Book Talks Book Club
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Wed March 26th, 2025
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
March 26th: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion A first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea. He will design a questionnaire—a sixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaire—to uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent, strangely beguiling, and looking for her biological father a search that a DNA expert might just be able to help her with. The Rosie Project is a romantic comedy like no other. It is arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, and it will make you want to drink cocktails. - Amazon,ca Upcoming dates: Apr 23rd: Unveiled: How the West Empower Radical Muslims by Yasmine Mohammed May 28th: Circe by Madeline Miller Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Britannia Library Meeting Room. 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: [email protected] www.pandorascollective.com |
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Wed April 23rd, 2025
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
Apr 23rd: Unveiled: How the West Empower Radical Muslims by Yasmine Mohammed Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel meets The Handmaid's TaleSince September 11th, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet public debate about the faith is polarized—one camp praises "the religion of peace" while the other claims all Muslims are terrorists. Canadian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed believes both sides are dangerously wrong. In Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam, Yasmine speaks her truth as a woman born in the Western world who was forcefully married to a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda. Despite being a first-generation Canadian, she never felt at home in the West. And even though she attended Islamic schools and wore the hijab since age nine, Yasmine never fit in with her Muslim family either. With one foot in each world, Yasmine is far enough removed from both to see them objectively, yet close enough to see them honestly. Part Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, part The Handmaid's Tale, Yasmine's memoir takes readers into a world few Westerners are privy to. As a college educator for over fifteen years, Yasmine's goal is to unveil the truth. Is FGM Islamic or cultural? Is the hijab forced or a choice? Is ISIS a representation of "true" Islam or a radical corruption? And why is there so much conflicting information? Like most insular communities, the Islamic world has both an "outside voice" and an "inside voice." It's all but impossible for bystanders to get a straight answer. Without telling anyone what to believe, Unveiled navigates the rhetoric and guides truth-seekers through media narratives, political correctness, and outright lies while encouraging readers to come to their own conclusions. - Amazon.ca Upcoming dates: May 28th: Circe by Madeline Miller June 25th: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Britannia Library Meeting Room. 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: [email protected] www.pandorascollective.com |
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Wed May 28th, 2025
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
May 28th: Circe by Madeline Miller In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.... With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. - Amazon,ca Upcoming dates: June 25th: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb July 23rd: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab Aug 27th: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein Sept 24th: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Oct 22nd: Book Recommendation Night Nov 26th: The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor Jan 28, 2026: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Britannia Library Meeting Room. 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: [email protected] www.pandorascollective.com |
