2024 BOOK CLUB
Organizer: Cathie SingerWe have a wonderful, varied and interesting list of books planned for this summer. Thank you to all who have stepped up to offer to present a selection – I really appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm.This summer I cannot yet pin down the exact dates for our meetings as I am awaiting confirmation from the two authors who have agreed to join us. Hopefully I will have definite dates towards the end of April. So I will suggest the likely Tuesdays of our meetings and the books and pin down more firmly the dates as soon as possible.The meeting dates will be Tuesday afternoons at 3:30 at Sans Souci. I will try to have a Zoom connection if possible. Now I expect we would meet on July 2, July 16, July 30, August 13 and 20 (or 27th). However if Waub Rice or Bryn Turnbull can only come on a different Tuesday – we will adjust accordingly. So I am pencilling in all Tuesdays just in case in my calendar!Thanks for your patience! I am happy to send more details to anyone interested or answer any questions. cathie@cathiesinger.comMost likely/hopefully (!) the arrangement will be:JULY:Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons; The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray and presented by Phyllis Lill.This is a double biography of two strong-willed women, both born in New York in 1854, whose sons would help shape the world we live in. It was published simultaneously in Canada, U.K. and U.S., in September 2023. We discussed Murdered Midas by the same author last year.Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – A graphic Novel by Kate Beaton. Presented by Jacquie Green.This is a memoir of Kate’s experiences working in the Athabasca Oil sands and has been described as political, personal, monumental, intimate, generous, upsetting, surreal and disarmingly human. A warning that there is a scene of sexual assault which may be difficult for some and they may want to avoid this book. However the new format of a graphic novel and the environmental and economic issues are important.Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice. Presented by the Author Waub Rice with Libby Stratton and Sally BraunWe are delighted that Waub has offered to join us again and we will confirm his holiday times at the end of April. You may recall that he was with us a few years ago to present Moon on Crusted Snow.Moon on Turning Leaves is a sequel to this post-apocalyptic novel as a brave scouting party of hunters and harvesters must venture into unknown and dangerous territory to find a new home for their close-knit but slowly starving Northern Ontario Indigenous community more than a decade after a world-ending blackout.AUGUSTThe Paris Deception by Bryn Turnbull. Presented by the Author Bryn Turnbull and Cathie SingerBryn is an internationally bestselling author of historical fiction and has also written The Woman Before Wallis and The Last Grand Duchess.Bryn focuses on finding stories of women lost within the cracks of the historical record. The Paris Deception is an exciting novel about art theft and forgery in Nazi-occupied Paris and two brave women who risk their lives rescuing looted masterpieces from Nazi destruction. I heard Bryn speak last week here in Toronto – she was compelling and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing her share her experiences of her research and writing process. She is a Honey Harbour cottager and has agreed to try to come to our group in early August, so I have asked for August 13, but perhaps it could be August 6. I have heard her present and she is a dynamic and wise young women you would enjoy meeting.The Covenant of Water By Abraham Verghese. Presented by Dawn Drayton and Janet Burt.Verghese also wrote Cutting for Stone. This book, The Covenant of Water, is a huge epic of love, faith and medicine set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. It is a wonderful read. I recently listened to it and the author is the narrator and that recording is very well done.
2023 Flashlight Readers
Sans Souci and Copperhead Association