Our history...
What we've read and when we read it...
(please help fix errors or fill in blanks if you can)
2021
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
20 February
ZOOM
Phil
First Snow, Last Light (Wayne Johnston)
9 January
ZOOM
Katrina
The Pull of the Stars (Emma Donoghue)
2020
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
4 December
ZOOM
Jed
Turvey (Earle Birney)
24 October
Lesley
Lesley
The Lying Life of Adults (Elana Ferante)
19 September
Susan
Susan
No Great Mischief (Alistair MacLeod)
15 August
Robbie & Phil
Robbie
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club (Megan Gail Coles)
11 July
Des & Katrina
Des
Mind Spread Out on the Ground (Alicia Elliot)
30 May or 6 June
ZOOM
Patricia
Greenwood (Michael Christie)
25 or 26 April
ZOOM
Phil
Wind, Sand and Stars (Antoine De Saint-Exupery)
1 March
Katrina & Des
Katrina
The Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)
19 January
Susan
Susan
Land of Lost Borders (Kate Harris)
2019
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
10 November
Des & Katrina
Des
The Atom Station (Halldor Laxness)
21 September
Patricia
Patricia
In a Wide Country (Robert Everett-Green)
10 August
Lesley
Lesley
Warlight (Michael Ondaatje)
17 May
Susan
Joanna
Our Animal Hearts (Dania Tomlinson)
3 March
Katrina and Des
Katrina
Son of a Trickster (Eden Robinson)
11 January
Susan
Susan
Washington Black (Esi Edugyan)
2018
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
23 November
Phil and Robbie
Phil M.
Winnie-the-Pooh or other books by (A. A. Milne)
19 October
Des and Katrina
Des
One Native Life (Richard Wagamese)
11 August
Robbie and Phil
Robbie
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
23 June
Katrina and Des
Phil S.
The Original Face (Guillaume Morissette)
14 April
Lesley
Lesley
Hillbilly Elegy (J. D. Vance)
2 March
Patricia
Patricia
El Niño (Nadia Bozak), with Nadia on Skype
7 February
Marienbad restaurant
Joanna
Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars (Ethan Hawke, Greg Ruth)
2017
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
3 December
Katrina and Des
Katrina
News of the World (Paulette Jiles)
5 November
Susan
Susan
Ragged Company (Richard Wagamese)
29 September
Des and Katrina
Des
Staking Claims to a Continent (James Laxer)
19 August
Phil and Robbie
Phil M.
Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words (Malka Marom)
1 April
Lesley
Lesley
Commonwealth (Ann Patchett)
18 February
Robbie and Phil
Robbie
Waiting for Gertrude (Bill Richardson)
14 January
Katrina and Des
Katrina
Fifteen Dogs (Andre Alexis)
2016
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
25 November
Phil and Roz
Phil
No Relation (Terry Fallis)
14 October
Susan
Susan
Sweetland (Michael Crummey)
2 September
Katrina and Des
Roz
The Ice Child (Camilla Lackberg)
14 May
Lesley
Phil
Murder of the Century (or any other book by) (Paul Collins)
9 April
Des and Katrina
Des
Clearing in the west (Nellie McClung)
5 March
Lesley
Lesley
The Burgess Boys (Elizabeth Strout)
29 January
Robbie and Phil
Phil M.
