I thought I'd take a moment to thank Christine for hosting on Monday night while at the same time test out Barb's IT blog fix to see if it's working... if you are reading this email then please reply on the blog so we can confirm email notification is back!
Christine... such a lovely meal and thanks for leaving up you decorations so we could enjoy that last little bit of the holidays as we overindulged yet again!
Jane... your discussion was lively and truly made me like the book even more that I thought I did! Some great questions, thanks for all your prep work.
Julia & Carol you were both missed, hopefully you are both well!
Some of us will see each other up in Collingwood at the end of the month and some of us will see each other in Florida in February... as we said it seems to be the year of the travelling book club!
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!- FIRST BOOKCLUB OF 2020
I will be welcoming everyone to our first bookclub of 2K20 on Monday January 6 ( the Epiphany, and Russian Orthodox Christmas! )
See you at 7pm @ 114 Grace Street.
Discussing " Tiny Lights for Travellers" by Naomi Lewis
Facilitator: Jane
Note: next book club will be January 24 -26 @ the Duke in Collingwood.
Book is "Dear Girls" by Ali Wong, and Laura will lead the discussion.
Please RSVP this week so I know how many marshmallows to put out for the chocolate fondu!
Bonne année, Felice anno nuovo, Feliz año nuevo,
с новым годом
See you at 7pm @ 114 Grace Street.
Discussing " Tiny Lights for Travellers" by Naomi Lewis
Facilitator: Jane
Note: next book club will be January 24 -26 @ the Duke in Collingwood.
Book is "Dear Girls" by Ali Wong, and Laura will lead the discussion.
Please RSVP this week so I know how many marshmallows to put out for the chocolate fondu!
Bonne année, Felice anno nuovo, Feliz año nuevo,
с новым годом
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Successful Christmas Book Club
Thank you Jane for hosting us last night. Your house is beautiful and the meal was excellent and Christmassy. It really gets everyone in the spirit.
The book discussion mirrored the strangeness of the book: what is conciousness; will AI make anything better; who loved who; the parrallels between the 1819 story and the 2019 story; what about those sexbots??? And just to show how long a book club discussion sticks with you: Natalie texted me this morning to share her 3:00am revelation that Ry, the trans character, was both Mary and Percy Shelley. Talk about commitment to the book club!
The gift exchange saw several steals and funny scenes. Jane got to be both the beginning and end of the game - somehow fitting and everyone left with a gift that she liked.
There was a lot of time spent on organization and I will share the details here. The discussion on theme was to clarify what we discussed last month. We will read non-fiction books - the selector can decide what kind of non-fiction she wants.
Additionally, I will transfer the details into the side columns when I have a chance.
Date Location Book Selector
Jan 6 Christine Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi Lewis Jane
Jan24-26 Collingwood TBD Laura
Feb21-23 Florida TBD Carolyn
March No book club
Apr 6 Barb
May 4 Miriana
Jun 1 Carolyn
July Laura or Carol Cottage
August No bookclub
Sept14 Laura or Carol
Oct 5 Julia
Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year's celebration everyone. See you Jan 6.
The book discussion mirrored the strangeness of the book: what is conciousness; will AI make anything better; who loved who; the parrallels between the 1819 story and the 2019 story; what about those sexbots??? And just to show how long a book club discussion sticks with you: Natalie texted me this morning to share her 3:00am revelation that Ry, the trans character, was both Mary and Percy Shelley. Talk about commitment to the book club!
The gift exchange saw several steals and funny scenes. Jane got to be both the beginning and end of the game - somehow fitting and everyone left with a gift that she liked.
There was a lot of time spent on organization and I will share the details here. The discussion on theme was to clarify what we discussed last month. We will read non-fiction books - the selector can decide what kind of non-fiction she wants.
Additionally, I will transfer the details into the side columns when I have a chance.
Date Location Book Selector
Jan 6 Christine Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi Lewis Jane
Jan24-26 Collingwood TBD Laura
Feb21-23 Florida TBD Carolyn
March No book club
Apr 6 Barb
May 4 Miriana
Jun 1 Carolyn
July Laura or Carol Cottage
August No bookclub
Sept14 Laura or Carol
Oct 5 Julia
Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year's celebration everyone. See you Jan 6.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Holiday Book Club
Hi everyone. Christmas/Holiday/Winterfest/SeasonalWonderland book club is at my place on Monday. There is room for a couple of cars in my driveway and there may be road work at Kennedy and Pallisades that you will have to drive around. Let me know if you can come. Please remind me if you have things you don’t eat. Looking forward to seeing you all.
