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SUMMARY:Literary Libations February Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers for Literary Libations\, a free monthly book club hosted in the Parlor Room at The Study at Morrison House. Taking place one Wednesday each month\, this gathering offers a relaxed and welcoming space to dive into your next read—whether it’s a timeless classic\, a trending release\, or the latest must-read from BookTok. \nSip on themed cocktails and mocktails inspired by the book of the month\, pair them with small plates from The Study’s bar menu\, or linger after the discussion to indulge in a seasonal tasting menu. \nLiterary Libations isn’t a formal\, structured discussion—it’s a cozy salon for mingling\, exchanging ideas\, and diving into new worlds together. Conversation starters and thoughtful prompts will be scattered around the room\, but the conversation is all yours to shape. \nBOOK OF THE MONTH: Buckeye by Patrick Ryan\nIn Bonhomie\, Ohio\, a stolen moment of passion\, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe\, binds Cal Jenkins\, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it\, to Margaret Salt\, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife\, Becky\, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead\, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband\, Felix\, is serving on a Navy cargo ship\, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. \nLater\, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom\, a secret grows in Bonhomie—but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America\, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families\, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold. \nSweeping yet intimate\, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit\, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.
URL:https://morrisonhouse.com/event/literary-libations-february-book-club/
LOCATION:Morrison House Hotel\, 116 S Alfred Street\, Alexandria\, VA\, 22314\, United States
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SUMMARY:Literary Libations January Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers for Literary Libations\, a free monthly book club hosted in the Parlor Room at The Study at Morrison House. Taking place one Wednesday each month\, this gathering offers a relaxed and welcoming space to dive into your next read—whether it’s a timeless classic\, a trending release\, or the latest must-read from BookTok. \nSip on themed cocktails and mocktails inspired by the book of the month\, pair them with small plates from The Study’s bar menu\, or linger after the discussion to indulge in a seasonal tasting menu. \nLiterary Libations isn’t a formal\, structured discussion—it’s a cozy salon for mingling\, exchanging ideas\, and diving into new worlds together. Conversation starters and thoughtful prompts will be scattered around the room\, but the conversation is all yours to shape. \n \n\n\nBOOK OF THE MONTH: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston\nThe epic tale of Janie Crawford\, whose quest for identity takes her on a journey during which she learns what love is\, experiences life’s joys and sorrows\, and come home to herself in peace. Her passionate story prompted Alice Walker to say\, “There is no book more important to me than this one.” \nWhen first published in 1937\, this novel about a proud\, independent black woman was generally dismissed by male reviewers. Out of print for almost thirty years\, but since its reissue in paperback edition by the University of Illionois Press in 1978\, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature. \nWith haunting sympathy and piercing immediacy\, Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawford’s evolving selfhood through three marriages. Light-skinned\, long-haired\, dreamy as a child\, Janie grows up expecting better treatment than she gets until she meets Tea Cake\, a younger man who engages her heart and spirit in equal measure and gives her the chance to enjoy life without being a man’s mule or adornment. Though Jaine’s story does not end happily\, it does draw to a satisfying conclusion. Janie is one black woman who doesn’t have to live lost in sorrow\, bitterness\, fear\, or foolish romantic dreams\, instead Janie proclaims that she has done “two things everbody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God\, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.” \n\n\n \n\n\n 
URL:https://morrisonhouse.com/event/literary-libations-january-book-club/
LOCATION:Morrison House Hotel\, 116 S Alfred Street\, Alexandria\, VA\, 22314\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calendar of Events,Literary
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SUMMARY:Literary Libations | December Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers for Literary Libations\, a free monthly book club hosted in the Parlor Room at The Study at Morrison House. Taking place one Wednesday each month\, this gathering offers a relaxed and welcoming space to dive into your next read—whether it’s a timeless classic\, a trending release\, or the latest must-read from BookTok. \nSip on themed cocktails and mocktails inspired by the book of the month\, pair them with small plates from The Study’s bar menu\, or linger after the discussion to indulge in a seasonal tasting menu. \nLiterary Libations isn’t a formal\, structured discussion—it’s a cozy salon for mingling\, exchanging ideas\, and diving into new worlds together. Conversation starters and thoughtful prompts will be scattered around the room\, but the conversation is all yours to shape. \nBOOK OF THE MONTH: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan\nIt is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas\, Bill Furlong\, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning\, while delivering an order to the local convent\, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. \nAn international bestseller\, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope\, quiet heroism\, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.
