Bookshop Santa Cruz’s Community Book Group

Led by Julie Minnis with a discussion with Prof. Bruce Bridgeman

Book Choice: My Stroke of Insight—by Jill Taylor

* please note 7:00pm start time of this event

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We are celebrating our third year of Community Book Groups—a monthly Book Group that is open to everyone in the community.  While we’ll continue to honor titles written by local authors in our area, we thought we would also celebrate the amazing minds of our community.  With art, thought and culture, being Santa Cruz ’s backbone, we decided to bring some of that creativity and smarts into our Book Group as well.  To start the idea off, we’ll literally be talking about what sparks ideas in the first place—brains—with the help of UCSC’s neuroscientist Bruce Bridgeman. 

Bookshop’s next community selection will be Jill Taylor’s, My Stroke of Insight. At 37, Taylor, a Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours, Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover.  For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation. It taught her that by "stepping to the right" of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by "brain chatter."  A beautiful personal account of brain science, this is a memoir that will leave you touched and curious.

To help with that curiosity, our Community Book Group will feature a discussion about the book at 7:00 pm facilitated by Julie Minnis, followed by a dialogue with local neuroscientist Professor Bruce Bridgeman at 7:30pm.  My Stroke of Insight will be discounted to the whole community at 10% off its cover price from Tuesday, January 12th until the February 10th meeting date (for those last minute readers!). We hope you’ll join us.

PS—There will be snacks and tea!!

My Stroke of Insight -- DISCOUNTED 10%

$13.50

Model: CommReadFeb2010

This item is available through Febrary 10th, 2010

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