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Adult Book Club Discussion

Breath by James Nestor

Please join us for one of our meetings of our Adult Book Club scheduled for Tuesday, February 11, at 1:00 pm and Friday, February 14, at 1:30 pm.  We will be discussing the book "Breath" by James Nestor.


There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
 

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library.

What:  Adult Book Club

When/Where:  Tuesday, February 11, at 1:00 p.m.  - East Troy Lions Public Library

                                              OR
When/Where:  Friday, February 14, at 1:30 p.m. - East Troy Lions Public Library

East Troy Lions Public Library Adult Book Club Reading List 2025

    

January: The Boys by Katie Hafner

February:  Breath by James Nestor
 
March: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

April:  James by Percival Everett

May:   Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

June:  Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman

July:  Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

August: Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly

September:  The Women by Kristin Hannah

October:  Being Henry by Henry Winkler

November:  Title to be determined

December:  Title to be determined