Please join us to kick off the DFW Smith Club Book Group!
March – April Pick:
H is for Hawk about her experience living with and training a goshawk, by Helen McDonald
We will meet on Sunday, April 12, at 3 pm at the home of Carolyn Macartney in east Dallas. Her contact information is below. PLEASE RSVP to Carolyn Macartney if you plan to attend cmacpix@gmail.com.
We will discuss Helen Macdonald’s memoir H is for Hawk about her experience living with and training a goshawk. The book was the cover review in yesterday’s New York Times Book Review, which you can read at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/books/review/helen-macdonalds-h-is-for-hawk.html?src=me&_r=0 .
January-February Pick:
Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong
By Jessica Bacal, Director of the Smith College Wurtele Center for Work and Life
http://www.jessbacal.com/
If you are interested in participating in the Book Group, please complete this online survey to help us start our planning.
Please RSVP to abbygarfield@yahoo.com.
2014 Summer Book Club Selection: Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us, by Claude Steele
In his new book, Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us, social psychologist Claude Steele helps us find answers to these questions based on findings from social psychology experiments. Steel’s book sets forth an argument for understanding how contextual factors—not individual characteristics or personal beliefs motivated by prejudice or malice—help explain so-termed “racial achievement gaps” in education and ongoing societal racial and ethnic segregation.
Date: Saturday, July 26th
Time: 2:00pm