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...

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

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...

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,...

Without Precedent, by Joel Richard Paul, was the story of Chief Justice John Marshall, our country's most influential and most prolific...

“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...

Our discussion of Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life - an Antidote to Chaos began with criticism of his verbose prose and slightly...

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

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...

Jim Stone's book about five problems that challenge America, and his solutions, resonated with the whole group. Only half of Bonnie Lea...

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...

The nominator for this book was Jeff C, so he led our discussion. He began by asking everyone what we personally and professionally...

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...

Our discussion on Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill began around Dr. Joseph Warren, a central figure in Boston's evolution as the hot...

A Climate of Crisis was a good read, providing perspective on the dialogue and evolution of environmental progress in the United States. ...

This book was chosen mostly on the strength of its many favorable reviews. Geoff had proposed the book, and found it intense and...

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...

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...

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...

Moveable Feast contains the theme the Hemingway writes the truth. Write one page of truth and discard 90 pages of crap. The quality of...

Red Notice is the story of big finance in Russia, by Bill Browder, founder and driving force behind Hermitage Capital, a uniquely...

Our discussion of Sergei Medvedev’s book about Russia was interesting and timely. The book itself is an indictment of the leadership and...

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

The Bonnie Lea Book Club met to discuss the story of Theranos, a Silicon Valley darling which had attracted over $900 million in...

This book is a biography of cancer, the history of its treatments, and the incredible people who dedicated their lives to understanding...

War of the whales was a book that validated our book club’s desire to read books that we would not ordinarily read on our own. This...

Benghazi – 13 Hours was a good book after the much heavier Capital in the 21st Century, and we all enjoyed the break from that previous...

Capital in the 21st Century is a well researched and documented macroeconomic analysis about the trend toward greater concentration of...

Joel had recommended this book for Bonnie Lea Book Club so he led our discussion. He began by citing author Michael Schellenberger’s...

Brunellesci’s Dome, a chronicle of the building of il Duomo, Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Italy, got a thumbs up from all attendees...

The Bonnie Lea Book Club embraced a book fitting for a quick but memorable spring read. The core theme was Julian Van Winkle and his...

Our book club explored the classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. This review will chronicle our book club's...

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