Jun 14, 2021
How to Try to Get Away with Murder
This episode comes with a content warning!
This section of “An American Tragedy” (and our podcast discussion) deals with unprotected sex and the search for abortion after unplanned pregnancy in the 1920s. There is also discussion of a pre-planned murder. So if that isn’t something that would be healthy for you to listen to, I suggest skipping this episode – and probably this book.
Episode Links
“An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser
Reading
- Pete - DVDs “Logan” and “Blackcoat’s Daughter”
- Jennie - “She Who Became the Sun” by Shelley Parker-Chan
- Megan – “The wicked king: Folk of the Air Series, Book 2” by Holly Black and “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” by Angela Duckworth
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If you’d like to make a suggestion for future reading send us your recommendations on the Big Book Club Podcast page on the Arlington Public Library website.
Upcoming Summer Books:
Our July 19 book will be “The Big Sleep,” by Raymond Chandler, followed by Terry Pratchet’s “The Wee Free Men” for August 2.