November 2006

Our book group choice for December is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only […]

Our book group choice for November 2006 is Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. It is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant–in the blink of an eye–that actually aren’t as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?