The Stanford Postdoc and friends bookgroup meets roughly once a month at Cafe Borrones around dinner time to talk about, amongst other things, the book we read for that month.
 
Recent books the group has been reading are: "On Beauty" by Zadie Smith, "Freakonomics" by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen, "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond, "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.
 
Every couple of months the group nominates and then votes for the next couple of books. Email Mark Topinka if you'd like to be added to the email list.
 
And, fyi, you don't really need to be a Stanford post-doc to join the group- a lot of the people who come to the group are a couple of degrees of separation from a Stanford post-doc, so if your friends or significant others are interested, they're welcome too. A good place to get the books: Amazon or Kepler's Bookstore For more information, contact the bookclub organizer: Mark Topinka

If you are organising or hear about an event that might be of interest to other postdocs, feel free to e-mail the general list: supd-members@lists.stanford.edu and/or the Council co-chairs to have your event added to the SUPD website.

Thanks to all who made it out, we had a blast! Here are some photos from the event.