Book Talks Book Club
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Wed March 25th, 2026
Pandora’s Collective Presents BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB ---NEW LOCATION (Kitsilano Library) & START TIME (6pm)--- 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: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
March 25th: The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon "The Gates of Gaza is a gripping first-person account of how one Israeli grandfather helped rescue two generations of his family on October 7, 2023—a saga that reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures behind Hamas's attacks that day. ... More than one family's odyssey, this is the intimate story of a tight-knit community and the broader saga of war, occupation, and hostility between two national movements—a conflict that has not yet extinguished the enduring hope for peace" - Amazon.ca Upcoming dates: April 22nd: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide May 27th: The Knowing by Tanya Talaga June 24th: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen July 22nd: Crowd Source By Cecily Nicholson Aug 26th: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Ellendea Proffer (Introduction), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) Sept 23rd: A Drop in the Ocean by Lea Taranto Oct 28th: The Garden of Evening Mists: by Tan Twan Eng Nov 25th: Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now by Jan Wong Dec: off for the holidays Jan 27th, 2027: Book Recommendation Night Feb 25th: Long Island by Colm Toibin March 25th: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Kitsilano Library, Meeting Room, 2425 MacDonald Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: [email protected] www.pandorascollective.com |
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Wed April 22, 2026
Pandora’s Collective and Britannia Library Present BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB ---LOCATION (Kitsilano Library) & START TIME (6pm)--- 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: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
April 22nd: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide "A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife; they go walking together, talk and share stories of the cat and its little ways, play in the nearby Garden. But then something happens that will change everything again. The Guest Cat is an exceptionally moving and beautiful novel about the nature of life and the way it feels to live it. The book won Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, and was a bestseller in France and America." - Amazon.ca Upcoming dates: May 27th: The Knowing by Tanya Talaga June 24th: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen July 22nd: Crowd Source By Cecily Nicholson Aug 26th: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Ellendea Proffer (Introduction), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) Sept 23rd: A Drop in the Ocean by Lea Taranto Oct 28th: The Garden of Evening Mists: by Tan Twan Eng Nov 25th: Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now by Jan Wong Dec: off for the holidays Jan 27th, 2027: Book Recommendation Night Feb 25th: Long Island by Colm Toibin March 25th: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Kitsilano Library, Meeting Room, 2425 MacDonald Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: [email protected] www.pandorascollective.com |
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Wed May 27th, 2026
Pandora’s Collective and Britannia Library Present BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB ---LOCATION (Kitsilano Library) & START TIME (6pm)--- 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 27th: The Knowing by Tanya Talaga ".#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD | FINALIST FOR THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING | SHORTLISTED FOR THE RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE | WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ OF CANADA BRASS KNUCKLES AWARD | SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARDS From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family’s story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, “Indian hospitals” and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada’s greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonment."- Amazon,ca Upcoming dates: June 24th: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen July 22nd: Crowd Source By Cecily Nicholson Aug 26th: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Ellendea Proffer (Introduction), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) Sept 23rd: A Drop in the Ocean by Lea Taranto Oct 28th: The Garden of Evening Mists: by Tan Twan Eng Nov 25th: Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now by Jan Wong Dec: off for the holidays Jan 27th, 2027: Book Recommendation Night Feb 25th: Long Island by Colm Toibin March 25th: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Hosts: Mary Duffy, Sita Carboni, Natasha Boskic Location: Kitsilano Library, Meeting Room, 2425 MacDonald Street, Vancouver, BC Contact: [email protected] www.pandorascollective.com |
The selection of the books for discussion is created by the book club members. One month in a year of the Book Talks is dedicated to the book recommendations (up to 3 books per member). This list is later distributed for voting. Our next book recommendation month is January 27, 2027. Everyone is welcome. Just like the Book Talks conversations, pre-registration is not required.
