Category: Book Notes

These are notes written for the Aptos Men’s Book Club and others about books I have read.

Upheaval
 by Jared Diamond

 June 15, 2020

Jared Diamond once again applies his prodigious intellect and vast experience to a series of interesting problems.

Edison
by Edmund Morris

 June 7, 2020

This biography of America’s greatest inventor is a great way to spend some reading hours.

That Old Ace in the Hole
by Annie Proulx

 May 25, 2020

I’ve made enough bad recommendations to the club that I have to forgive whoever recommended this book.

The Great Influenza
by John Barry

 May 18, 2020

Today’s Coronavirus pandemic bears an eerie and tragic resemblance to the 1918 Influenza.

The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth

 May 5, 2020

Philip Roth imagines a presidential campaign and victory by Charles Lindbergh that eerily resembles that of Donald J. Trump.