BOOK CLUB
The Afternoon Book Club meets at 1:00 and ends about 3:00 after light refreshments.
The Evening Book Club meets from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Discussion is friendly, supportive, and wide-ranging.
Prospective members may attend as a guest. Please leave a message at 613-860-0548.
Book lists for the 2014/2015 year are:
Afternoon Book Club
September – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
October – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye by Rachel Joyce
November – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
December – The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
January – The Guernsey Literary & Potatoe Peel Pie Society by Ann Shaffer
February – Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
March – Old Filth by Jane Gardam
April – The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
May – The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion
June – Pot Luck and presentation of members reading recommendations for the upcoming year.
Evening Book Club
September – Where’d you go Bernadette by Maria Semple
October – You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt
November – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
December – Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
January – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
February – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harld Frye by Rachel Joyce
March – Mapping the Edge by Sarah Dunant
April – The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong
May – The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
June – Group get together of choice and book selection for the following session
Previous Year Selections
Afternoon Book Club
September – Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, 2011 (Biography)
October – Plain Truth by Jodie Picoult, 2011 (Fiction)
November – The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston, 1998(Fictional Biography)
December – The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey, 2012 (Fiction)
January – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 2010 (Non-fiction)
February – The Juggler’s Children: a Journey Into Family, Legend, and the Genes That Bind us by Carolyn Abraham, 2013 (Non-fiction)
March – Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, 2011 (Fiction)
April – Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay, 2007 (Fiction)
May – Wild: From Lost To Found On The Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, 2012 (Memoir)
June – Pot-luck lunch 12-2. Suggest and discuss books
Evening Book Club
September – The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom, 2010
October – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967
November – The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, 2013
December – The Shoemaker’s Wife by by Adriana Trigiani, 2012
January – The Time In Between by Maria Duenas, 2011
February – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, 2006
March – The Sisterhood by Helen Bryan, 2013
April – Indignation by Philip Roth, 2008
May – Why Men Lie by Linden MacIntyre, 2012
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