Books-N-Wine Book Club

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.

We did not have a December meeting which was supposed to be caroling and a party.  Someday, we may get to this book.