by Deborah Rogers –
Is one of the commitments you’ve made for 2017 to read more? To do something social? To join a group and meet your community? Maybe just to do something for yourself? Well great news: Seaside Magazine is launching a Book Club, so you can satisfy all of those resolutions!
We’re excited to be working together with Sidney/North Saanich Library, connecting readers with readers and hopefully having some great discussions and good fun along the way! The idea is to select one book to read and discuss each month. Those that wish to come along to an informal discussion are welcome at our monthly meeting, but maybe you’d just like to read along at home, or with a group of friends or colleagues. We’ll be hosting some of the post-meeting debate on our website and in this column of the magazine, and welcome feedback and comment along the way.
Thanks to all those who came along to our first meeting. It was a great opportunity to meet each other and find out what everyone wants from a book club. Meeting dates for 2017 have now been set and those who attended the meeting have copies of our first book (actually books) to read. It was agreed that a p
./wide range of books would give the most varied discussion and we’re kicking off in quite some style with a graphic novel and short non-fiction selection!
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, January 18 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Nell Horth Room, Sidney/North Saanich Library. We’ll be discussing Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Pico Iyer’s The Art of Stillness. Please ensure you have read the books if you plan to attend the meeting.
You can keep up-to-date with the Seaside Magazine Book Club on our website – www.seasidemagazine.ca/book-club – or contact deborah@seasidemagazine.ca if you’d like to subscribe to our mailing list.
Are you in a book club already? Let us know what you’re reading – we might want to read it too!
