Welcome to Week 3 of December’s discussion of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, covering Parts 4 and 5. Part 4 Anna and Karenin are estranged, living in the same household but barely interacting. Karenin is so concerned with the optics of their household and relationship that he is willing to remain married to Anna as…
Anna Karenina, Week 2
Welcome to Week 2 of December’s discussion of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, covering Parts 1, 2, and 3. Part 1: This novel has two great opening lines. The epigraph pulls from both Deuteronomy and Romans verses “Vengeance is mine. I will repay.” We turn the page to chapter one and are hit with one…
Anna Karenina, Week 1
Welcome to December's online book club! This month we'll be discussing Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. If you have read the book and would also like to talk about it in person, the Xenia Community Library's Classics Book Club will be discussing the entire novel this Saturday, December 6th, from 3pm-4pm. To a lot of…
Killers of the Flower Moon, Week Four
Welcome back to Week Four discussing the final part of Killers of the Flower Moon; Chronicle Three, The Reporter. Chronicle Three opens with the author David Grann traveling to Pawhuska in 2012 and follows his various visits to the Osage Nation through 2015. When visiting a museum, Grann sees a large wall-sized photograph of prominent…
Killers of the Flower Moon, Week Three
Welcome back to week three discussing Chronicle Two: The Evidence Man in Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann. This section focuses greatly on Tom White, a former Texas Ranger who joined the Bureau in 1917. He and his younger brother J.C. “Doc” White were…
Killers of the Flower Moon, Week One
The Online Book Club, if you've never joined us before, is a book discussion group that takes place entirely online. Each week, I write a new blog post that talks about different aspects of the book, and you can interact directly with me and other readers by leaving your comments. Check back each week and…
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