Book Club: Siren’s Call by Chris Hayes
Mon, Oct 20
|Lakeland Retirement Center
Leader: Chris Ebert
Time & Location
Oct 20, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Lakeland Retirement Center, 103 Elm Street, Woodruff, WI 54568, USA
About the Event
Arrive by 12:00pm, bring a lunch or snack you enjoy as it will not be provided.
Book Club discussions start at 1:00pm and generally end by 2:30pm.
A notice will be sent out to all members one week before we meet with final details.
ABOUT THE BOOK
We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, "With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about…