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Ideas From Life


Anna Karenina - a review
“To judge anything, you need to know everything. But we cannot know everything…”.
Nov 25


Super Agers by Eric Topol - a review
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.
Oct 25


The Wolves of K Street (book review)
Politicians meanwhile are always laser focused on the next election. And that means money.
Jul 22


North Woods - book club review
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.
Apr 11


Beloved - a book review
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
Jan 18
Lords of Easy Money - book review
Baby boomers have enjoyed a financial fixture of declining interest rates for about forty years. Declining interest rates drive down the...
Jan 13


Boyd - the story of an American disruptor
Boyd the book Bill had recommended Boyd , published in 2002, based on a recommendation through his wife, maybe related to their son’s...
Nov 14, 2024


The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Book review)
the mental health pandemic our young people have been struck by is worse than anything we have faced as a free society.
Jul 27, 2024


The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky - my review
Dostoevsky has a well founded reputation as a giant of western literature for his use of the novel to explore emergent ‘enlightened’...
May 16, 2024
The Coming Wave - book review
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...
May 3, 2024
The Israel Palestinian Conflict - 4th edition – a review
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...
Jan 24, 2024
Demons – and why this century and a half old classic resonates today
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons is a story about forces within a small Russian town beset by conflict and intrigue, while showcasing...
Jan 4, 2024
G-man: Hoover and the Making of the American Century - book club review
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...
Oct 19, 2023
Agent Storm - by Morten Storm with Mark Cruickshank and Tim Lister
Agent Storm is the story of a Danish man's personal transformation from street thug, to jihadist, to secret agent for Danish, British,...
May 25, 2023
Machine Platform Crowd
The Bonnie Lea Book Club convened to discuss a book on the social and economic revolution happening today, entitled Machine Platform...
May 25, 2023
Saving Lives in Their Finest Hour
The Finest Hour is the story of one of the greatest rescue operations in the history of the US Coast Guard, and it happened out of...
May 25, 2023
America’s War for the Greater Middle East - by Andrew Bacevich
The book America’s War for the Greater Middle East is a four decade chronology of America's military involvement in the Middle East,...
May 25, 2023
Without Precedent - the Story of John Marshall
Without Precedent, by Joel Richard Paul, was the story of Chief Justice John Marshall, our country's most influential and most prolific...
May 25, 2023
Our Man in Charleston - by Christopher Dickey
“Our Man in Charleston” is a story of Britain's consul in Charleston, South Carolina in the several years before, and into the War...
May 25, 2023
The Son - by Philipp Meyer
We all enjoyed this second book by Philipp Meyer: great writing, backed by deep research, and an ability to project interesting and...
May 25, 2023
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