Book Club

Sun., Aug. 15, 1999

City: Kettle Falls, Colville.

Group history: Group, originally called the Women’s Feminist Socialist Group, has been together for 20 years. Currently, nine women are members. Meets monthly, usually on Fridays, alternating among members’ houses, sometimes a park, for potluck dinner. Choose books by consensus. Read a variety of topics, many by women, health books.

Book reviewed: “The Seat of the Soul” (Fireside, 256 pages, $13 paper) by Gary Zukav.

Group representative: Evelyn Florio.

The review: Zukav, author of the American Book Award-winning “The Dancing Wu Li Masters,” extends his study to the very nature of the human soul. To Zukav, humans are “immortal souls” first, physical beings second. “We’ve had a very lively discussion about it because of the themes that he raises,” Florio says. “Some people are skeptical…. There has been some discussion about what he really means, and what does it mean in terms of our everyday lives.”

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