Book Club 2nd Edition

Although Teddy didn’t read the book (Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Revenge of the Tipping Point”) he joyfully welcomed everyone at today’s meeting.  Our book club reads a mix of fiction and non-fiction, and this was our first non-fiction in 2025.  We last read Malcolm Gladwell in 2020 (“Talking to Strangers“).

At 61 years old,  Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author and public speaker, who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.  He holds an Order of Canada (2011) and is a bestselling author of “narrative non-fiction” that examines the intersection of science and culture.

We started our meeting with a short You Tube PBS video of author Walter Isaacson interviewing  Gladwell about writing this book.  Our following discussion covered many examples of tipping points and ways to research/explore/understand & predict how small cultural or behavioural changes can escalate (or be deliberately manipulated ) to cause major societal impacts.  Not exactly light summer reading…but members generally felt positive about the book.

Submitted by Jane Currie