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Dinner with Anna Karenina

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Dinner with Anna Karenina by Gloria Goldreich released on Dec 27, 2005 is available now for purchase.

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2006

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Format
368 pages, Hardcover
Published
January 28, 2006 by MIRA
ISBN
9780778322276
ASIN
0778322270
Language
English

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Gloria Goldreich graduated from Brandeis University and did graduate work in Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a coordinator in the Department of Jewish Education at National Hadassah and served as Public Relations Director of the Baruch College of the City University of New York.
While still an undergraduate at Brandeis, she was a winner of the Seventeen Magazine short story contest where her first nationally published work appeared. Subsequently, her short fiction and critical essays have appeared in Commentary, McCalls, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle, Ms., Chatelaine, Hadassah Magazine and numerous other magazines and journals. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated.
She is the author of a series of children's books on women in the professions entitled What Can She Be? She has also written novels for young adults, Ten Traditional Jewish Stories, and she edited a prize-winning anthology A Treasury of Jewish Literature.
Her novel, Leah's Journey won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in 1979, and her second novel Four Days won the Federation Arts and Letters Award. Her other novels include Promised Land, This Burning Harvest, Leah's Children, West to Eden, Mothers, Years of Dreams and That Year of Our War. Her books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild and the Troll Book Club.
She has lectured throughout the United States and in Canada.
Gloria Goldreich is married to an attorney and is the mother of two daughters and a son, and the grandmother of six grandchildren.

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lv100sneaking
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March 26,2025
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The title intrigued me right away; I loved Anna Karenina! There was good character development in the first part of the book....and each woman added to the book discussions in a manner indicative of her personality and her insights into each author. The story began to disseminate at about the halfway point and the characters became quite predictable. The author could have been more in-depth in continuing each woman's story and could have added some unexpected twists ( note there was one exception).
Overall, I enjoyed the book, but probably would not recommend it for a book club.
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sundolphin
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March 26,2025
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What a concept: discuss the story of friends in the context of a book group and the books they are reading. It's a book-lover's dream! Well-written page turner.
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Aldo512
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March 26,2025
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not a great book. Not a horrible book. But not a great book. I think it wanted to be a smart literary book with the heart of the Sex and the City friendships. It wasn't. Maybe if I was more familiar with the books they'd read. However, it did make me want to join a book club.
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toto07
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March 26,2025
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This was among a number of "book club" novels I set out to read at one point and I thought it was one of the more well done. (Disclaimer: Anna Karenina is one of my favorite novels, so perhaps I was sympathetically predisposed to this book). Anyway, I thought it was an interesting take on the transformative effect of books, showing how individual club members really re-examined their lives and priorities as a result of experiencing an Anna Karenina like moment.
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Govihiv515
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Reinforced for me why women get together & connect emotionally. I so love being a woman!
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radiocrimson
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March 26,2025
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I like books about women. I like books about books. So it would stand to reason that I liked this novel about a group of fictious women and the books they discussed. And I did...mostly.

I liked the wide diversity within the book club. I liked that books were the thread binding these women together as friends. I liked the author's description of the women's good attributes mingled among their many faults. It made the characters real. Finally, I liked Gloria Goldreich's simple prose. It made immersing myself within the book easy.

What didn't I like? The overly simple plot could have used some beefing up. I also felt that for such a "lofty and superior bookclub", the actual books were under utilized. I would have liked to see more connection between the books read in bookclub to the characters and their outside lives.
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March 26,2025
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Six very different women in New York City, all lovers of literature, have formed a monthly book club that has been meeting for several years. At a September meeting after a summer break, Cynthia announces that she is divorcing her husband – that she put him out of the house the night before because she had found out something about him – but she won’t define the problem. As they go through their year of meetings, each woman confronts her own shortcomings and the group learns not only from the books they read, but from others in the group. They read Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, works by Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Plath, and Lolita and Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Little Women. The lives of the six women are worked well into the plot of the book, and the reader comes to feel that she is a member of the club as well. The discussions of the books read are part of the story, so one learns about these authors and books as well.
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