Lazy Book Club with Ida Public LIbrary: Recent Episodes
Jacklyn
Welcome to Lazy Book Club: the only book club you can fit in your pocket!Join your host and a guest as we discuss a book together for your listening pleasure. Read the book ahead of time and listen as we try to offer greater insights into the book. The best part is, this book club can "meet" any time you want to listen!
Join us in an episode discussing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "If I Were a Man" with Karina Diaz a Phd student who recently presented on the stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "The Yellow Wallpaper" Is a story accounting the life of a woman slowly descending into insanity as her husband prescribes her a rest cure and keeps her in a room with yellow wallpaper.
Join Jacklyn and Ethan in talking about "The Song Of Achilles"
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young Germans who enlist in World War I after being captivated by slogans of patriotism and honor. It is narrated by the protagonist, Paul Baumer, who is 20 years old. The young men soon learn that the romanticized version of war that was described to them is nothing like the battlefields they encounter. Join Jacklyn and Bradley Stott in the discussion of this amazing book