Posted on June 13, 2021 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join us on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 7pm in person in the Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) or via Zoom to discuss the book “What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism” by Dan Rather. This is an open event for the residents & their guests who would like to join us. Note that masks will still be required if meeting in person in the MPR.
“At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on—and writing passionately about—what it means to be an American. Now, with this collection of original essays, he reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine, Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world’s biggest stories. As a living witness to historical change, he offers up an intimate view of history, tracing where we have been in order to help us chart a way forward and heal our bitter divisions.
With a fundamental sense of hope, What Unites Us is the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are, finally, one.” – Amazon
Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on Wednesday, June 16th at 7pm!
Posted on April 28, 2021 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join us on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 7pm via Zoom to discuss the book “Bad Blood” by John Carreyrou. This is an open event for the residents & their guests who would like to join us.
“In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work.
A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.” – Amazon
Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on Wednesday, May 19th at 7pm!
Posted on March 26, 2021 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join us on April 21, 2021 at 7pm via Zoom
to discuss the book “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson. This is an open event for the
residents & their guests who would like to join us.
“In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a
masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through
an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how
America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste
system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful
caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate.
Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson
explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations,
including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories
about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a
single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows
the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She
documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their
out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that
there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against;
she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life
expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics.
Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and
destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The
Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a
reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American
life today.” – Amazon
Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on
Wednesday, April 21st at 7pm!
Posted on February 19, 2021 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join us on March 17, 2021 at 7pm via Zoom
to discuss the book “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett. This is an open
event for the residents & their guests who would like to join us.
“The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after
growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at
age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as
adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial
identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the
same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for
white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated
by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain
intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’
storylines intersect?” – Amazon
Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on
Wednesday, March 17th at 7pm!
Posted on January 22, 2021 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join us on February 17, 2021 at 7pm via
Zoom to discuss the book “The Biggest Bluff” by Maria Konnikova. This is an
open event for the residents & their guests who would like to join us.
“The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker
players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as
you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she
learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post
Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on
Wednesday, February 17th at 7pm!
Posted on December 18, 2020 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join us on Jan 20, 2021 at 7pm via Zoom to
discuss the book “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata. This is an open
event for the residents & their guests who would like to join us.
“The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented
contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store
Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo
resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in
school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi
branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store,
unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction―many are
laid out line by line in the store’s manual―and she does her best to copy the
dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a “normal”
person excellently, more or less. Managers come and go, but Keiko stays at the
store for eighteen years. It’s almost hard to tell where the store ends and she
begins. Keiko is very happy, but the people close to her, from her family to
her coworkers, increasingly pressure her to find a husband, and to start a
proper career, prompting her to take desperate action… A brilliant depiction of
an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an
ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to
conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable
heroine.” – Amazon
Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on
Wednesday, January 20th at 7pm!
Posted on November 12, 2020 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join us
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 7pm via Zoom to discuss the book “Love in Time
of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. This is an open event for the residents
& their guests who would like to join us.
“In their youth, Florentino
Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually
chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he
is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in
622 affairs–yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last,
and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and
four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.” –
Amazon
Sound interesting? If so,
start reading and join us on Wednesday, December 16th at 7pm via
Zoom. Anyone interested to join us on Zoom to email Mariel at marielcrow@aol.com. We hope to see you
there!
Posted on October 25, 2020 by hvazquez
All homeowners are invited to join us on Wednesday, October
28th at 6pm via Zoom to review the budget draft for 2021!
Copies of the budget are available to homeowners at the
front desk or you can email management for a copy. We hope to see you there!
Posted on September 19, 2020 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join us on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at
7pm via Zoom to discuss the book “The Black Tulip” by Alexandre Dumas, a
classic. This is an open event for the residents & their guests who would
like to join us.
“Cornelius von Baerle lives only to cultivate the elusive black
tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But when his powerful
godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in a
deadly political intrigue. Falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival,
Cornelius is condemned to life in prison. His only comfort is Rosa, the
jailer’s beautiful daughter, who helps him concoct a plan to grow the black
tulip in secret. As Robin Buss explains in his informative introduction, Dumas
infuses his story with elements from the history of the Dutch Republic
(including two brutal murders) and Holland’s seventeenth-century ‘tulipmania’
phenomenon” – Amazon
Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join
us on Wednesday, October 21st at 7pm via Zoom.
Posted on August 21, 2020 by hvazquez
We welcome you to join the book club on Wednesday, September
16, 2020 at 7pm via ZOOM to discuss the book “Educated” by Tara Westover. This
is an open event for residents & their guests who would like to join us.
“Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara
Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family
was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the
children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s
older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college,
Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed
her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge
University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was
still a way home.” – Amazon.
Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on
Wednesday, September 16th at 7pm via ZOOM. We hope to see you there!
