Category Archives: Interest Groups
It’s always a perfect day to walk with good friends and conversation!
Our biking group!
Terry Fallis, Bill Bryson, old photos and more
We had a lively discussion about many great books at our meeting. One of our legacy members shared a photo from decades ago and we welcomed a new participant. Another of our legacy members shared a book by Susanna Kearsley, who had been a student of hers in high school.
One of our members let us know that Brant County Libraries was hosting two high profile author readings this year, Terry Fallis, and Joy Fielding. Should be great! They both have new books coming out soon.
One of our members is also an author and she showed us a book she was gifted by a visiting scholar. He had found the archival photo in the Antwerp museum dedicated to the Red Star Line that was used on the cover of a book written by our member for the Dear Canada series by Scholastic. Many of our ancestors traveled to Canada on the Red Star Line. So neat!
The bookaholics are at it again!
The Monday afternoon book club met again and as usual, we read a TON of good books. Norah presented Patriot by Alexei Navalny (fairly interesting and detailed but overlong and wordy) and posed for this pic.
Other books read and highly recommended:
Closed Doors by Lisa O’Donnell, Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories by Johanna Skibsrud, The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis, She Didn’t See It coming by Robyn Harding, Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves by Johnathan Walton and Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris.
Walking with a friend!
We had spectacular weather for walking today: no humidity, no mosquitoes, nice shade and great conversations. Plus we made a new friend. Here they are, hitch-hiking on Wendy B’s hat!
books, books, books!
There were just five of us at our most recent book group gathering, but all-tolled, we discussed about a dozen books! Here’s a pic of the hardcopy books:
But we also talked about these:
Janet K’s spectacular white pelican photos
These American White Pelicans were photographed by CFUW Brantford member Janet K some 2 kms downstream from Wilkes Dam on June 26th.
Nobody tells us what to read!
There are many different kinds of book clubs out there, but for our group, we are eclectic in our tastes and we generally each bring more than one book to talk about. We begin with lunch, then each participant gets about 7 minutes to talk about either one book or several. If there’s enough time at the end, those who still have more to talk about can continue.
We read a LOT of books this past month, but these were our favourites: Sophie Kinsella: What Does it Feel Like; Janelle Brown: Watch Me Disappear; Joyce Carol Oates: Fox; Alice Feeny: Beautiful Ugly; Scott Young: Gordon Sinclair, A Life and then Some; Marcus Rediker: Freedom Ship; Janelle Brown: What Kind of Paradise; SJ Bennet: Windsor Knot; Emma Knight: The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus.
We love our lunch and book meets!
