June film/book club discussions...

Our film and book clubs for June were thematically linked: we watched the biopic Kinsey, and read The Inner Circle (T.C. Boyle), an historical fiction tale of Alfred Kinsey's "inner circle" of sex researchers. Those who read the book and watched the film noticed the striking contrasts in how Kinsey was portrayed: the film depicting him as a man of science on a moral quest to rid America of its hangups surrounding sex, the book depicting him as a controlling, manipulative man dangerously trespassing the boundaries between objective science and personal sexual proclivities. Between the two perspective, we probably got a full picture of his triumphs and failures.

July Film Club (Wedneday, July 16, 7pm-8pm): Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), German with English subtitles.

July Book Club (Thursday, July 17, noon-1:00): Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis