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BookClubFriends.com is community for book lovers to connect. Our platform enables readers and writers to recommend, discuss and celebrate books. 💙📚 Proudly Canadian 🇨🇦 Here's a broad #Booksky 💙 feed for bibliophiles: https://tinyurl.com/nwnc9uyr

Louise Penny books "A Rule Against Murder", "The Murder Stone", "The Black Wolf"
Louise Penny books, "The Grey Wolf" and "The Black Wolf"
Book discussions on Book Club Friends. Aug 15th: The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny, Sept 15th: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, Oct 15th: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny, Nov 15th: TBA, Dec 15th The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
"My Friends" by Fredrik Backman
Book discussion schedule: July 15 "The Life We Bury" by Allen Eskens, Aug 15 "The Cruelest Month" by Louise Penny, Sept 15 "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy
"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" by Maria Ressa. Quote “Silence is complicity.”
"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa.
Book discussions: Maria Ressa "How To Stand Up To A Dictator", Alan Eskens "The Life We Bury", Louise Penny "The Cruelest Month"
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams
Currently reading: "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams "I was on a private jet with Mark the day he finally understood that Facebook probably did put Donald Trump in the White House, and came to his own dark conclusions from that." - p. 5
Lesson 20 of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder is "Be as courageous as you can."
Lesson 16 of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder is "Learn from peers in other countries"
Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder is "Practice Corporeal Politics". Photo of AOC and Bernie at a recent rally.
Lesson 12 of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder is "Make eye contact and small talk"
"On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
"On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder book discussion. "Dunning-Kruger Effect" a type of cognitive bias where people with little expertise or abiilty assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs as a result of the fact that they don't have enough knowledge to know they don't have enough knowledge.
Man standing in front of row of Tesla cybertrucks, similar to tank man of Tiananmen Square
Lesson 7 of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder is "Be reflective if you must be armed."
"On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder Lesson 6: Be wary of paramilitaries
"On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder. Lesson #4: “Take responsibility for the face of the world. The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them.”
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder quote, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Chapter 2: Defend Institutions
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Chapter 1: Do not obey in advance
Pop-up Book Club Discussion When: Tuesday, March 11 Where: BCF discussion forums How: One topic/day Schedule: https://www.bookclubfriends.com/discussion/on-tyranny-by-timothy-snyder/ “On Tyranny” is a short guide to 20 different strategies that citizens can use to defend democracy against an authoritarian government, written by historian Timothy Snyder who looks to 20th-century Europe in an effort to help 21st-century Americans. Join the conversation on Book Club Friends 🇨🇦 https://www.bookclubfriends.com/FightBack
Discussion of Still Life by Louise Penny
"When we choose tolerance over hate. Kindness over cruelty. Goodness over bullying. When we choose to be hopeful, not cynical. Then we live in Three Pines.” ~ Louise Penny
"The only things that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library." quote by Albert Einstein
“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela Join the conversation on Book Club Friends @ bookclubfriends.com/FightBack
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” ~ Fred Rogers
"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen" - Brene Brown
Quote by Tana French in her book "The Searcher": “A freebie, even a little one, does that to poor people; it loosens them”
We're currently discussing The Searcher by Tana French. Our chats cover a wide range of topics, including how this book relates to current events. If you're interested in in-depth, insightful, and thought-provoking discussion, it's right here.
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
Still Life by Louise Penny, The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger, The Briar Club by Kate Quinn, A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, How To Stand Up To A Dictator by Maria Ressa
Do not say things are impossible. Your every day small actions matter.
The Most Important Thing You Can Do ... Is Educate Yourself
The only way out is through. Robert Frost
With the weaponization of information, readers are the leaders we need to fight back against manipulation and disinformation. Recommended reading: “How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future” - Maria Ressa, Nobel laureate
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis, Homecoming by Kate Morton, When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash, The Stolen Child by Ann Hood, How To Stand Up To A Dictator by Maria Ressa
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa
Book discussions scheduled for Feb 15th The Searcher by Tana French, March 1 Still Life by Louise Penny, Mar 15th The River we Remember by William Kent Krueger and Apr 15th The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Just released: a gorgeous 20th Anniversary Edition of Still Life by Louise Penny!
Buy her books. They last longer than flowers.
He said: "Books or me". I sometimes remember him when I'm buying new books.
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."~ Henry Ward Beecher
If we meet and I say, 'Hi,' That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we stop and talk a while, That's a conversation. If we understand each other, That's a communication. If we argue, scream and fight, That's an altercation. If later we apoligize, That's reconciliation. If we help each other home, That's a cooperation. And all these actions added up Make Civilization. (And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?) Shel Silverstein
Book cover of Still Life by Louise Penny
Book cover of The Searcher by Tana French
Book cover for The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
This is the Episcopal Bishop of Washington who so bravely spoke against hate... I'm going to buy her book. Let's make it a best seller! It's sold out on Amazon so I'm going to order a copy and patiently wait.
Introverted but willing to discuss books.
Quote by Ray Bradbury: "Many people hear voices when there is no-one there. Some are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing."
Quote by Icona, "I love public libraries because they are built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income."
"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." ~ Toni Morrison
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon and The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny are books we are discussing right now in our forums
Upcoming book discussions. Feb 15: The Searcher by Tana French, Mar 15th: The river we remember by William Kent Krueger, Apr 15: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn.