Yet no more unpleasant supper could there have been than the one that a goddess and a powerful man would soon serve to those who started such vile misdeeds.

a masterpiece which reveals the power of storytelling, where the characters share experiences and understanding with the reader, revealing the complexities of our human experience. If you want to ride along with people who lived and died before our grandparents were born, read this.

The Iliad is the oldest commonly known story ever written. The manuscript memorialized the oral tradition of Homer. It is about war, Greek gods, ego, and honor.

There are angels and demons in every domain, and many heroes emerged to bring order to a collapsing system, while others, such as Jesse Livermore, shorted the collapsing system to make $100 million in a single day. For most, they were just trying to figure it out day by day.

As with all the great classics, they are classics for a reason, too often wasted on young people in school who cannot appreciate the lessons; they simply have not had enough life to live, to suffer, to grow, to understand viscerally. We agreed - which we seldom do on other topics - This is a masterpiece.

“To judge anything, you need to know everything. But we cannot know everything…”.

Topol identifies five important dimensions impacting health for people of a certain age: lifestyle+, cells, omics, AI, and drugs and vaccines. Lifestyle+ are the things that we control as individuals: Diet and exercise, social engagement, mental engagement, and limited tobacco and alcohol use.

Politicians meanwhile are always laser focused on the next election. And that means money.

Meeting to discuss this particular book, examining its literary variety, the plots' breadth, the constant of Mother Nature, enhanced its richness. This was a good one to kick around together.

our book club nailed another book that “we would not ordinarily seek out on our own“, forcing us to consider this difficult stain on America

Baby boomers have enjoyed a financial fixture of declining interest rates for about forty years. Declining interest rates drive down the...

Boyd the book Bill had recommended Boyd , published in 2002, based on a recommendation through his wife, maybe related to their son’s...

the mental health pandemic our young people have been struck by is worse than anything we have faced as a free society.

Dostoevsky has a well founded reputation as a giant of western literature for his use of the novel to explore emergent ‘enlightened’...

The Bonnie Lea Book Club met to discuss Mustafa Suleiman’s book The Coming Wave. We began our discussion with a question on why did we...

Our book club organized our review by concentrating on the highlights of most of its 10 chapters. The content was so rich that we only...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons is a story about forces within a small Russian town beset by conflict and intrigue, while showcasing...

The Bonnie Lea Book Club met with a full house for Beverly Gage’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, G-man, the Story of J. Edgar Hoover and...

Agent Storm is the story of a Danish man's personal transformation from street thug, to jihadist, to secret agent for Danish, British,...

The Bonnie Lea Book Club convened to discuss a book on the social and economic revolution happening today, entitled Machine Platform...