Book of the month:

Books are awesome inspiration for big talk. Join our book of the month club to go deeper while you read.

 

The book of the month is a nascent program which will start in January of 2009. Send us suggestions for books and ideas on making this aspect of the BigTalk Project more successful at bookclub[at]betweenaduck.com

Preliminary talks have already commenced, and suggestions are pouring in from all over the map. The following books have been mentioned:

 

• Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
• Love in the Time of Cholera/Amor en los Tiempos de Colera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
• Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Motorcycle Diaries/ Los Diarios de Motocicleta, Ernesto Che Guevara
• A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
• Manufacturing Consent, Herman and Chomsky
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis, Dave Eggers
• A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
• Spiral Dynamics, Don Beck and Chris Cowan
• A Brief History of Everything, Ken Wilber
• The Revolution: A Manifesto, Ron Paul
• A Foreign Policy ofFreedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship, Ron Paul
• Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
• Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz