LibGuides: BYOB: Bring Your Own Book Club: May 2

May 2, 2018

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx

Books we talked about today

We had a lively discussion today. Books talked about today were many and varied:

· Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans

· On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen

· Overdiagnosed by H. Gilbert Welch

· Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt

· Stone Sky [Book three of the Broken Earth Trilogy]

· Walking the Americas by Levison Wood

Comments and Conversations

Broad Band by Claire L. Evans
Call Number: REC QA76.2.A2 E93 2018
ISBN: 9780735211759
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Before Steve Jobs put a personal computer in your hands; before Larry Page and Sergey Brin put any answer at your fingertips; before Mark Zuckerberg connected you to your long-lost friends, female visionaries were at the vanguard of the technology you love (and love to hate). VICEfutures editor and lead singer of the band YACHT Claire Evans presents the first social history of women and the internet. These innovators, concentrating where computers have made our lives better, richer, and more connected, are the unsung heroes of network culture. Join the ranks of women who have pioneered technology, like Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wrote the first program for a mechanical computer. Grace Hopper, a navy admiral and mathematician created machine-independent programming languages. Stacy Horn ran one of the Internet's earliest social networks, Echo, out of her Greenwich Village apartment in New York City. To say nothing of database poets, desktop thespians, cyber-ingenues, glass ceiling-shattering entrepreneurs, and the self-proclaimed "biggest bitch in Silicon Alley." Evans shines a light on these bright minds whom history forgot, showing us how women have always pushed technology forward and will continue to shape our world in powerful ways that we can no longer ignore.
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen
Call Number: REC PR6052.O848 O5 2017
ISBN: 9780425283509
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
When royal sleuth Georgie Rannoch receives a letter from her dearest friend Belinda, who's in an Italian villa awaiting the birth of her illegitimate baby, she yearns to run to her side. If only she could find a way to get there! But then opportunity presents itself in a most unexpected way - her cousin the queen asks her to attend a house party in the Italian Lake Country. The Prince of Wales AND the dreadful Mrs. Simpson have been invited, and Her Majesty is anxious to thwart a possible secret wedding. What luck! A chance to see Belinda, even if it is under the guise of stopping unwanted nuptials. Only that's as far as Georgie's fortune takes her. She soon discovers that she attended finishing school with the hostess of the party - and the hatred they had for each other then has barely dimmed. Plus, she needs to hide Belinda's delicate condition from the other guests. And her dashing beau, Darcy is (naturally) working undercover on a dangerous mission. Then her actress mother shows

Overdiagnosed
From the review: “Primum non nocere.” I first heard those words very early in my medical school experience. “First do no harm” became a guiding principle during my professional career and, I hope, served me and my patients well. I quickly learned there was a lot we could do for our patients, but it was much more important to know what we should do for our patients to improve their health. Time has moved on..."
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
Goodreads: "Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity’s first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness."
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth #3) by N.K. Jemisin
Goodreads: "THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe..."
Walking the Americas
Goodreads:
"SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
BY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin
Walking the Americas chronicles Levison Wood's 1,800 mile trek along the spine of the Americas, through eight countries, from Mexico to Colombia, experiencing some of the world's most diverse, beautiful and unpredictable places..."