Book club November 7 – Loft on Croft

Hi Everyone

I will be hosting the next book club to discuss Dracula and the plan for book selecting and hosting schedule for the next 10 months.

Please let me know if you will be able to attend. If you can’t be there can you let us know if you have any preferences or restrictions in terms of hosting or facilitating next year? The new schedule will be posted on the blog after our meeting.

Details:

4 Croft Street (just north of College, 1.5 blocks east of Bathurst)

There are no parking spots on Croft – options are to park on College (paid) or on one of the side streets: Lippincott or Borden. 

Thus endeth our year of translations: 2016 book choices

I like to keep a record of all of the book choices from each year. I am posting the list of the books in translation that we chose in case anyone wants to refer to what we've read in future years.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Night Train to Lisbon by Peter Bieri (Pascal Mercier)

My Struggle vol.1 by Karl Ove Knausgard

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler

Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Wild Rose by Sharon Butala (not a translation but author visit)

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

To Quote Natalie: "Best Book Club Ever!"

Thank you Miriana for hosting a lovely evening on the heels of your fabulous NYC weekend. We are all totally jealous. And you made it look easy.

Was it the best book ever? Were we all mesmerized by the book's depth, humour and humanity? Well -- those who attended may or may not ever tell. Too bad you missed it.

What we can disclose is the theme for our next year or 18 months. We will be focusing on the gothic novel or horror genre. We did not pick names for hosting or book selection. We will do that next month. What we did decide on was that I (Barb) would host and Christine would pick the book and facilitate. We will do the hosting and book selectors when we have a bigger crowd next month.

In the meantime, our next book is a seminal work in our new theme: Dracula by Bram Stoker.