It's time to choose books again! The plan to is choose books at the beginning of our April meeting, so if you are unable to attend that meeting, please take a minute to put in your suggestions/preferences here so that we can take your input into account when we pick for the next few months.
Here's a look at the months ahead:
April 2012 - Reader's choice
- Sarah's Key byTatiana De Rosnay
- host: Tanya
- meeting on April 5th
- menu: TBA (Tanya's on top of menu and discussion questions for this)
May 2012 - Forgotten Favorites
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- host: Amanda
- meeting on May 3rd
- menu: Raspberry Goodness (menu and discussion questions from Read It and Eat)
June 2012 - Short and Sweet
host - Danielle
date- TBA
menu - "The Little Things in Life" including little appetizers and desserts
Let's check out some short story collections by Canadian authors. Like:
- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam;
- The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro;
- Morley Callahan's Now That April's Here;
- The Roseate Spoonbill of Happiness by Marilyn Gear Pilling.
This might be especially good for the busy month of June as you can read only a selection of the stories and still participate in the discussion!
July 2012- Travels to Remember- host: Tessa- date: TBA- The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.. a travel tale gone awry. Luis endures 10 days alone at sea. Menu: welcome home dinner of paella and cake
- Ciao America by Beppe Severgnini... written by a visiting Italian journalist. A humorous look at (north) America through the eyes of an outsider. Menu: community picnic
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel... an extraordinary tale of survival at sea. Pi Patel finds himself sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra and a tiger- comic and tragic and simply unbelievable. Menu: "eating the dream"
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert... a travel journal of self discovery, taking you to Italy, India and Indonesia. Menu: one dish from each country.
- other suggestions?
August 2012- Library Kit?- host: Melissa- date: TBA- Melissa - did you want to choose one of the Library kits and arrange this one?September 2012- Reader's Choice
- host: Trish
- date TBA
- did you want to choose this one, Trish? If not, anyone else want to volunteer?
October 2012- Mystery Night
- host: Karen
- date: TBA
Love a good mystery/detective novel? We haven't read one in a while. How about:
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett... a classic
- anything by PD James
- good old Agatha Christie
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.. check out the reviews on this one. Mysteeeeerious!
- any other suggestions
November 2012- Muckraking Madness- host: Chandra- date: TBA- The Bitter Cry of Children by John Spargo ( published in 1906 concerning the horrors of child labour)
- Welcome to Shirley by Kelly McMasters (a memoir about growing up in a town polluted by nuclear waste and chemical spills)
- The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg (a historical review of girl's changing relationships with their body throughout the last century)
- other suggestions?
December 2012- Get Cooking!- host: Sherrie- date: TBAWe had such a fun time with the cook book last year and it made a very easy read for a very busy time of the year. Anyone have a cookbook suggestion for us this time?