URL:https://morrisonhouse.com/event/literary-libations-december-book-club/
LOCATION:Morrison House Hotel\, 116 S Alfred Street\, Alexandria\, VA\, 22314\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calendar of Events,Literary
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SUMMARY:Literary Libations | November Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers for Literary Libations\, a free monthly book club hosted in the Parlor Room at The Study at Morrison House. Taking place one Wednesday each month\, this gathering offers a relaxed and welcoming space to dive into your next read—whether it’s a timeless classic\, a trending release\, or the latest must-read from BookTok. \nSip on themed cocktails and mocktails inspired by the book of the month\, pair them with small plates from The Study’s bar menu\, or linger after the discussion to indulge in a seasonal tasting menu. \nLiterary Libations isn’t a formal\, structured discussion—it’s a cozy salon for mingling\, exchanging ideas\, and diving into new worlds together. Conversation starters and thoughtful prompts will be scattered around the room\, but the conversation is all yours to shape. \nBOOK OF THE MONTH: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut\nSlaughterhouse-Five\, an American classic\, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden\, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction\, science fiction\, autobiography\, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim\, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had\, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut\, he experiences time travel\, or coming “unstuck in time.” \nAn instant bestseller\, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature\, a reputation that only strengthened over time\, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess\, the genre-bending inventiveness\, the frank violence\, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. \nFifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War\, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment\, PTSD\, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant\, darkly humorous\, and profoundly affecting as ever\, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.
URL:https://morrisonhouse.com/event/literary-libations-november-book-club/
LOCATION:Morrison House Hotel\, 116 S Alfred Street\, Alexandria\, VA\, 22314\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calendar of Events,Literary
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SUMMARY:Poe in Alexandria
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss an unforgettable evening with America’s earliest master of the macabre – Edgar Allan Poe! Actor David Keltz returns to The Lyceum’s lecture hall to re-create Poe’s visit to Virginia in 1849\, shortly before his death. This year’s performance will include short stories\, poems\, musings\, and literary criticism. Mr. Keltz’s performance has been lauded by The Poe House and Museum in Baltimore\, The Poe Museum in Richmond\, and the Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia. Reservations strongly recommended. Doors at 7:15 p.m.\, performance begins at 8 p.m. Wine and beer bar will be available before the show (credit and cash accepted).
URL:https://morrisonhouse.com/event/poe-in-alexandria/
LOCATION:Alexandria History Museum at the Lyceum\, 201 S Washington St\, Alexandria\, VA\, 22314\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calendar of Events,Fall,Literary
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SUMMARY:Literary Libations | October Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers for Literary Libations\, a free monthly book club hosted in the Parlor Room at The Study at Morrison House. Taking place one Wednesday each month\, this gathering offers a relaxed and welcoming space to dive into your next read—whether it’s a timeless classic\, a trending release\, or the latest must-read from BookTok. \nSip on themed cocktails and mocktails inspired by the book of the month\, pair them with small plates from The Study’s bar menu\, or linger after the discussion to indulge in a seasonal tasting menu. \nLiterary Libations isn’t a formal\, structured discussion—it’s a cozy salon for mingling\, exchanging ideas\, and diving into new worlds together. Conversation starters and thoughtful prompts will be scattered around the room\, but the conversation is all yours to shape. \nBOOK OF THE MONTH: North Woods by Daniel Mason\nA sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England\, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring\, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony\, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants . An English soldier\, destined for glory\, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine\, only to succumb to envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave\, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter\, a conman\, a stalking panther\, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods\, they come to realize that the dark\, raucous\, beautiful past is very much alive.Traversing cycles of history\, nature\, and even literature\, North Woods shows the myriad\, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another\, across time\, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year\, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless how do we live on\, even after we’re gone?
URL:https://morrisonhouse.com/event/literary-libations-october-book-club/
LOCATION:Morrison House Hotel\, 116 S Alfred Street\, Alexandria\, VA\, 22314\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calendar of Events,Literary
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