEMBER 2022: WARMTH: COMING OF AGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD BY DANIEL SHERRELL
Sherrell lays bare how the climate crisis is transforming our relationships to time, to hope, and to each other. At once a memoir, a love letter, and an electric work of criticism, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not?OCTOBER 2022: BRAVING THE WILDERNESS
Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging.Join us via Zoom on Thu, Oct 13 at 2pm and again on Thu, Oct 27 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPBookClub
SEPTEMBER 2022: WATER IS… THE MEANING OF WATER BY NINA MUNTEANU
Part history, part science, and part philosophy and spirituality, “Water Is…” combines personal journey with scientific discovery that explores water’s many identities and ultimately our own.
Thursday September 8 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub1
Thursday September 22 at 2pm: https://tinyurl.com/UFPbookclub2