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RISE Book Club
Reading for Inspiration, Support, and Empowerment
Open to survivors, thrivers, and caregivers of any cancer residing in Hawaii! The book club meets online on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month at 7 PM. We will cover a few chapters of our current book each session.
Current Book
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
Summary
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Last Session
Date: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Next Book
Four Thousand Weeks Time Management for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman
Summary
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.
Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society―and that we could do things differently.
First Session
Date: Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Past Books
Contact Information
For more information or questions, please contact us at hello@breastcancerhawaii.org or call us at 808.215.0303.