Book Club

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month to meet others who enjoy reading, share ideas, have lively conversations and make new friends. Everyone welcome. Coffee and tea provided. 

Date: first Wednesday of each month from 6:30-8 pm

Location: Oaklands Neighbourhood House, 2629 Victor Street.

Please note, our August meeting is cancelled. Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 2.

June's meeting is happening online! We're hosting the meeting with Zoom, click here to join us on Wednesday, September 2 at 6:30 pm. The meeting password is 512396.

We've selected two classics to read for September - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.

With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride. 

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity.

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic.