Library of Trinity College Dublin.

Some time ago I created something called the Old School Self Improvement Book Club on meetup.com. Here's the pitch:

Are you interested in improving yourself? In watering the seeds of virtue and pulling out vice by the roots? Are you looking for guidance but the self-help section at the bookstore looks like shelves of unproven fads and nonsense that was invented ten minutes ago?

We agree: the old ways are still the best!

The Old School Self Improvement Book Club will meet once a month to discuss a selected time-tested work of practical philosophy, psychology, or advice for living. We'll come together somewhere in the greater Fort Lauderdale area to make it as easy as possible for anyone from Miami-Dade, Broward, or Palm Beach counties to attend.

Since June 2023's meeting for the Enchiridion of Epictetus, we've met almost every month and almost always at a wine bar in Fort Lauderdale called Vino's, which has graciously hosted us on Monday nights in a side room named "Napoleon's Parlour" and decorated with images of the emperor himself, very appropriate for our Count of Monte Cristo meeting (It was our group's only excursion into fiction)! I'll start cross-posting the meetup notifications here as well; after all, it's a good way to ensure at least one blog post per month!