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[lovescats]

It looks like mostly nonfiction something I don't read a lot of but I like to see what other people are reading. It's on Facebook under the page a year of books. He says goal is a book every two weeks. We will read a new book every two weeks and discuss it here. Our books will emphasize learning about new cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. https://www.facebook.com/zuck?pnref=lhc.recent

[september]

Although I'm on Facebook...have to admit I'm not one of his biggest fans. I have a huge reading list now, am in two book clubs....don't think I need to read what his favorites are.

but I appreciate you talking about new books for us to read. His choices are just not something I want to check out.

[lovescats]

this is his current pick which if I see it at the library I would borrow it The author was on npr today

from https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/immunity

On becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment, what is in your child’s air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.

In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate community, America and the world, historically and in the present moment. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire’s Candide, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Susan Sontag’s AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is a moving account of how we are all interconnected—our bodies and our fates.