Monday, November 25, 2019
Book Club In Florida 🌴
Hi Everyone:
We talked about doing a book club in Florida the weekend of February 21, 2020. I will probably go down on the Thursday night and return on the Sunday. You may want to start looking at tickets because there are a lot of sales happening right now. Please confirm your attendance as soon as possible! Should be a blast.
Natalie
We talked about doing a book club in Florida the weekend of February 21, 2020. I will probably go down on the Thursday night and return on the Sunday. You may want to start looking at tickets because there are a lot of sales happening right now. Please confirm your attendance as soon as possible! Should be a blast.
Natalie
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Geena Davis Institute info
Here's the link to Geena Davis's charity work... such good stuff she is doing!
https://seejane.org/
https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/diversity-inclusivity-report-gender-in-youtube-advertising/
https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/see-jane-2019/
https://seejane.org/
https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/diversity-inclusivity-report-gender-in-youtube-advertising/
https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/see-jane-2019/
Monday, November 11, 2019
Snowy November evening.... ⛄️
Who would have thought November would bring us a snow storm but it did and that meant much to Julia’s dismay we all arrived early tonight since we didn’t want to be late due to the weather! Thank you Julia for adapting to the weather and hosting us in your beautiful home. Dinner was amazing so thank you.
Jane, Laura, Carol and Carolyn you were missed... in fact Carolyn when we learned you passed your exam we toasted your successes and graduation with wine! Julia has photo to prove this happened.
Our new theme for 2020 is one month non-fiction choice followed by next month focusing on witches, fiction or non-fiction. Should make for an interesting year!
Next month’s book does not fit the theme but it is Carolyn’s choice which means she’ll facilitate. Book is Frankissteien by Jeanette Winterson.
FYI - December Book club is at Jane’s. Annual gift exchange on capped @$25-30. No theme!
Jane, Laura, Carol and Carolyn you were missed... in fact Carolyn when we learned you passed your exam we toasted your successes and graduation with wine! Julia has photo to prove this happened.
Our new theme for 2020 is one month non-fiction choice followed by next month focusing on witches, fiction or non-fiction. Should make for an interesting year!
Next month’s book does not fit the theme but it is Carolyn’s choice which means she’ll facilitate. Book is Frankissteien by Jeanette Winterson.
FYI - December Book club is at Jane’s. Annual gift exchange on capped @$25-30. No theme!
Monday, November 4, 2019
November Book Club
Hi All!
Looking forward to hosting next week, Monday November 11th. I appreciate everybody's flexibility moving the date back. I'll do my best to keep Jane up long enough to charm all of you!
547 Delaware Ave
I'm planning on cooking vegetarian so aside from that, any allergies I need to know about?
Best,
Julia
Looking forward to hosting next week, Monday November 11th. I appreciate everybody's flexibility moving the date back. I'll do my best to keep Jane up long enough to charm all of you!
547 Delaware Ave
I'm planning on cooking vegetarian so aside from that, any allergies I need to know about?
Best,
Julia
Thursday, October 10, 2019
WINE 101
I mentioned on Monday that I am taking this course at GB. Please join me! It’s every Wednesday night from 6:30-9:30pm, from Jan 15, 2020 - April 1, 2020. Theory + tasting! What could be better...
Monday, October 7, 2019
October’s book And other stuff...
After much discussion and debate October book selection is “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens. We’re not certain whose book selection this is but I am happy to call it my choice and moderate in November.
Barb will post a reset of who’s hosting/selecting for 2020 but in the meantime we made another group decision tonight... a group decision when half of the group had already departed so my apologies... first Miriana promises to cook eggplant Parmesan (with a kale Salad) annually which is just so exciting and secondly everyone needs to bring theme ideas for next month’s meeting as we want to lock a theme for 2020. Those of us present for the final discussion felt locking a theme brought us stronger book selections. Carolyn you’re away next month but send your theme ideas so we can ensure everyone has a say.
Lovely to see everyone tonight, a beautiful meal and passionate discussion... love to be part of this! Miriana thank you for hosting!
Some dates to take note of...
November 11 book club @ Julia’s house
January 24-26 is book club @The Duke in Collingwood
February 21-23 is book club at Nat’s place in Florida!
January 24-26 is book club @The Duke in Collingwood
February 21-23 is book club at Nat’s place in Florida!
Friday, October 4, 2019
OCTOBER BOOK CLUB
Hello Friends,
Happy to be hosting on Monday.
I am a solo mom next week so not sure what will end up on the table but with all of your sparkling personalities I am sure it wont really matter!
See you at 7PM at 146 Westminster Ave.
Please let me know if you can make it!
Miriana
Happy to be hosting on Monday.
