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The Livingston Diversity Book Club seeks to celebrate and educate the community through reading. Join us as we use literature to expand our experiences and discuss the differences that make us distinct. The rotating meeting locations will give us the opportunity to discuss our next book in your neighborhood! To join us or to get more information, please email at membersite@livingstondiversity.com Our next Book Club Meeting will take place on Sept. 30th at 6:30pm Amer's Deli 543 W Grand River Ave
For further reading...
In this brilliant #1 bestseller, "the most important columnist in America today" (Walter Russell Mead, The New York Times) demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Thomas L. Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that
made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is
at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and
a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking,
heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship,
and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment.
Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old
narrator of this revelatory novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math
problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams
when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more
of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind"
by which most of us sense what's going on in other people's heads. When
his neighbor's poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of
the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes
(one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery
leads him to the secrets of his parents' broken marriage and then into
an odyssey to find his place in the world, he must fall back on deductive
logic to navigate the emotional complexities of a social world that
remains a closed book to him. In the hands of first-time novelist Haddon,
Christopher is a fascinating case study and, above all, a sympathetic
boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have it, but too open-overwhelmed
by sensations, bereft of the filters through which normal people screen
their surroundings. Christopher can only make sense of the chaos of
stimuli by imposing arbitrary patterns ("4 yellow cars in a row
made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don't speak to anyone and
sit on my own reading books and don't eat my lunch and Take No Risks").
His literal-minded observations make for a kind of poetic sensibility
and a poignant evocation of character. Though Christopher insists, "This
will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand
them," the novel brims with touching, ironic humor. The result
is an eye-opening work in a unique and compelling literary voice.
If you have a great book you would like us to feature or consider for our Monthly book club please email and let us know.
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