by Renee Paolino | Nov 28, 2023 | Announcements
On Tuesday, December 5, our Great Books group will wrestle with the many questions that arise from reading / viewing Macbeth, Shakespeare’s masterpiece of tragedy. You can’t miss this session; this is a chance to delve into the undeniable brilliance of the Bard. Where...
by Renee Paolino | Oct 26, 2023 | Announcements
St. Benedict’s The Rule, while not well known by most readers, is a fascinating little book. This group has read it twice before: in 1951 and 2007. The Rule provides precepts for living a simple life — a simple life but not necessarily an easy life.Why would we in the...
by Renee Paolino | Oct 12, 2023 | Announcements
This Tuesday, October 17, 7:00 p.m. will be our first ever discussion of works of Edgar Allan Poe. The short stories are The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter — two very different stories with the same pair of protagonists. We can trace some of the...
by Renee Paolino | Oct 5, 2023 | Announcements, Blog
Great Books is a conversation; it is not a lecture. I’ve seemed to have forgotten that fact. For at least the last 20 years, I have allowed the sessions of Great Books of Greater Cleveland to open with a mini lecture comprising background information on the writer and...
by Renee Paolino | Sep 19, 2023 | Announcements, Blog
In two weeks we gather together (in-person or virtually) to discuss the epic novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. This mid-nineteenth century adventure story is incredibly long and detailed. So many characters! I would argue that the plot itself is...