I am a solo mom next week so not sure what will end up on the table but with all of your sparkling personalities I am sure it wont really matter!
See you at 7PM at 146 Westminster Ave.
Please let me know if you can make it!
Miriana
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Sharon Butala
Hi all. You probably remember Sharon. She came to talk to us about her book “Wild Rose.” Sharon is short listed for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for her book, “Season of Fury and Wonder.”
Yay Sharon!
Yay Sharon!
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Podcast to listen to if you have time!
My sister Laurie also read last month's book and also didn't really enjoy the book... after she listened to this CBC podcast interviewing the author she changed her opinion, at least about the author... I've not listened yet but it sounds like it's worth the listen!
Passion and pain: Why this writer studied women's most intimate desires | CBC Radiohttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/
Passion and pain: Why this writer studied women's most intimate desires | CBC Radiohttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/
Monday, September 9, 2019
These things I know are true...
These things I know are true...
... we are a brave group of women who will discuss any topic, any book, anywhere... I think the staff at tonight’s restaurant will be talking about “this group of women...” for quite some time! Sex makes for interesting listening in!
... we are able to not all love a book yet dig in and discus the pros and cons for hours without judging each other or hurting feelings! 7 out of 8 didn’t like the book, for those of you not in attendance I will leave it to you to determine who liked it!
... we feel trust in each other to be honest and true, ask Julia who shared her most recent sexual encounter or was it her mother’s?
... we all instantly jumped up to hug Nat and her puppy aka dog! Barb you were missed as well!
.... Miriana was the best moderately EVER... seriously she took her job to heart and I thank her for subbing in, we are a tough group to moderate, well done!
... the food and wine was delicious, Carolyn kindly thank Mark and although I miss sitting on your back deck it was a lovely evening and a lovely compromise, like you said a win win for both of you and all of us as well!
... finally I know October is Miranda, November Julia, December Jane and January me at The Duke... as for books Laura will post tomorrow.
Such a fun evening, thanks everyone for being honest and true!
... we are a brave group of women who will discuss any topic, any book, anywhere... I think the staff at tonight’s restaurant will be talking about “this group of women...” for quite some time! Sex makes for interesting listening in!
... we are able to not all love a book yet dig in and discus the pros and cons for hours without judging each other or hurting feelings! 7 out of 8 didn’t like the book, for those of you not in attendance I will leave it to you to determine who liked it!
... we feel trust in each other to be honest and true, ask Julia who shared her most recent sexual encounter or was it her mother’s?
... we all instantly jumped up to hug Nat and her puppy aka dog! Barb you were missed as well!
.... Miriana was the best moderately EVER... seriously she took her job to heart and I thank her for subbing in, we are a tough group to moderate, well done!
... the food and wine was delicious, Carolyn kindly thank Mark and although I miss sitting on your back deck it was a lovely evening and a lovely compromise, like you said a win win for both of you and all of us as well!
... finally I know October is Miranda, November Julia, December Jane and January me at The Duke... as for books Laura will post tomorrow.
Such a fun evening, thanks everyone for being honest and true!
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Summary of Books of the Last Two Years 2017 - 2019
I usually do this every year so we can have a record of what we read. These books mostly represent our theme from the last two years: "Difficult Women."
If you want to see books from previous years look under the label: Year End.
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
What Happened by Hillary Clinton
Her Body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Girl Walks out of a Bar by Lisa F. Smith
Brave by Rose McGowan
Blood, Water, Paint by Joy McCullough
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Heroes in My Head by Judy Rebick
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Improvement by Joan Silber
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
Educated by Tara Westover
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
What Happened by Hillary Clinton
Her Body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Girl Walks out of a Bar by Lisa F. Smith
Brave by Rose McGowan
Blood, Water, Paint by Joy McCullough
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Heroes in My Head by Judy Rebick
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Improvement by Joan Silber
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
Educated by Tara Westover
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
If you want to see books from previous years look under the label: Year End.
It feels like it has been way too long...
Marc and I are having our usual fight about records in the dining room. He refuses to clear them out and has bribed me with taking the book club out for dinner. He is a skilled negotiator and we will be dining at:
Sotto Voce Wine Bar
595 College St, Toronto
Monday , September 09 @7pm
http://sottovoce.ca
Please let me know if you are coming.
Sotto Voce Wine Bar
595 College St, Toronto
Monday , September 09 @7pm
http://sottovoce.ca
Please let me know if you are coming.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Who picks October's book?
Since the blog is now sending out emails again I wanted to update the book selector list... I know I don't pick in October as I picked June's book but I don't remember who hasn't selected recently... if you're due to select a book let me know and I'll add you to the list. Thx.
Monday, May 27, 2019
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