One Man Book Club

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The Eagle’s Claw: Midway’s Historic Sea Battle

August 20, 2025
To Wake the Giant: Pearl Harbor Uncovered

August 20, 2025
R.F. Kuang’s Babel: Language, Colonialism, and Power

August 20, 2025
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

June 4, 2025
Understanding Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: A Mixed Review

June 3, 2025
The Remains of the Day

January 16, 2025
The Tsar of Love and Techno

September 13, 2024
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

December 7, 2023
Homecoming: You only think you’ve figured it out…

September 26, 2023
Whimbrel House: Magic? Mystery? Romance? Yes!

August 22, 2023
A Girl Called Samson: I’m not crying, you’re crying.

June 2, 2023
To Kill a Mockingbird: The Greatest?

May 2, 2023
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: It’s a time machine

February 1, 2023
The Secret Keeper: Kate Morton is a story weaver

August 26, 2022
The Help: The movie doesn’t count.

July 13, 2022
The Lost Shtetl: Mel Brooks x Fiddler on the Roof x Schindler’s List

March 31, 2022
A Tale of Two Cities: Come join the club!

February 28, 2022
A Book Club Guest Review of Beneath a Scarlet Sky

February 25, 2022
Where the Lost Wander: Love and Tragedy on the American Frontier

February 14, 2022
A Book Club Guest Review of Swords of Joseph

July 22, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of West with Giraffes

July 9, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of Double Eagle Double Cross

July 9, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of The Book of Lost Names

July 9, 2021
#TheDevilandtheDarkWater: Agatha Christie+Sherlock Holmes+1600’s Hygiene

April 21, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of Floating Twigs

April 13, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of Cold Sassy Tree

April 13, 2021
#WheretheCrawdadsSing: The Perfect Novel?

March 23, 2021
#AGentlemanInMoscow: 1/2 Boring. 1/2 Brilliant.

March 9, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of The Serafina Series

February 22, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of The Girl You Left Behind

February 19, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of The Other Side of the Stars

February 1, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of The Infinity Ring Series

January 26, 2021
A Book Club Guest Review of Orphan Train

January 22, 2021
#DeathsDoor: Did you know Edgar Allan Poe could time travel?

May 26, 2020
#TheKingdomofBack: To never be forgotten…

March 17, 2020
#GatesofFire: Gulp. Talk about changing the world…

July 17, 2019
#MyPlainJane: Jane Eyre + The Sixth Sense = The scratch for the itch you didn’t know you had

July 8, 2019
#MyLadyJane: Fixing history…and laughing about it!

June 26, 2019
#TheLakeHouse: Kate Morton has it figured out

August 23, 2018
#AnUrchinofMeans (The Baker Street Series, #1): This Book is worth reading

January 17, 2018
Beneath a Scarlet Sky: And the Truth Shall…

October 16, 2017
#CheatingDeath: Here’s an author you should be reading…

January 23, 2017
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

June 27, 2016
Waging War (The Immortal Descendants #4)

January 26, 2016
Tempting Fate (The Immortal Descendants #2)

March 9, 2015
Marking Time (The Immortal Descendants, #1)

March 3, 2015
All the Light We Cannot See

November 19, 2014
City of Thieves

July 2, 2014
The Book Thief

February 10, 2012
11/22/1963

January 10, 2012
The Forgotten Garden

November 26, 2011
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

January 19, 1988
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

January 11, 1988