Miscellany...
The Book Club
Words With Friends
Reading List
2023-2024
June Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
May Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
April The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Mar The Whispers by Greg Howard
Feb The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
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Dec The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Nov Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford
Oct Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
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2022-2023
Jun The Fact of a Body by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
May The Matrix by Lauren Groff
Apr A Beautiful Terrible Thing by Jen Waite
Mar Tamed and Untamed by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Sy Montgomery
Feb House of the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Jan All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Dec Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Nov Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Oct My Monticello by Jocelyn Johnson
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2021-2022
Jun The Other Black Girl by Zakia Dalila Harris
May The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Apr Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Mar Girls Like Us by Christina Alger
Feb The Weekend Away by Sarah Alderson
Jan Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangiello
Dec
Nov Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You by Christina Thompson
Oct The Dutch House by Ann Pachett
Sep Klara and the Sun by Kazoo Ishiguro
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2020-2021
May The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Apr Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
Mar Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
Feb The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre
Jan The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Dec The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapel
Nov The Windfall by Diksha Bashu
Oct Small Great Things by Jody Picoult
Sept In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
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2019-2020
Aug Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Jul Raw Wounds by Kondwani Fidel
Jun The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
May Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Apr Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Mar Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poor
'Tis better to give than receive...
A New Tradition of Giving
Our family has added a meaningful and exciting Christmas Eve activity to our family holiday traditions. Each year, on Christmas Eve, we choose a charity to support. One member of our family researches and presents a number of candidates. We engage in spirited but civil debate abut the merits of each one and vote on which one to support. Mom and Dad match all donations from other members of the family (an increasingly expensive proposition as the kids become financially solvent). While we support many causes, we believe that if our planet does not thrive, none of us survive. Most of our giving now supports environmental causes.
Our Annual Charity Picks
2019
Curated by Dahven
EarthJustice
Earthjustice was founded on the belief that everyone has the right to a healthy environment. They serve hundreds of public-interest clients, providing top-tier legal representation free of charge, Because the earth needs a good lawyer!
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...with a nod to One Tree Planted
Together we can restore forests, create habitat for biodiversity, and make a positive social impact around the world. OTP makes it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Since 2014, over 135.5 million trees have been planted across 82 countries.
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2020
Curated by R
Environmental Progress
Environmental Progress (EP) was founded with the mission of achieving nature, peace and prosperity for all. EP is working to save the world’s most important source of energy, nuclear power, by building a humanistic environmental movement that demands energy justice for all.
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2021
Curated by C
Carbon 180
Carbon 180 is on a mission to design and champion equitable, science-based policies that bring carbon removal solutions to gigaton scale.
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2022
Curated by M
Center for Biological Diversity
The welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. The Center works to secure a future for all species, great and small, through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.
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2023
Curated by A
Well Done Foundation
Plugging the 3.5 million orphan wells in the USA reverses climate change, protects water, air and soil. Since 2019 the WDF has plugged 29 orphan oil and gas wells in several states, permanently reducing harmful methane gas emissions (80X more harmful than carbon dioxide) by more than 500,000 metric tons of CO2e.
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...with a nod to Terrapraxis
The mission of Terrapraxis is to innovate and accelerate scalable, equitable, solutions for unsolved areas of the climate challenge. They envision universals access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy that empowers people and protects nature.
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... and Deploy/US
Decarbonization is a long-term project, requiring policy approaches and political support resilient to political and economic swings. DEPLOY/US supports civic enterprises working right-of-center on climate change, as a crucial foundation for bipartisan policy.
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