Join us on the first Wednesday of each month virtually to meet others who enjoy reading, share ideas, have lively conversations and make new friends. Everyone welcome. Zoom link:
Date: first Wednesday of each month from 6:30-8 pm
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May 5
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We're hosting the meeting with Zoom, click here to join us on Wednesday, February 3 at 6:30 pm. The meeting password is 512396.
BOOK FOR FEBRUARY - My Name Is Red by Orphan Pamuk
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2517.My_Name_Is_Red
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.
The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power
If you're looking for a book recommendation, here's what the Oaklands Community Book Club has read over the last year. To access books, check out the Greater Victoria Public Library's digital collection here, place an order online with one of Victoria's wonderful local bookstores like Russell Books or Bolen Books (pick up and delivery options available), take a walk to your closest Little Library.
Book Selections
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist by Martina Scholten
The Wind in My Hair by Masih Alinejad
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian by Yusra Mardini
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Our book club facilitator, Negar's, favourite read of 2019 was Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic by Martina Scholtens.
This easy to read and emotional true story, takes us through a busy urban medical clinic for refugees in Vancouver. The human connection and emotional encounters of doctors and patients despite their vastly different cultures are portrayed beautifully, and it was really eye-opening for me to see what the new immigrants and refugees need to overcome in their new homes.
Feel free to add me on GoodReads to see what I'm reading now and talk about books!
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