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Reclaiming Our Brains Without Losing Our Minds
Some Hows and Whys of a Reading Group
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2013
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Reclaiming Our Brains without Losing Our Minds relates the story of a group of women in the mid-sized town of Yakima, Washington, who form a reading group in dedicated pursuit of “the best that has been thought and said” in literature. Over the course of twenty-nine years, the women hone their minds, exchange ideas, and discover a sense of closeness and community that extends beyond the page. Featuring detailed accounts of the recruitment process, strategies for meetings, and the methods of choosing the featured texts, this book is a vital tool for anyone interested in starting a reading group or rekindling a love of literature.
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2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6237-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-6238-3
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
212
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
INTRODUCTION No access
1 We Become a Reading Group: How and Why No access
2 The Kind of Books We Read and the Way We Choose Them No access
3 From Lunch to Lecture: Why Do We Keep Coming Back? No access
4 Mutations of the Novel Over Time: From Boccaccio’s Decameron to Lessing’s The Golden Notebook No access
5 From Poem to Novel: Dante Then and Now—The Inferno and The Dante Conspiracy No access
6 Verisimilitude in the Historical Novel: Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed No access
7 Every Novel Has a Clock: Reeds in the Wind, The House by the Medlar Tree, and The Leopard No access
8 Looking at the Invisible with Italo Calvino No access
9 Life is Short but Long on Zest in Stendhal’s Charterhouse of Parma No access
10 Buddenbrooks: The Ordinary Novel No access
11 No Rest Cure for Readers on the Magic Mountain No access
12 On Holiday with Felix Krull No access
13 Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse No access
14 Sholokhov’s Quiet Flows the Don: A Novel of War and Peace No access
15 Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Learning to Want the Inexhaustible No access
16 A Doris Lessing Debut: The Grass Is Singing, and We Sing With It No access
17 Getting What We Want or Wanting What We Get: Does J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Have a Happy Ending? No access
18 Unlived Lives and Our Roles in Perpetrating Them No access
19 “I can’t see where I am going. My life finished. It spoil. It spoil”: V. S. Naipaul’s Vision of survivors in Post-Colonial Worlds No access
20 Well Lived Lives and the Costs They Exact: Guy De Maupassant and Isak Dinesen No access
21 Emigrants in “The Golden Land” No access
22 Emigrant or Immigrant: A Challenge for Giants No access
23 The Costs of Building the Soria Moria Castle No access
24 The [Tainted] Vision of Emma Blau No access
25 From Jyoti to Jasmine, Jase, Jane, and Jase Again: A Journey of Transformations No access
26 Self-Help and Other-Help: A Means to an End No access
27 More Responses to Our Study of Immigrant Novels No access
28 Migrants in Search of Kinder Suns No access
29 Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Novel of Homecoming No access
Appendix 1: Thursday Readers by Correspondence No access Pages 197 - 200
Appendix 2: The Books We Have Read No access Pages 201 - 210
