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

Bill had recommended Boyd , published in 2002, based on a recommendation through his wife, possibly related to their son’s being an Army...

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...

I recently returned from our first trip to Turkey, and came away with great memories, and new appreciation of Turkey and the Turkish...

Looking back on the Teens, or the Tens, gives perspective on an incredible decade. It began deep in the throes of the financial disaster...

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

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...

The book America’s War for the Greater Middle East is a four decade chronology of America's military involvement in the Middle East,...

“Our Man in Charleston” is a story of Britain's consul in Charleston, South Carolina in the several years before, and into the War...

We all enjoyed this second book by Philipp Meyer: great writing, backed by deep research, and an ability to project interesting and...

A Summertime Hemmingway Double Header A Moveable Feast contains the theme the Hemingway writes the truth. Write one page of truth and...

This book is the autobiographical account of Jan Karski, young intellectual, optimistic young soldier, prisoner to the Russians /...

Rogue Heroes is the non-fiction historical accounting of the development of the world’s first “special forces”, the British SAS (Special...

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...

This book was the story of the emergence of electricity in America, centered around the three most important characters in its nascent...

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers provided fertile ground for our April meeting, but our discussion trended toward validating our respective...

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...

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...