Virtual Book Group
2023 Reading Selections
First Thursday of every EVEN month at 11:30 a.m. on ZOOM, link just below.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88403047762
Event details will be found on the CALENDAR
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First of two books for June – July
| June – July 2023 | Discuss on August 3 |
| Title | Save Your Brain – Five things you must do to keep your mind young and sharp |
| Author | Paul David Nussbaum |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
| Genre ( if known) | Self Help |
| Expert advice on how to ward off memory loss and dementia. Beginning with a diagnostic quiz to help you determine your overall brain health, and ending with meal plans and recipes for a brain boosting diet, Save Your Brain is an easy-to-follow comprehensive guide to getting the brain in the best shape possible, and keeping it there-for life! |
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Second of two books for June – July
| June – July 2023 | Discuss on August 3 |
| Title | The Mother Tongue – English and how it got that way |
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| Publication date | 1990 |
| Number of pages | 245 |
| Genre ( if known) | Language/Humor |
| With dazzling wit and astonishing insight. Bestselling author Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language. | |
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| Aug – Sept 2023 | Discuss on October 5 |
| Title | The only Woman in the Room |
| Author | Marie Benedict |
| Publication date | 2019 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Genre ( if known) | Historical Fiction |
| Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty. Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich’s plans while at her husband’s side and understood more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis and revolutionize modern communication…if anyone would listen to her. A powerful book based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist, The Only Woman in the Room is a masterpiece that celebrates the many women in science that history has overlooked. |
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| Oct – Nov 2023 | Discuss on December 7 |
| Title | After The Bomb |
| Author | Chuck Kostow PGE |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
| Genre ( if known) | Fiction |
| A novel by ex-PGE engineer, Chuck Kostow Where did our myths come from? How did our different cultures, languages and customs develop? What would happen if a world-wide calamity occurred which destroyed most life on earth? How would people survive? What would be left? What type of society would the survivors build? What would the world be like three hundred years later? | |
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| Dec – Jan 2024 | Discuss on Feb 1, 2024 |
| Title | Killers of the Flower Moon and the Birth of the FBI |
| Author | David Grann |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Genre ( if known) | Non-Fiction/History |
| In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning. | |