April 's book club moved to Carol's place

Since I'm hoping to be starting kitchen renos in April Carol kindly offered to switch hosting months. The poetry slam will now happen at Carol's on April 8th (Easter Monday is why we meet late). I'm now hosting December which works out as we spent Christmas at Carol's last year!

Book For April

Thank you so much Jacqueline for a delicious Paella dinner!!! Wow quite the undertaking.   I think pictures were taken and will soon be loaded up for those that missed it.   Tonight's group was small - only seven of us but we managed to talk about how uninterested we were in Maxwell Sim as a character, how disappointing the ending was, and how people can live their lives and not know that they are miserable...  We welcomed our newest member Miriana who regaled us with scary ghost stories of her previous home.  We are so glad she moved out, and if your wondering if there are any ghosts in your neighborhood check out: www.torontoghosts.org !
I have the honour of selecting next months book - and I am totally trying a new genre - something that I know nothing about - Poetry.  "A Thousand Mornings" 2012 by Mary Oliver (an American, Pulitzer Prize winning poet). (8 copies in t he library, 77 pages- a very slim volume)   I am wondering if Poetry has a place in your life?  Please select a poem from the anthology that you like, or made you think, and come prepared to read it for next book club.  Also, pick a favorite poem (any author), something you wrote in school, some lover sent you, a favorite poem you read as a child or  something that you read to your children, a song lyric or any piece of the written word that you consider poetic and come prepared to read to the group.  Our first College Street Book Club Poetry Slam!! (Oh by the way if you don't like poetry, don't want to pick or read - you don't have to...)