Morning Book Club
Schedule
Tue, 12 Aug, 2025 at 11:00 am
UTC-07:00Location
402 W. Main Ave., Spokane, WA, United States, Washington 99201 | Spokane, WA
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This group reads a wide selection of mainstream fiction and some nonfiction. We meet the second Tuesday of the month at 11am. in-person at the store. Please join us even if you may not have read the book. We always welcome comments in our discussions. Just remember - there will be spoilers!August Selection
In August we will be discussing "An Immense World" by Ed Yong.
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.
In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.
Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”
Leader of the In-Person Group: Linda (she/her)
Contact: [email protected]
Book Club Website: https://www.auntiesbooks.com/aunties-morning-book-club
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Where is it happening?
402 W. Main Ave., Spokane, WA, United States, Washington 99201Event Location & Nearby Stays:
