Book Club
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Skepchick Book Club: Paleofantasy
Note: Information about next month’s book is at the bottom of this post. Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month we read Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk. The author talks about evolution and the perception of how early humans lived versus the reality, and she does a…
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Skepchick Book Club: The Ghost Map
(Note: The details for next month’s book and the themed recipe are at the bottom of this post.) Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month, we read The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. The book is about a deadly cholera outbreak in Victorian-era London and the investigation done by Dr. John Snow (no, not the same one, and…
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Skepchick Book Club: Gulp
Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month, we read Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach. (NOTE: Details for next month’s book are at the bottom of this post.) I’m a huge fan of her writing style–witty, full of facts (the footnotes are usually where the best anecdotes are), and delightfully gross. The book tackles everything…
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Skepchick Book Club: Going Clear
(Note: The end of this post contains details for the next book club.) Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month, we read Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright. I’m a huge fan of the New Yorker, so I was excited to read this book because I’ve enjoyed Wright’s other pieces in…
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Skepchick Book Club: Because I Said So!
Note: Information about next month’s Book Club is at the bottom of this thread. Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! Normally, you would need to have read a book to participate in the thread, but because this book was about researching the actual facts behind the”myths, tales, and warnings every generation passes down to its kids” (e.g. the 10%…
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Skepchick Book Club: Unorthodox
(Note: The bottom of this post contains information for next month’s book club) Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month’s book was Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman. I’ll admit, sometimes I struggle to get all the way through the book club books (I prefer dystopic future and other fiction) because non-fiction can be densely packed with facts, but I…
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