The stories told tonight could not have been made up... Christine's mom charged as a potential murderer... Julia's near fatal yet fortunately only a close call car accident and Carolyn's BBQ / Barb McGeough ashes story... I'm so grateful I came to book club... wow we all certainly have complex lives!
Carol thank you for hosting such a wonderful evening and providing Natalie with her requested birthday ice cream cake! Everything was so tasty. Next month is at the reference library with dinner/drinks afterwards at Terroni's.
The theme for the year will be set next month but personally I'm partial to Barb's theme "difficult women"... gives some structure with lots of choice. I won't be at October's meeting but I give my vote to Jane as I had her vote tonight even though we never voted... too much intrigue and laughter to set a new direction.
When you set the hosting calendar I'm happy to host in December... I'm hopeful book club will motivate me to get into the holiday spirit... I love Christmas I'm just not certain what hosting book club or Christmas looks like without Lester (he always did all the cooking) so I'll jump in with both feet and lean in all of you to help me navigate this new life.
Happy Fall!
Monday, September 11, 2017
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Sept 11
Hi ladies.
Happy first day of school to you all.
Next week book club is at my house, 1028 Queen Street East (Queen east and Pape). I will leave the door open as I don't have a doorbell STILL!
I will try to have us outside but no guarantees.
See you soon.
Happy first day of school to you all.
Next week book club is at my house, 1028 Queen Street East (Queen east and Pape). I will leave the door open as I don't have a doorbell STILL!
I will try to have us outside but no guarantees.
See you soon.
Monday, August 28, 2017
Out There Idea for October
The Toronto Public Library hosts free lectures and talks by excellent authors. On Monday October 2nd, the same night as our October book club, Claire Messud will talk about her new book: The Burning Girl. The book sounds interesting: it is a coming of age story about an intimate female friendship. Claire also sounds intriguing as she likes to write about "difficult women." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/magazine/whos-afraid-of-claire-messud.html?mcubz=3
Would the group be interested in reading this book and attending the author lecture for our October book club date? The lecture is 7:00 - 8:00 pm at the Toronto Reference Library. The tickets are free, but we need to sign up for them in advance. For this lecture we need too book at 9:00 am on Monday morning September 11. A single person can book 2 tickets, so we would need to have 5 people sign up to get the tickets before they run out.
After the event, we could grab a bite to eat in the neighborhood and de-brief.
If we want to do this, we will need to coordinate this via the blog before our next book club. Let me know.
Would the group be interested in reading this book and attending the author lecture for our October book club date? The lecture is 7:00 - 8:00 pm at the Toronto Reference Library. The tickets are free, but we need to sign up for them in advance. For this lecture we need too book at 9:00 am on Monday morning September 11. A single person can book 2 tickets, so we would need to have 5 people sign up to get the tickets before they run out.
After the event, we could grab a bite to eat in the neighborhood and de-brief.
If we want to do this, we will need to coordinate this via the blog before our next book club. Let me know.
Monday, July 10, 2017
AUGUST BOOK!
Hello Friends,
I hope you all had a great time at the cottage. I look forward to hearing all of the stories.
For this month's book, I have selected Flannery O'Conner's A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Short Stories. So it is Southern Gothic this time around and short stories for a change.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the August book club as I will be on the east coast. I just realized how late in the month we are meeting......
I can send through discussion questions, or I could switch with Christine for book selection duties this month. Or since we are reading short stories, maybe we can just pick a couple and meet on July 31st instead? So many options.....
xo
Miriana
I hope you all had a great time at the cottage. I look forward to hearing all of the stories.
For this month's book, I have selected Flannery O'Conner's A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Short Stories. So it is Southern Gothic this time around and short stories for a change.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the August book club as I will be on the east coast. I just realized how late in the month we are meeting......
I can send through discussion questions, or I could switch with Christine for book selection duties this month. Or since we are reading short stories, maybe we can just pick a couple and meet on July 31st instead? So many options.....
xo
Miriana
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