AA Book Club

  The Little Red Book has fallen into disuse in recent decades, partly because it is considered 'outside literature.' But it actually merits close examination, being widely used in A.A.'s period of tremendous growth after the Big Book was published. LRB was praised by both Dr. Bob and Bill W, and Dr. Bob is believed to have helped edit the text. Check out these two informative links:

 Thoughts for the week:

Our Speaker for this week is Mrs. Marty Mann, the first woman in A.A. to achieve long-term sobriety:

 In A.A. there has long been  a debate over emphasizing spirituality versus psychology in the recovery program. The great history site Hindsfoot.org reports on the history of this issue:

Here is Part Two of a presentation by William Schaberg, author of  Writing The Big Book provided by RecoverySpeakers.com:

 One of A.A.'s most beloved speakers, Clancy:

 Thoughts for the week:

 Our regular Saturday speaker link:

 For women's History Month, here is an article of  The Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous, Sister Ignacia:

William Schaberg's Writing The Big Book is an incredibly informative, in-depth history of how our fellowship's major text came to be written and published. It challenges some of our established ideas of early A.A. history. Here is Part One of a presentation by the author from the highly-recommended site RecoverySpeakers.com:

Thoughts for the week:

 Saturday speaker link for this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vjaXiC9jm4   

Throwback Thursday is always History Day here at AA Book Club Blog!

Tuesday literature link:

Thoughts for the week: March 7  HOW TO BE UNHAPPY       Sit down quietly where you are not likely to be disturbed. Relax the body—and begin to think about yourself. Every time your thought wanders to something higher, bring it back gently but relentlessly. Think about the past. 

For this Saturday's speaker link, we have a presentation by Dr, Paul O, author of the Big Book story Acceptance Was The Answer (Original title: Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict):

It's Throwback Thursday, time for some A.A. history!

      The first post on the AA Book Club blog! " We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the  action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation  of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited  to this class and never occurs in the average temperate  drinker."  Big Book, page xxvi, The Doctor's Opinion.