Book Club - 2011-12 Schedule

The Atwater Library Book Club is led with intelligence and skill by author Mary Soderstrom.  (For her bio, see http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/12)  

FREE ADMISSION

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
A runaway best seller about adoption, ethnicity and family love

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A classic novel that means more with each reading

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 7:30 pm
The Wide Sargasso Sea  by Jean Rhys
The "back story" of Jane Eyre, told by a master stylist of the 20th century

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A landmark novel by Africa's most read author

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
A novel about Gauguin and his militant grandmother Flora Tristan by the Nobel winner

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
An Inca suspension bridge collapses: a novel about destiny by the American novelist and playwright

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Postman's Round by Denis Thériault
A short novel about poetry, letter carriers, and love

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
Surprise winner of the 2010 Giller prize by the young Montreal writer

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
The fictional autobiography of a Roman emperor by the French writer

Two copies of all the selections are now in the Atwater Library collection and the catalogue is online.

You can enjoy the discussion whether or not you've read the book.

Coffee included!

For more info:
Contact Beth Symansky:
beth@atwaterlibrary.ca
514-935-7344

Please click here to view the 2010-11 schedule.
Please click here to view the 2009-10 schedule.