by Donald Wilms Donald Wilms is a teacher at the READ Center and a Past President of the Chesterfield County (VA) Education Association. He did the research and moderated our
Category: Book Clubs
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier – A Review by Ann Day
Many of us love a good mystery. Daphne du Maurier never disappoints her readers with her trove of mystery works. The Scapegoat is no exception. Best known as the
Alice Monro said she “Wanted to Do Something Great, Great the Way Men Do”
Written by Anne Sutton – Co-Coordinator of the Classic Book Club (Richmond, VA) Alice Munro was 82 years old when she won The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. This
Dead Fly in the Pudding: Classic Book Club Savors the Taste of All the King’s Men
By Murray Ellison – with Commentary from Author, James Evans “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the diddie to
Don Quixote is a Fiction of His Own Making
Written by Eric Holzwarth* We can easily imagine the shaded hues that sketched the landscape in the pre-dawn hours when Don Quixote first rode forth, newly christened, determined to revive
Confinement and the Social Stratification of Women in Jane Eyre*
Many of us now voluntarily sequestered or under forced confinement due to the worldwide Corona Virus, Thus, it may be a good time to read some books that help us
How the Tortoise Shell Got Cracked – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Murray leads The Classic Book Club in Midlothian, Virginia, where we recently discussed this book* The novel takes its title from a verse in the poem “The Second Coming”
Race Matters: Coming of Age in William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished
By Mary Evans Ramsey – A Review of Our First Friday Classic Book Study of William Faulkner’s, The Unvanquished* Let me begin by saying that William Faulkner’s work can
The Ghost of Adam Trask in Steinbeck’s East of Eden
“Young Adam was always an obedient child. Something in him shrank from violence, from contention, from the silent shrieking tensions that can rip at a house.” In this blog on
