Book Club Meetings - Bimonthly - Hosted in private homes - Everyone is welcome!!
July 2nd Book Club Pick (2025)
July 2nd, Wednesday 6-8 pm
Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House by Dana Millbank
Location: Patti Schrichfield’s home in Cameron Park
"From the halls of Congress, New York Times bestselling author Dana Milbank exposes the chaotic, incompetent and dysfunctional state of the current Republican House—a confederacy of dunces, united by paranoia and conspiracy theories, blundering from one self-inflicted crisis to the next."
Please let Patti know if you plan to attend. Location address disclosed after you RSVP.
pschrichfield@sbcglobal.net - 530-409-2512
May Book Club Pick (2025)
May 7th, 2025 - 6PM to 8PM
What will you sacrifice for the truth?
Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: President Duterte.
Now, hounded by the state, she has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and a potential 100+ years behind bars to prepare for—while she stands trial for speaking the truth.
How to Stand Up to a Dictator is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation—a heinous web of cause and effect—that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes.
Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Maria Ressa's urgent cry for us to wake up and hold the line, before it is too late.
Please let Patti Schrichfield know if you plan to attend. Location disclosed after you RSVP.
pschrichfield@sbcglobal.net - 530-409-2512
March Book Club Pick (2025)
March 5th, 2025 - 6PM to 8PM
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World is a book by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu published in 2016 by Cornerstone Publishers. In this nonfiction, the authors discuss the challenges of living a joyful life.
Please let Patti know if you plan to attend.
Patti Schrichfield
pschrichfield@sbcglobal.net - 530-409-2512
January Book Club Pick (2025)
The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963 -- 1973 by Clara Bingham.
Link to buy on Amazon:
Please join us for a Dem Women’s book club get together on Wed., Jan. 8, at 6PM at the home of Patti Schrichfield in Cameron Park. Please call, text, or email Patti below for her home address. Please bring a small snack for sharing. Beverages will be provided.
The book is The Method by Clara Bingham. It is an easy read and most of the names you will recognize as many have been prominent in the women’s liberation news for years. It is kind of an inside review of how far we have come in making America recognize the equality of women in every aspect of life – but how far we still have to go to reach our goals. It will be a lively discussion, and that is the fun of being present! Please do plan to attend!
Bring some suggestions for our next book. There are so many new publications, but older books are easier to get and much cheaper. Any ideas are welcome!
Please let Patti know if you plan to attend.
Patti Schrichfield
pschrichfield@sbcglobal.net - 530-409-2512
September's Book Club Pick (2024)
Our next Book Club is Wednesday, September 25th - 6-8pm
THERE IS A SCHEME AFOOT.
“If that sounds dramatic, it should. It involves a decades long effort by a handful of corporate oligarchs to subvert American democracy by capturing the Supreme Court and making it their Court, not our Court. It’s happening right under our noses, and it puts at risk one of our most cherished American principles: equal justice under law.” This is the first paragraph in the Introduction to our chosen book for our next meeting: “The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court” by Sheldon Whitehouse and Jennifer Mueller.
Jane Mayer, author of the national best seller Dark Money says: “There’s no senator (Sheldon Whitehouse, D – Rhode Island) I can think of who’s done more sleuthing to figure out the money trail in American politics, particularly as it affects the courts.”
This is a fascinating book of history and mystery, and it shakes the money tree where all the billionaires hide. I hope you will read it. I hope you will come to our next book club meeting and talk about what you learned and what can be done to change this dreadful situation, which has been years in the making thanks to Leonard Leo and the Heritage Foundation and his billionaire “friends”.
Please order the newer version with the 2023 Preface by Sheldon Whitehouse, available at Barnes and Noble for $19 in soft cover. It is probably available online too.
If anyone wants to host our meeting on Sept. 25, that would be so nice. Just let me know.
Pat Kriz
916-933-0850 home
916-802-1388 cell
July's Book Club Pick (2024)
Our next Book Club is Wednesday, July 24 - 6-8pm
"Call Me American: A Memoir" by Abdi Mor Nor Iftin
Patti Schrichfield has offered to host our group at 6PM on Wed., July 24th, at her home in Cameron Park just off Meder Road.
Please RSVP to Pat by July 21st if you plan to attend, and the address will be sent to you.
If you attend, please bring a light snack to share. Finger food is best. We will provide beverages, and try to carpool if you can manage. We do not plan to provide Zoom for the meeting as it takes a lot more effort to make this available and depends on attendance.
Hope to see you and please bring ideas for our next book which we will discuss on Wed., Sept. 25th
Pat Kriz, Chair
DWEDC Book Club
Email Pat to get on the book club email list, or to RSVP.
916-933-0850 home
916-802-1388 cell
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