Thursday, October 5, 2017

Book Club Planning for 2017/18

It was a real treat to hear Claire Messud interviewed by Tina Srebotnjak. It was like being an observer at a smart book club discussion. Claire had some interesting observations about the work and opinions on writing. We liked it so much we thought that we should do it again.

The November book club date is moved to Monday October 30 and will be at the Toronto Reference Library. Jennifer Egan (The Goon Squad) has a new book Manhattan Beach.  The plan is to read this and attend the talk.

 need several volunteers to log in and book tickets for the event. The ticket booking will take place at 9:00am Tuesday October 10th. Reply on the blog and I will send you a reminder with the link. It is easy to book the ticket from a computer or on your phone using the Eventbrite App.

We also had time to enjoy a nice dinner at Terroni, hear about Jane’s adventures in Italy, decide the theme for next year and arrange the hosting and facilitating plan. We picked the theme Difficult Women. This is intended to be a broad topic where the difficult woman could be the author or a character in the book. You decide how to interpret this and select a literary form: fiction, non-fiction, poetry or ???? We will begin with the theme for the December meeting.


I have posted the dates for hosting and facilitating here on the blog. There may need to be changes. If your dates don’t work see if you can switch with someone or respond here on the blog.

2 comments:

Christine said...

I will definitely order tickets. Started reading the book - it is excellent. Very well written. Looking forward to Jennifer Egan's interview.

Julia said...

My childcare just fell through! Trying for backup but was anyone counting on a ticket from me? If so I can forward one.