FROG Book Discussion Schedule – 2016-2018
Here is our planned schedule through mid-2017. Meetings are on the 2nd Saturday of the month from 2–4:00 PM, usually at a JeffCo Library meeting room. Schedule is subject to change. Be sure to go to our Meetup site to register to attend and to find out about any last-minute changes in location, date, time, etc.
SAT, MAR 11, 2017: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without a Design by Richard Dawkins
SAT, APR 8, 2017: Topic: Robots: What does the future hold? Will robots be a boon to humanity or will they lead to the demise of humans? Read a book on topic which can include fiction, e.g., I, Robot by Asimov, or nonfiction, e.g., Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford, or perhaps watch a movie like Blade Runner, The Terminator or Ex Machina.
SAT, MAY 13, 2017: – God, No! Signs You May Already be an Atheist and other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller)
SAT, JUN 10, 2017: – Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
SAT, JUL 8, 2017: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
SAT, AUG 12, 2017: Topic: Overpopulation
SAT, SEPT 9, 2017: The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth
SAT, OCT 14, 2017: Debunk It! How to stay sane in a world of misinformation by John Grant
SAT, NOV 11, 2017: The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt
SAT, DEC 9, 2017: – Topic: The Enlightenment
SAT, JAN 13, 2018: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
SAT, FEB 10, 2018: The Political Mind: Why you can’t understand 21st-century American politics with an 18th-century brain by George Lakoff
SAT, MAR 10, 2018: Location TBD
Trust Us, We’re Experts: How industry manipulates science and gambles with your future by John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
PAST BOOK DISCUSSIONS
SAT, AUG 13, 2016: Creating Change through Humanism by Roy Speckhardt
SAT, SEP 17, 2016: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
SAT, OCT 8, 2016: Topic: Political Movements, Populism and Extremism – Read: It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, American Hysteria: The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United States by Andrew Burt and/or another book on topic (option: Watch a movie on topic like “A Face in the Crowd.”)
SAT, NOV 12, 2016: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
SAT, DEC 10, 2016: A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
SAT, JAN 14, 2017: Topic: Famous Humanists – Read a book about or by a famous humanist (e.g. Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bertrand Russell, etc.)
SAT, FEB 11, 2017: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
SUN, FEB 5, 2017: 1984 by George Orwell – This is a special, extra meeting of our discussion group to read a classic that has more meaning as of late
