Inventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Inventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 

Next Book Group on universal basic income

​At last, about 9 years after its inception, this blog may have found its raison d'etre as a record of the Gentle Readers Book Group, established 2014.

Artificial Intelligence or AI

Next Book Group is on the potential impact of AI and technology in society. I recommend these DN! clips.

Pure, white and deadly

Our Feb book group meeting was on health: physical health and the modern medical model. (Prev, we looked at mental health and read Lost Connections by Johann Hari.)

Dark Mountain

We intend to challenge the stories which underpin our civilisation: the myth of progress, the myth of human centrality, and the myth of our separation from ‘nature’.

— Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto

This book or collection of essays and stories sounds worth following up. 

The boy who harnessed the wind

Now on Netflix.  Good review in Socialist Worker 6 March p13.

Goodreads

Recommended by friend DB of splendid B&B Radnor House in Hay on Wye. 
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane, published 2003, about the history of the human fascination with mountains

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry: two young soldiers find intimacy amid the horrors of the American civil war

Sacred Hunger, historical novel by Barry Unsworth about the slave trade, 1992 Booker Prize (with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient)