Lit Society: Books and Drama

Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington

Popular obsession with genealogy has some twisted roots. Let's talk about it - but first: An award-winning actress and gladiator receives a call from her parents on a routine afternoon. Their nervous hesitations let her know something is wrong. She turns her car around, drives to the home, and sits in the living of the people she's known all her life as mom and dad, her protectors, her withholding parents. There, in that familiar home, they share a secret that begins to unravel the loose ends of her childhood memories.
 
The Gladiator: Kerry Washington
The book: Thicker than Water by Kerry Washington
 
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Two men have formed an unlikely friendship, traveling from place to place, working toward one united dream: Owning their own ranch, a place in the world where they'll belong. This dream becomes their life's purpose, but it is as unreachable as happiness.  
 
The men: George and Lennie
The book: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
 
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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

In a memoir that is part true crime, part horror, a pop princess details how her life was taken captive by her family and how we all just stood by and watched.
 
The pop princess: Britney Spears
The book: The Woman in Me
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THEME OF THE WEEK SOURCES:
PBS: https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/20th-century-music/#:~:text=The%20most%20important%20influence%20on,within%20the%20bonds%20of%20slavery.
NBC NEWS: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/soundtrack-history-how-black-music-has-shaped-american-culture-through-n1258474
SMITHSONIAN: https://music.si.edu/story/musical-crossroads
 
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King Lear: Reason in Madness

SURPRISE! It's a bonus episode!!!
Today, we want to share an exciting preview of a Shakespeare podcast we think you will enjoy: Play On Podcasts! 
Each episode explores plays from Macbeth to A Midsummer Night's Dream in a way anyone can easily understand, created by some of America's most captivating playwrights, directors, and composers and performed by awarded stage and screen actors. This preview features the one and only Keith David. You know him from classic films such as Barbershop, Disney's Hercules and The Princess and the Frog, and Greenleaf, the television show Community and the list goes on. 
 
This is the first episode of Play On Podcasts!'s King Lear series, where Marcus Gardley sets his translation of King Lear in San Francisco. Here, anything can happen at any moment, and madness is barely constrained beneath the brittle veneer of gentrification. Infused with a jazz score that evolves in time with Lear's decline, this is a harrowing journey into the essence of life, death, love, and loss. 
 
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Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith

From the streets of Baltimore to the big screen, this actress has done a lot of living. You may have heard about her, read the blogs, and listened to the gossip revolving around her marriage to megastar Will Smith, but this is her life, her story, in her own words.
 
The actress/mother/daughter/friend/wife/mother: Jada Pinkett Smith
The book: Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
 
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The President’s Daughter Novel by Bill Clinton and James Patterson (Part 2)

The former president of the United States is on a manhunt for his daughter's killers. With the help of current and ex-military and foreign operatives, he will travel half the world for the most significant moment of his life. Will he be successful? Is more at stake in this mission than he realizes?
The book: This is PART 2 of The President's Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
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The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Bloodthirsty enemies of the state have kidnapped the president's daughter. With more enemies than friends in the white house and abroad, the commander-in-chief is unsure whom he can trust and if he'll ever bring his baby girl home safely.
 
The Book: The President's Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
 
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

In an intimate letter to his son, a father explains his identity and fears within the galaxy of America, its race invention, and the mythology it has produced.
 The father: Ta-Nehisi Coates 
The Book: BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME BY TA-NEHISI COATES
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*Businesses from our theme of the week:
Not Ok (App) by Hannah and Charlie Lucas: https://www.notokapp.com/
George Hofstetter: https://www.georgehofstettertechnologies.com/about
 Moziah and Mo's Bows: https://mosbowsmemphis.com/meet-moziah-1
Mr. Cory and Mr. Cory's Cookies: https://mrcoryscookies.com
 
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower

Willa Noble is on a quest to discover who killed the person dearest to her. She discovers nearly everyone she knows is a suspect. Dancing with danger, she soon finds herself in the nation's capital alongside her benevolent employer, a strange and mysterious woman invested in the case's outcome.
 
The benevolent employer: Emily Dickenson
The Book: Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower
 
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None of This Is True: A Novel by Lisa Jewell (SPOILER-FREE)

Alex and Josie are from different worlds. They've come to know each other after discovering they're "birthday twins." Alex's work inspires Josie, and she soon decides she wants Alex to document her transformation story as she steps out of her tainted world into a new life.
 
The book: None of This Is True: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
 
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