Lit Society: Books and Drama

ReReading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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Y'all made us re-read The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Our first read and review, over three years ago, got us ratioed on YouTube. You called us names and battered us verbally for not liking the ending of this book. Our momma's always said, "Go with your first mind, baby," but we never listen. We are re-reading and re-reviewing the book. Hey, maybe we were unfair in our judgment last time. But perhaps we weren't. Hint - we were not. This book is bananas. Actually, it's tomato, tomato, tomato.
 
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Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

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On paper, Yinka has it all. She's Oxford-educated, beautiful, and constantly surrounded by friends and family. Still, one persistent question makes her examine her value and identity: "Where is your husband?"
Will Yinka find happiness, and will that happiness come in the form of marriage before she's too old and it's too late?
 
THE BOOK: Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
THE AUTHOR: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Part 2)

Last week, we saw young Dodo captured and tied to a bed in a sanitorium. He faces imminent danger constantly and can confide in only one friend, a young boy with cerebral palsy who shares the bed next to him. Will his family be able to rescue Dodo, or will he spend his final days in the hands of men with evil aims? Meanwhile, as Chona wastes away in a hospital bed due to a series of seizures, will the truth about her attack come to light? Let's find the answers in this week's review of the conclusion to The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Part 1)

The last community of Black Americans and Jewish immigrants in a tiny Pennsylvania town must risk their lives and livelihoods to save a deaf child from institutionalization and torture. Will they succeed against a system that squishes them all under society's boot? Or will an innocent boy be forced into a nightmarish existence?
 
The book The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
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All Her Little Secrets: A Novel by Wanda M. Morris

Ellice Littlejohn escaped her dead-end town while healing from her traumatic childhood to earn an Ivy League law degree and become a firm's only black corporate attorney. But she is full of secrets even her closest friends don't know. When she arrives at work one morning and finds the married man she's dating, a man who happens to be her boss, is dead, her secrets are revealed publicly, one by one, to her horror.
 
The book: All Her Little Secrets
The author: Wanda M. Morris
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The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

We must have Olympic fever because we begin with a brief history of the global games, which, from the beginning, always included swimming. Then, we dive into a small but mighty masterpiece by Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers. This is a book about routine. Comforting routine and unmindful routine. It is about what happens to us when we lose our routines. It is about who we are within the groups we form and who we are as individuals. It may also be about disruption and death. Judge for yourself.
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ReLIT: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

 We return next week with a new episode, but we'd never leave you without a dope book to discuss. So, here's another favorite episode from our past!  Hyde yo' kids! Hyde yo' wife! A young doctor allows his obsession with the duality of human nature to lead him down a path littered with lies, murder, and destruction. His name is Doctor Henry Jekyll; the book is The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You're listening to Lit Society. LET'S GET LIT!!! PS: This is our very first episode, released initially to a small group of test listeners in 2019. We like to think the quality of our show has improved since then, but this is still one of our favorite episodes! Enjoy! Find Alexis and Kari online: Instagram — www.instagram.com/litsocietypod/; Twitter — twitter.com/litsocietypod; Facebook — www.facebook.com/LitSocietyPod/; and our website www.LitSocietyPod.com. Get in on the conversation by using #booksanddrama.⁣ 

ReLIT: Educated by Tara Westover

Have you ever had to cut someone out of your life? No phone calls, texts, and your friends know not to invite both of you to the same event? This week, our theme is inspired by Educated, a memoir by Tara Westover.
Tara didn’t have a birth certificate until she was nine years old and she didn’t see her first classroom until the age of 17. It’s like The Village by M. Night Shyamalan, but interesting. . . Eventually, she’s forced to choose between a life without her family or most certain death by their hands. It got real, real quick. Travel with us from the peaks of Idaho to the halls of Cambridge in Educated.
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King Lear by William Shakespeare

A man's enemies will be persons of his own household. In one of the most tragic classics, we are forced to stare unflinchingly into a household descending into madness and chaos.
The play: King Lear
The playwright: William Shakespeare
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.." The most kafkaesque book we've ever read is about isolation, capitalism, and the meaning of family - we think.
The book: The Metamorphosis
The author: Franz Kafka
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