Books-N-Wine Book Club

From the list "https://www.shortform.com/best-books/genre/best-short-books-of-all-time"

Description from this list:
Man's Search for Meaning has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 psychiatrist Viktor Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the stories of his many patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory—known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")—holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. In the decades since its first publication in 1959, Man's Search for Meaning has become a classic, with more than twelve million copies in print around the world. A 1991 Library of Congress survey that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. At once a memoir, a meditation, a treatise, and a history, it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.

Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Symphony-of-Secrets/dp/B0B9T5WWVY.

Meeting is on October 17, 2018.

Next book club will be a fun night out at Tomato Head in West Knoxville at 7:30 on Sept 21. We are reading The Dark Is Rising.

This month's book was recommended by Jen.

Next club meeting is set for August 20th.

It is an historical novel set in the year 1666 in a village in England affected by the plague.

This month's book was recommended by Leslie.

It is written by Charles Williams who was one of the Inklings.

Next meeting is June 25th.

Quoting from Amazon description:

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time,

A Brief History of Vice

explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating.

Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers

into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our

civilization.

Cracked

editor Robert Evans brings his signature

dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent

ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who

scored a major victory for women’s rights to the beer that helped

create—and destroy—South America's first empire.

The successor to "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman," this book is more serious in tone.  It was published after Feynman's death in 1988.  (

Wikipedia

biography of Feynman.)  We chose this book because we wanted another science book to discuss after Brief History.  This year, May 11th, marked the 100th birthday of Feynman.

10 Quotes from Feynman

on his 100th Birthday.

With the passing of Professor Hawking in March 2018, we read the revised version of his popular text "A Brief History of Time."  The text is approachable and can be followed by the interested layperson.  "You feel smarter after reading it." It is a personal introduction to the mysteries of the Universe from one of the great physicists.

This also resulted in a lively, 2.5 hour discussion.

Auto-biographical book about Hemingway's time in Paris, France in the 1920s.  He wrote it late in his life when he discovered a trunk he'd put into storage during his time in France.  It tells about the time of his first marriage.  It was also during this time that Hemingway developed his brief style of writing.  He became best friends with F. Scott Fitzgerald at this time.

We had a lively discussion about this book for 2.5 hours.