Although I have yet to deliver an unqualified rave of a book in this blog (except for the occasional children’s book), I swear I’m not a book snob. To prove this, I will now make a confession that could forever destroy my credibility in certain circles: I enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love. Though it’s been […]
Category Archives: Book Club
January
13
Lettered Ladies Book Club: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
posted by Laura
I still can’t believe that Nina Sankovitch did what she did. Reading a 250-300 page book every day — and then writing about it! — for an entire year seems frankly impossible to me. Truly it does. Lettered Lady Kate could totally do this. She sacrifices no comprehension at all for her enviable speed, which […]
December
23
Lettered Ladies Book Club: My take on Tolstoy, the Purple Chair, and the Act of Reading
posted by Kate Krueger
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch To read one book every day for a year: that is the kind of goal I can get behind. As a professor, I read for hours every day, but those hours are usually scattered upon student papers, historical and theoretical works, and […]
November
25
Lettered Ladies Book Club: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
posted by Stacy
A few months ago – tanned and relaxed from our respective summers and giddy from the fun of our new blog – the Lettered Ladies decided to embark on an adventure together. Though the six of us now live in five different states and see each other only rarely, we knew that we could be […]
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