S9E120: Morning Time for Moms, Pt. 8, Twenty Years of The Literary Ladies Book Club
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Show Summary:
- On this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with Julie and Diana about their book discussion group, which recently celebrated its 20th year of meeting and reading together
- How the group started and how they choose new books for the group to read
- Some of the ways they make book discussion nights special
- How Diana and Julie divide up roles and duties to share the load
- A little about the format of each book club meeting
- Why the ladies stick to classic literature and biographies instead of contemporary novels
- Julie and Diana’s tips for running a similar book club with their friends
- Favorite Books read with the “Literary Ladies”
- East of Eden
- David Copperfield
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Good Earth
- Lord of the Flies
- Wuthering Heights
- War and Peace
- Persuasion
- Jane Eyre
- Dracula
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Bleak House
- Crime and Punishment
Books and Links Mentioned:
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Extraordinary Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by Ansel Adams
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
The Gift of Pain by Paul Brand and Philip Yancy
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Paul Brand and Philip Yancy
The Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Til We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Dracula Series on The Literary Life
Reading Dante’s Divine Comedy with Dr. Jason Baxter
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