Book Talks Book Club
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Wed March 29th
Pandora’s Collective and Britannia Library Present BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB (March will be via Zoom. Starting in April we will be back in the Britannia library meeting room) 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: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
March 29th: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny. - Amazon.ca Upcoming book club meetings: April 26th: Nisha by Jordan Abel May 24th: What Strange Paradise: A Novel by Omar El Akkad June 28th: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad July 26th: Book Recommendation Night (bring your recommendations for our next reading list) Aug 23rd: The Last White Man: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Via Zoom Registration Required: Email booktalks@pandorascollective.com to receive the Zoom link. www.pandorascollective.com |
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Wed April 26th
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
April 26th: Nishga by Jordan Abel "WINNER of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize at the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence." - Amazon.ca Upcoming book club meetings: May 24th: What Strange Paradise: A Novel by Omar El Akkad June 28th: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad July 26th: Book Recommendation Night (bring your recommendations for our next reading list) Aug 23rd: The Last White Man: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Britannia Library Meeting Room. 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: booktalks@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com |