Crow Lake (Mary Lawson)
2015
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
6 December
Aeolian Hall, then Robbie and Phil's
Roz
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, acted by John Huston)
25 October
Susan
Susan
Burial Rites (Hannah Kent)
19 September
Katrina and Des
Katrina
The Green Road (Anne Enright)
19 June
Lesley
Lesley
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)
22-24 May
Thornbury
Robbie
Ellen in Pieces (Caroline Adderson)
17 April
Des and Katrina
Des
Excerpts from the Diary of (Samuel Pepys)
6 March
Roz and Phil
Roz
Any book or short story by (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
23 January
Roz and Phil
Phil
Any recent reading
2014
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
5 December
Susan
Susan
Bear (
Marian Engel)
1 November
Phil and Roz
Phil
My Struggle, Book 1 (A death in the Family) (
Karl Ove Knausgård)
14 September
Lesley
Lesley
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka)
30 June
Katrina and Des
Katrina
Anything by David Sedaris
23 May
Susan
Susan
The Film Club (David Gilmour)
4 April
Roz and Phil
Roz
How Music Works (David Byrne)
28 February
Des and Katrina
Desmond
The Commitments (Roddy Doyle)
17 January
Lesley
Everybody
Any current reading
2013
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
29 November
Susan
Susan
The Submission (Amy Waldman)
25 October
Roz and Phil
Roz
Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)
13 September
Katrina and Des
Katrina
The Round House (Louise Erdrich)
7 June
Lesley
Lesley
419 (Will Ferguson)
26 April
Phil and Roz
Phil
The Lake of Dreams (Kim Edwards)
1 March
Desmond and Katrina
Desmond
Poems (Earle Birney) (alternatively, his novel 'Turvey')
1 February
Susan
Susan
Flight Behavior (Barbara Kingsolver)
2012
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
15 December
Roz and Phil
Phil
The Inconvenient Indian (Thomas King)
16 November
Susan
All
Any current reading (special guest - Cornelia)
28 September
Lesley
Lesley
The Cat's Table (Michael Ondaatje)
22 June
Katrina and Des
Katrina
Under the Glacier (or any other work by Halldór Laxness)
27 April
Susan
Susan
The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
2 March
Roz and Phil
Roz
Chanda's Secrets (Allan Stratton)
27 January
Eva
Eva
The Morville Hours (Katherine Swift)
2011
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
9 December
Lesley
Lesley
The Sentimentalists (Johanna Skibsrud)
28 October
Ted and Cornelia
Ted
Good Old Neon (David Foster Wallace)
30 September
Lesley
Everybody
Summer's best read (any author)
24 July
Roz and Phil
None
Informal evening, farewell to Pat and Terri
29 April
Lesley
Lesley
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
13 March
Ted and Cornelia
Ted
Selected essays from 'Readings' (Sven Birkerts)
4 February
Terri and Pat
Terri
Room (Emma Donoghue)
2010
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
12 December
Cornelia
---
No book - social event and gift exchange
26 November
Kathryn
Kathryn
The Winter Vault (Anne Michaels)
22 October
Susan
Susan
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
17 September
Roz and Phil
Roz
The Mistress of Nothing (Kate Pullinger)
18-19 June
Kimberley
Phil
Any current reading
21 May
Lesley
Eva
Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
30 April
Pat and Terri
Pat
Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
27 March
Lesley
Lesley
Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
12 February
Ted and Cornelia
Ted
How Jesus Became Christian (Barrie Wilson)
2009
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
13 December
Cornelia and Ted
Cornelia
A New Earth; Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Eckhart Tolle)
6 November
Terri and Pat
Terri
Too Much Happiness (Alice Munro)
18 October
Stratford
All
Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
26 September
Roz and Phil
All
Recent reading
14 June
Gibbons Park
Susan
White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
17 April
Phil and Roz
Phil
The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
13 March
Eva
Eva
Impressionist Quartet (Jeffrey Meyers)
or The Judgement of Paris (Ross King)
6 February
Roz and Phil
Roz
When Will There Be Good News (Kate Atkinson)
2008
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
5 December
Pat and Terri
Pat
The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
31 October
Ted and Cornelia
Ted
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (Gabor Mate)
19 September
Lesley
Lesley
The Sea Lady (Margaret Drabble)
