Book Talks Book Club
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Wed Sept 27th
Pandora’s Collective and Britannia Library Present BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB Join the conversation about the book. Bring your favourite passages, points of interest, and share your reading experiences. Each person is responsible for either borrowing or buying their own copy to read. 
Time: 6:15 - 7:45 pm
Sept 27th: The Library Book by Susan Orlean On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country. - Amazon.ca Upcoming book club meetings: Oct 25th: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Nov 22nd: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard Dec - off for the holidays Jan 24th: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi Feb 28th: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma Mar 27th: We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama April 24th: Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman May 22nd: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton June 26th: The Years by Annie Ernaux July 24th: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Aug 28th: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Sept 25th: Book Recommendation Night Oct 23rd: A Little Life Paperback by Hanya Yanagihara Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Britannia Library Meeting Room. 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC www.pandorascollective.com |
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Wed Oct 25th
Pandora’s Collective and Britannia Library Present BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB Join the conversation about the book. Bring your favourite passages, points of interest, and share your reading experiences. Each person is responsible for either borrowing or buying their own copy to read. 4th Wed of every month (except Dec). 
Time: 6:15 - 7:45 pm Oct 25th: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised―the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves―until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss. - Amazon. Upcoming book club meetings: Nov 22nd: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard Dec - off for the holidays Jan 24th: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi Feb 28th: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma Mar 27th: We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama April 24th: Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman May 22nd: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton June 26th: The Years by Annie Ernaux July 24th: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Aug 28th: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Sept 25th: Book Recommendation Night Oct 23rd: A Little Life Paperback by Hanya Yanagihara Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Britannia Library Meeting Room. 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: booktalks@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com |
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Wed Nov 22nd
Pandora’s Collective and Britannia Library Present BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB Join the conversation about the book. Bring your favourite passages, points of interest, and share your reading experiences. Each person is responsible for either borrowing or buying their own copy to read. 4th Wed of every month (except Dec). 
Time: 6:15 - 7:45 pm
Nov 22nd: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard describes up close—in revealing and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved; how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about their future; how they elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication: characteristics previously ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies. And, at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. - Amazon. Upcoming book club meetings: Dec - off for the holidays Jan 24th: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi Feb 28th: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma Mar 27th: We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama April 24th: Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman May 22nd: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton June 26th: The Years by Annie Ernaux July 24th: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Aug 28th: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Sept 25th: Book Recommendation Night Oct 23rd: A Little Life Paperback by Hanya Yanagihara Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Britannia Library Meeting Room. 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: booktalks@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com |
