Description:
Offered by the Older LGBTTQ Programme at The 519 Church Street Community Centre, this book club for women 40+ holds a discussion on a different book each month.

Meeting Times:
Meets on the 3rd Monday of every month.
from 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Upcoming Book Selections :

Monday April 21st, 2008

Fun Home by Alison Bechal "This book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny tale, illustrated with Bechdel's gothic drawings. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heart-breaking and funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home" as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescent, the denouement is swift, graphic - and redemptive."--BOOK JACKET. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Monday May 12th, 2008

The Colour by Rose Tremain A sweeping saga of love and greed set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand. Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph’s mother Lilian, emigrate from England in search of new beginnings and prosperity in New Zealand. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he guiltily hides the discovery from his wife and mother, and is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the “colour,” are violently rushing to their destinies.

Monday June 16th, 2008

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran, a memoir by Azar Nafisi, the daughter of a former charismatic mayor of pre-revolutionary Tehran and of a woman who won a seat in Parliament in 1963, chronicles the personal and intellectual unfoldings of a private literature class she started in Tehran after she left her last teaching post. She'd resigned from the University of Tehran years earlier, refusing to wear the veil. The group consists of seven women ("girls," she calls them), children of the revolution, greatly diverse in religious and political beliefs and backgrounds, who arrive at her house every Thursday morning for two years in the mid-1990s, take off their chadors and scarves, and talk about books.

Last Update: Mar·2008