9-10 May
Kimberley
Terri
Jitters (David French)
28 March
Cornelia and Ted
Cornelia
On Beauty (Zadie Smith)
22 February
Terri and Pat
Susan and Terri
Movie night: Two Days in Paris; Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles
11 January
Susan
Susan
Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks)
2007
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
2 November
Eva
Eva
Perfume (Patrick Suskind)
21 September
Maureen
Maureen
The Birth House (Ami McKay)
22 June
Roz and Phil
Roz
Dancing in the Streets (Barbara Ehrenreich)
11 May
Pat and Terri
Pat
Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
30 March
Cornelia and Ted
Lesley
Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
9 February
Lesley
Ted
Animal Wife, or Reindeer Moon
(Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)2006
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
8 December
Terri and Pat
Terri
Runaway (Alice Munro)
3 November
Cornelia and Ted
Cornelia
Risk Everything (George F. Walker)
15 September
Paul and Carrie
Paul
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
16-18 June
Kimberley
Susan
The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
19 May
Maureen
Maureen
Hanna's Diary (Hanna Spencer)
(Hanna and her editor Carlotta joined us)
10 March
Phil
Phil
The Meaning of Everything (Simon Winchester)
(or substitute his 'The Professor and the Madman')
10 February
Pat and Terri
Pat
Writers on Artists (Daniel Halpern) + lots of slides
6 January
Lesley
Lesley
Never let me go (Kazuo Ishaguro)
2005
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
18 November
Carrie and Paul
Carrie
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
14 October
Ted and Cornelia
Ted
Fortress of Solitude (Jonathan Lethem)
26 July
Terri and Pat
Terri
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
17-20 June
Kimberley
Cornelia
The Eros of Everyday Life (Susan Griffin)
18 May
UWO picnic/Paul and Carrie
Paul
Birthday Letters (Ted Hughes)
22 April
Maureen
Maureen
Hey Nostradamus (Douglas Coupland)
25 February
Susan
Susan
Disgrace (JM Coetzee)
21 January
Phil
Phil
Waking Raphael (Leslie Forbes)
2004
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
3 December
Ted and Cornelia
Ted
The Koran
29 October
Pat and Terri
Pat
Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
24 September
Surbhi
Lesley
A recipe for Bees (Gail Anderson-Dargatz) or
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) or other bee books
11-13 June
Kimberley
Carrie
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
16 April
Lesley
Terri
Property (Valerie Martin)
5 March
Roz and Phil
Surbhi
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
30 January
Cornelia and Ted
Cornelia
Ever Loving (Margaret Hollingsworth)
2003
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
12 December
Roz and Phil
Paul
Karl Marx (Francis Wheen)
31 October
Terri and Pat
Terri
Bound Feet and Western Dress: a Memoir (Pang-Mei Chang)
26 September
Lesley
Pat
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
?
Ted and Cornelia?
Ted?
Independence Day (Richard Ford)
27 June
Susan
Phil
The Vinland Saga
23 May
Cornelia and Ted
Lesley
The Navigator of New York (Wayne Johnson)
28 March
Lesley
Carrie
Stuffed (P. Volk)
14 February
Paul and Carrie
Ted
Glory Boy and other childrens' stories (Ted Goodden et al.)
17 January
Susan's
Susan
Unless (Carol Shields)
2002
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
6 December
Roz and Phil
All
Christmas readings (various authors)
8 November
Ted and Cornelia
Cornelia
Anne Frank's Diary
4 October
Pat and Terri
Paul
John Lennon biographies (various authors)
31 May
Lesley
Susan
Travel books (various authors)
19 April
Paul and Carrie
Phil
Master of None - the Story of Me Life (Ben Wicks)
1 March
Cornelia and Ted
? Roz
White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
25 January
Susan
Cornelia
The Breadwinner (YA novel) (Deborah Ellis)
2001
Date
Location
Chosen by
Title (Author)
14 December
Roz and Phil
All
Christmas poems (meeting finished early for Roz's birthday party)
9 November
Terri and Pat
Susan
Bobos in Paradise (David Brooks)
28 September
Cornelia and Ted
All
any summer reading (various authors)
13 July
Susan
J. Berry?
Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Wayne Johnson)
27 April
Roz and Phil
Ted
The Hidden Lives of Dogs (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
24 March
Pat and Terri
Ted
No Logo (Naomi Klein)
3 February
Cornelia and Ted
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First planning meeting