shooting the monkey is a small reading group/book club based in the bay area. the name is in reference to the first book we read, as well as a play on
"shooting the shit", as in sitting around and talking b.s. about books, film, life, whatever.
Group Books
#3: Watchmen, by Alan Moore and The Sandman Vol. 1, by Neil Gaiman
#2: You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel, by Jonathan Lethem
#1: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah.
Shootlist
• The Lucifer Effect, by Philip Zimbardo
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins
