🌹Book Club Gathering | July 17 (Fri.)
Join us for an evening of meaningful conversation and connection🌟
💫Time: 7:00–10:00 PM
💫Location: Coffee Secret 咖啡秘辛高雄河堤館
💫Book: 《The Art of Loving》
-Chapter 1
📖 Reading:
The e-book link will be shared in our group chat.
👂🏻 YouTube Audio book
https://youtu.be/ZiQuIb2xL2I?si=sJ9edVNBS_8gOOmU💰 Fee:
We’ve reserved a private room inside the café. Please support the venue by ordering at least one drink ($70～230).
🗣️ What to Expect
✨ 1. Thoughtful Questions
Come with one question inspired by the chapter. You’ll write it down anonymously, and we’ll draw questions then answer during the sharing session.
✨ 2. Introductions & Check-in
We’ll start with brief self-introductions and life updates to warm up the space.
✨ 3. Sharing & Discussion
Each participant will have about 10 minutes to share:
• Answer a question you drew
• Share a key idea from your assigned section that resonated with you
• Invite others into discussion
📌 Sign-up for Sections:
Please choose a section you’d like to share in advance. If not, sections will be assigned randomly a day before the event.
💫Chapter 1
p.16：open to sign up
p.17：open to sign up
p.18：open to sign up
p.19：open to sign up
p.20：open to sign up
p.21：open to sign up
✨ 4. Open Conversation
We’ll wrap up with a free-flow discussion—sharing reflections, questions, and anything that resonated with you.
💫Friendly Reminder
To make the most of our time together, please try to finish the reading beforehand so we can dive straight into meaningful discussion.
📝Quotes excerpt from chapter 1：
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one’s capacity to love.
A second premise behind the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love is the assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object, not the problem of a faculty. People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love—or to be loved by—is difficult.
The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of “falling” in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of “standing” in love.
The first step to take is to become aware that love is an art, just as living is an art; if we want to learn how to love we must proceed in the same way we have to proceed if we want to learn any other art, say music, painting, carpentry, or the art of medicine or engineering.
《The Art of Loving》
