February 6th Book Club

Hi Everyone:

Looking forward to hosting next week's book club meeting :)

I live at 166 Manning Avenue, which is about 10 houses south of Dundas, west of Bathurst, east of Trinity Bellwoods. I'm accross from the alley between Euclid and Manning. The street is one way south so you could come up Euclid and cut through the alley - or just come off Dundas.

There is parking on my street, on Dundas and on the surrounding streets. If you have any issues call me 416.725.5415

Please confirm whether you are coming and let me know if you have any dietary restrictions.

Natalie

New Year Fully Underway

Thank you Jackie for a lovely evening in your groovy new place with terrific view. It was wonderful to see everyone and the book sparked lively discussions. Most people did not like the book but had many ideas about the characters and the norms of the time in which it was set. As always, there were many opinions.

Our next book is The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht. Jackie will facilitate the next meeting and Natalie will host. Carol will select the March book from any of the book awards that we covered this year: Canada Reads; Pulitzer or Orange. Additionally she will host the March meeting which will include planning for our next year. Everyone agreed to invite Laura's friend but thought that she should start after our planning session, that is in April.

We were trying to send positive vibes out to our missing members: Get well Elva -- everyone is dying to meet Xavier and Good luck Laura -- we want you to be a principal almost as much as you do.

Hope I have captured it all --- let me know what I've missed.

Happy New Year!

Thanks for the January update Barb. I am looking forward the first book club meeting of 2012. My address is 2191 Yonge Street (North Tower), Suite 4201. There is public parking in the building ($2/hr; $5 max.), look for the blue P sign off of Yonge St. just south of Eglinton, on the east side. For access to the 42nd floor, give the concierge (ground floor) my name and suite number. Please let me know if you are planning to attend – thanks! January 9th @ 7pm jacalv@hotmail.com 647 931 9241

January Update

Happy New Year Everyone,

I assume that Jacqueline will post details of the next book club meeting which is Monday January 9th. We are reading Small Island and the discussion will be facilitated by Marney.

Note on a couple of logistics details: Now that Faith is not with the Book club, there is a requirement for a book selector for February (which means you give us the title in Feb and we discuss in March). Carol can you take this on since you have not had a chance to select? Also - this is slated to be our last Orange prize pick. Do we want to have Carol pick from the Orange prizes or should she have free range to pick whatever? I leave it to the group to discuss.

Also -- our meeting in March will include planning for the next year. This means drawing for names for hosting and selecting. It also means that we can discuss whether we want another theme year or book type. Again, I leave it to the group to provide collective wisdom.

See you soon.