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"GOMOBAAT - Greening Our Mind One Book At A Time". The Greener Reader is a book club. We focus on reading and discussing texts (and sometimes films) that intersect with the topics of sustainability, conservation, democracy, civic engagement, and environmental ethic.
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Upcoming Meetings:

Tuesday January 28th on Lai Road in Palolo, 6 pm social and potluck, 6:30 - 7:30 pm Greener Reader Discussion of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan. Qualifying category: A perspective other than her own (psychedelics).Call or text 808-726-1305 for address, and directions

Sunday February 3rd, Reading day @ Makalei Beach Park, if weather permits. Spread out on a grassy knoll and read into the sunset with me. Bring grapes and La Croix 

Sunday February 17th 2 - 4 pm @ Da Shop Epitaph for a Peach - Slow Food Book Club

Thursday February 21st, Reading Happy Hour 5 pm - 7 pm @ Hawaii State Library. On this date in 1948, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. Cheers!
Tuesday February 25th on Lai Road in Palolo, 6 pm social and potluck, 6:30 - 7:30 pm Greener Reader Discussion of Unsheltered: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Qualifying category: A book related to a place he's from (the US). 

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2019's Reading List
 
See below for how many copies are available within our Hawaii State Library system. You can call and reserve or transfer books to your closest branch. Or check out the local book stores in Kaimuki and Ward for new or used copies. Or let me know if you have a copy you want to donate!
 
For 2019, book recommendations fell under one of these categories:1) A book related to a place you're from (author, setting, or topic) 2) Indigenous author 3) A perspective other than your own (however you want to interpret this) 4) A memoir or biography on a leader 5) Books from one of these nine sci-fi sub-genres to help us understand the future 6) Books related to Hawaii 7) A book from the Slow Books 2019 reading list by Slow Foods Oahu and Da Shop.
 
January 29th: How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan. Qualifying category: A perspective other than her own (psychedelics). 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries. Reserve early!

February 25th: Unsheltered: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Qualifying category: A book related to a place he's from (the US). 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries. Reserve early!

March 26th: The Power by Naomi Alderman. Qualifying category: Kitchen sink dystopia. 5+ copies available in Hawaii libraries. Reserve early!

April 30th: Becoming by Michelle Obama. Qualifying category: A  memoir of a leader). Over 2 million people bought it. Borrow someone's copy!

May 28th: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Qualifying category: A memoir or biography of a leader. 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries.

June 25th: Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood. Qualifying categories: Climate Fiction ("Cli-Fi"). 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries.

July 30th: Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder. Qualifying category: The New Weird. 5 copies available in Hawaii libraries. Reserve early!

August 27th: Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case by David E. Stannard. Qualifying category: A book related to Hawaii. 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries.

September 24th: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky. Qualifying category: A book related to a place Mikey is from (Mumsie's kitchen table). 4 copies available in Hawaii libraries.

October 29th: Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman. Qualifying category: Slow Books 2019 reading list

November 26th: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Qualifying category: Indigenous author. 5 copies available in Hawaii libraries. Reserve early!

December 17th:  Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell. Qualifying category: Related to Hawaii. 10+ copies available in Hawaii libraries. Meet, Eat, & Determine 2020's list!!
 
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