Krieder's book "We Learn Nothing" on tap for July Oconee book discussion

For July the book group - sponsored by the Oconee Democrats - is reading a book of essays called "We Learn Nothing” by cartoonist Tim Kreider. It’s a thought-provoking book about timely topics such as our busy busy lives and about how much we relish those feelings of loathing for . . . well, let me just throw out Dick Cheney as an example.

Here’s just a quick sample of his writing, here about the Tea Party:

"The main difference between us is our preferred villains: the left blames Corporate America for the ruinous state of the union, while the right blames the Government. Not many people on either side seem to have noticed that these alleged antagonists are literally the same people. They move from regulatory agencies to lobbying firms, Congress to corporate boards and back like Afghani warlords switching sides between Coalition and Insurgency depending on who’s paying better that week."

Join us sometime for a lively discussion on the last Wednesday of the month at 7 PM at Chops and Hops.

Here are other books we’ll be reading this year:

August: 
Salt: A World History 
by Mark Kurlansky 

September: 
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character 
by Paul Tough 

October: 
The Good Lord Bird: A Novel 
by James McBride 
(Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction) 

November: 
A Place at the Table: The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It
Edited by Peter Pringle

Pat Priest

Member, Oconee Democrats

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