JANUARY’S BOOK 📚 : THE DENIAL OF DEATH

- Ernest Becker (1973, 300+ pages, USA):

Books & Beers! Literature & Libations! Alcohol & Alliterations! We are here to provide it all with Teddy’s Book Club, meeting on the second Sunday of each month at 6:30 pm. Amanda will be hosting, and we’ll discuss the monthly selections and choose what we’d like to read for the upcoming month. We hope you’ll join us - but even if you can’t, please still get the book and talk to Amanda about it! Or - even better - strike up a conversation with someone else who is also reading it this month.

Amanda’s Commentary:

Is the whole of human civilization - all its triumphs and failings - merely the culmination of each of our individual attempts to escape the knowledge of our mortality? Are all stories, all art, every game ever played an anxious response to the unassailable and utterly unbelievable notion that someday there will no longer be an “I?” Weaving together psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and religion, Becker examines our motivating fear of death, and offers solutions for acceptance and, ultimately, transcendence.

Please support your local bookstores! We are part of Changing Hand’s featured book clubs - which means a discount for you: 10% off paperbacks, 20% off hardcovers; in-store and online. Just mention us! Online, you’ll mention us in the ‘comments’ section, and the discount will be manually applied.

If you have any questions please reach out to Amanda at AmandaFilmClub@gmail.com