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Ideas From Life
A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises
A Summertime Hemmingway Double Header A Moveable Feast contains the theme the Hemingway writes the truth. Write one page of truth and...
May 25, 2023
Story of a Secret State: My report to the world, by Jan Karski
This book is the autobiographical account of Jan Karski, young intellectual, optimistic young soldier, prisoner to the Russians /...
May 25, 2023
Rogue Heroes - the story of the SAS, the first 'special forces"
Rogue Heroes is the non-fiction historical accounting of the development of the world’s first “special forces”, the British SAS (Special...
May 25, 2023
Dynasty by Tom Holland
This book was a slog, and only began to flow with the arrival of Caligula past the book's halfway mark. Nero seemed to be Holland's...
May 25, 2023
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
This book was the story of the emergence of electricity in America, centered around the three most important characters in its nascent...
May 25, 2023
12 Rules of Life - by Jordan Peterson
Our discussion of Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life - an Antidote to Chaos began with criticism of his verbose prose and slightly...
May 25, 2023
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers provided fertile ground for our April meeting, but our discussion trended toward validating our respective...
May 25, 2023
People Who Eat Darkness
This was a book that met one of our book club’s central tenets: it was a book we would never pick up and read on our own. This was the...
May 25, 2023
5 Easy Theses by Jim Stone
Jim Stone's book about five problems that challenge America, and his solutions, resonated with the whole group. Only half of Bonnie Lea...
May 25, 2023
Educated - A memoir
Mal had recommended our book selection for April, so he began our discussion with the question, ‘What’s the allure?’ Why is this book so...
May 25, 2023
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
The Bonnie Lea Book Club tackled a book about the world’s most influential religion, examining how it grew as an offshoot out of a minor...
May 25, 2023
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
The nominator for this book was Jeff C, so he led our discussion. He began by asking everyone what we personally and professionally...
May 25, 2023
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Disagree on Politics and Religion
We had most members of the book club join us for this topical and timely discussion of Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Righteous Mind:Why Good...
May 25, 2023
Bunker Hill
Our discussion on Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill began around Dr. Joseph Warren, a central figure in Boston's evolution as the hot...
May 25, 2023
A Climate of Crisis - Patrick Allit
A Climate of Crisis was a good read, providing perspective on the dialogue and evolution of environmental progress in the United States. ...
May 25, 2023
Preparation for the Next Life
This book was chosen mostly on the strength of its many favorable reviews. Geoff had proposed the book, and found it intense and...
May 25, 2023
Younger Next Year
If you are a reasonably active 40 or 50-year-old person, then this is the book for you. But allow me to tell my personal story first. For...
May 25, 2023


The Network State
Our book club’s core principle is that we read books that we would not otherwise go out and read on our own, together. The Network State...
May 15, 2023
Paris - by Edward Rutherford
We met to discuss the novel Paris with most of us having read New York, London, and Sarum. Comparisons to these novels were useful in our...
Mar 6, 2023
A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises: A Summertime Hemmingway Double Header
Moveable Feast contains the theme the Hemingway writes the truth. Write one page of truth and discard 90 pages of crap. The quality of...
Mar 6, 2023
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