Monday, March 4, 2013

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...)

2 comments:

Marney said...

Roses are red - violets are blue
I promise to try poetry but only for you!

Looking forward to next month's poetry slam.... For those of you who missed dinner it truly was an amazing feast with great wines Carolyn checked out on her LCBO app!

Christine said...

Love your picture Marney!