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Reading well. Good afternoon, i Michelle Easton president of the center for conservative women. I want to thank you all for coming and welcome you to october, conservative Womans Network lunch, cwm, a special thank you as well to the heritage foundation, bridget was a collation for the relation they have been putting on this monthly luncheon with outstanding conservative women for almost 20 years and its a real pleasure to come here once a month. Today am pleased to introduce the october speaker, karen swallow prior. She will be discussing her new book, pull it appear, it is a little one but a good one, it is called on reading well, finding the good life through great literature. In her book she tweeted a number of great books of western literature and explores in each one a single virtue like justice, faith, love and the result, i tell you in a test personally, that you understand the virtues better and you want to practice them in a better way. She is professor of english at Liberty