Book Club Podcast Carly Jackson

Season 3 of the Book Club Podcast starts now! This season, we are exploring Millennial Nostalgia. We're reading books that we have loved since childhood to determine if they helped prepare us for adult life.

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Read One in a Millennial for our first book discussion. You can get your copy of all the books using our affiliate links here:

1. One in a Millennial by Kate Kennedy [https://www.amazon.com/One-Millennial-Friendship-Feelings-Fangirls/dp/1250285127/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1]
2. The Giver by Lois Lowry [https://www.amazon.com/Giver-25th-Anniversary-Quartet/dp/1328471225/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1]
3. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle [https://www.amazon.com/Wrinkle-Time-Quintet/dp/0374386137/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1]
4. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien [https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Frisby-Rats-Robert-OBrien/dp/0689206518/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1]
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling [https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Goblet-Fire-Book/dp/1338878956/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1]
6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman [https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Bride-Morgensterns-Classic-Adventure/dp/0156035154/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1]

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In our long delayed recap episode for our Solarpunk season, Caroline and Carly reflect on what they have learned about how to organize society.

Our Solar punk books were:

1. Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/ecotopia-by-ernest-callenbach-book]
2. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-by-becky]
3. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/the-fifth-sacred-thing-by-starhawk]
4. Suncatcher by Alia Gee Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/suncatcher-seven-days-in-the-sky]
5. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/the-dispossessed-by-ursula-k-leguin]
6. Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/emergency-skin-by-nk-jemisin-book]
7. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/seveneves-by-neal-stephenson-book]
8. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/earth-abides-by-george-r-stewart]
9. Walkaway by Cory Doctorow Book Club [https://bookclubpod.substack.com/p/walkaway-by-cory-doctorow-book-club]

Concepts and genre themes discussed: creative use of technology as a net benefit to mankind, progressive worldview, a relationship to the meaning of life, a relationship to the Earth.

They also discuss what kind of luxuries or status is required to give up in order to make a better society and their willingness to make those changes. What are you willing to give up?

These books brought up questions of the balance between freedom and coercion to find the most human flourishing, when does major societal change happen, how to resolve disputes peacefully, what does it mean to have faith?

Carly and Caroline also talk about which books they would read again and which books they would not read again.

What happens to a post scarcity society when the fear of death is removed? In our final discussion for our Solar Punk season, Caroline and Carly ponder how curing death can help create a better society. They talk about some of the tradeoffs of living a completely free life with no possessions versus a wealthy life where your possessions can be taken away.

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Walkaway [https://amzn.to/3QIrfQL]by Cory Doctorow

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Special guest Margaret joins us to talk about rebuilding civilization after collapse and what we lose when civilization ends. We ask if people are capable of radical change. In this book, our main character, Ish, builds a family that grows into a new community in the years after a pandemic wipes out most of humanity.

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Earth Abides [https://amzn.to/459u551] by George R. Stewart

Walkaway [https://amzn.to/3QIrfQL]by Cory Doctorow

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Special guest Christy joins us to talk about Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, about the human response when the moon is destroyed in an unpredictable cataclysm. The main characters must build habitats in space to preserve the human race until Earth is restored. We discuss the traits of humanity that we want to preserve for future survival and the love of Earth strong enough to guide 5,000 years of human history.

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Earth Abides [https://amzn.to/459u551] by George R. Stewart

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We are wrapping up our season on Solar Punk with three heavy hitting books.

The final three books of the season are Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Earth Abides by George R. Stewart and Walkaway by Cory Doctorow..

Seveneves begins with the destruction of the moon, wiping out all life on Earth. Survivors build a civilization in space for 5,000 years, until the Earth is habitable again.

In Earth Abides, a pandemic wipes out most of humanity and the main character travels the country, observing how animal and plant life adapt to an ecosystem without humans. Over the course of his life he sees what remains from the old civilization, and what does not.

Walkaway is about informal groups who "walk away" from corrupt American society by building and surviving in areas of land destroyed by climate change.

These books create worlds in which humanity must deal with a worldwide crisis and build a better society for the future.

Read Seveneves for our next book discussion. You can get your copy of all the books using our affiliate links here:

Seveneves [https://amzn.to/44VKH0E]| Earth Abides [https://amzn.to/3OH7MOO] | Walkaway [https://amzn.to/45i3ens]

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