Book Talks Book Club
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Wed June 25th, 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
June 25th: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them. - Amazon,ca Upcoming dates: 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 |
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Wed July 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
July 23: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever―and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.- Amazon,ca Upcoming dates: 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 |
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Wed Aug 27th, 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
Aug 27th: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein Not long ago, Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were similar enough to her own that many people confused her for the other. For a vertiginous moment, she lost her bearings. And then she got interested, in a reality that seems to be warping and doubling like a digital hall of mirrors. It’s happening in our politics as New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers find common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting “the children”). It’s happening in our culture as AI gobbles up music, paintings, fiction and everything in between and spits out imitations that threaten to overtake the originals. And it’s happening to many of us as individuals as we create digital doubles of ourselves, filtered and curated just so for all the other duplicates to see. An award-winning journalist, bestselling author, public intellectual and activist, Naomi Klein writes books that orient us in our time. She has offered essential accounts of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Now, as liberal democracies teeter on the edge, Klein takes aim at absurdist authoritarianism, using a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the doubles that haunt us. Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Doppelganger invites readers on a wild ride, smashing through the mirror world, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity. - Amazon,ca Upcoming dates: 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 |
