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Elise
May 15, 20244 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we're publishing this months' discussion questions here. All previous...
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Elise
Apr 30, 202411 min read
Cook Book Club: May's Ingredient Is Flour. The Country: France!
In our second year highlighting entire cultures, we will continue on with Europe as we started last Fall. Kits will include a little bit...
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Elise
Nov 15, 20235 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we're publishing this months' discussion questions here. All previous...
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Elise
Dec 13, 20227 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
This month's look back book club title is the controversial memoir, Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, with extra resources to decide on your own.
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Elise
Aug 2, 20223 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: 1984 by George Orwell
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Elise
Jul 22, 20223 min read
Writing Prompts to Get You Started #40
Welcome to the place that is dedicated to getting you writing (again?). Maybe you have absolutely no idea where to start but have always...
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Elise
May 18, 20228 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Elise
Mar 8, 20223 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Elise
Dec 28, 20214 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Elise
Nov 16, 20214 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: The Submission
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Elise
Jun 16, 20214 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Andy Kristensen
May 5, 20217 min read
Poem of the Week-May 5th, 2021-'It's Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends-'
Poet: Cortney Lamar Charleston Poet Background: Charleston, born in Harvey, IL, was raised on the South Side of Chicago and parts of the...
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Elise
Apr 6, 20217 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: Evicted by Matthew Desmond
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Elise
Mar 17, 20215 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Elise
Mar 9, 20214 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Andy Kristensen
Feb 19, 20215 min read
Essay Collection Review: 'Nothing is Wrong and Here Is Why' by Alexandra Petri
Title: Nothing Is Wrong And Here Is Why Author: Alexandra Petri Themes/Subjects: Satire, Politics, Socioeconomics, Race Relations,...
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Elise
Jan 12, 20213 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: The Accident by Chris Pavone
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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Andy Kristensen
Dec 16, 20205 min read
Poem of the Week - December 16th, 2020 - 'Testimony (For Tamir Rice 2002-2014) by Hafizah Geter
For this week’s poem of the week, I chose a poem from a collection released this year by an up-and-coming poet by the name of Hafizah...
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Andy Kristensen
Dec 11, 20206 min read
Book Review: What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era - Carlos Lozada
Short review: In What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, Carlos Lozada, the nonfiction book critic for the...
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Elise
Dec 1, 20203 min read
Book Club Discussion Questions: The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...
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