by Renee Paolino | Jun 5, 2024 | Announcements, Blog
Yes it’s here — Great Books of Greater Cleveland (GBofGC) presents the reading list for 2024-2025. This is our 79th year, and we open the year with an undisputed, worldwide classic. We will discuss Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece, on September 17, 2024....
by Renee Paolino | Apr 11, 2024 | Announcements, Blog
Long Day’s Journey into Night, written in the 1950s, strongly resonates with us today, and will continue to do so for future generations. We discuss O’Neill’s play, widely considered his magnum opus, this Tuesday, April 16, 7:00 p.m. This drama which takes place in a...
by Renee Paolino | Mar 21, 2024 | Announcements
The Lysis assignment was the most challenging reading of the year for me. Participating in the discussion was like entering a marathon and failing to complete the race. But I still felt miles from the starting line. By the end of our discussion I grasped a good deal...
by Renee Paolino | Feb 7, 2024 | Announcements, Blog
Great Books of Greater Cleveland is well known for discussing the classics in fiction and nonfiction. Yet even in its earliest years — the 1940s and 1950s — this group actively sought to include writers of classics from outside the conventional “Great Books of the...
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...
