New Format for Book Club

Next month we will be dicussing the book We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. This is our last selection for the year. In November we will hold a meeting to choose our next round of books which we will begin in January 2008. The members of the book club who were at the meeting last night decided to change the format of the book selection process. We are going to choose books within eight genres rather than voting on one book from each member's nominations. All members are invited to bring one book for each genre/category, and all members will then vote on those nominated. The categories are:

Non-fiction
Classic novel (pre-20th Century)
Canadian Literature
Sci-fi / Fantasy
Children's Literature
Film Adaptation (a novel that has been made into a movie)
Prize Winner (a novel that has won a major literary prize)
20th Century Literature

If there is time and interest at the end of the eight months we will choose a play to read and discuss at the next meeting. This can be a cold reading, and will make for an easy and entertaining book club meeting.

One other note: if you are not going to be able to commit to attending the majority of the book club meetings during 2008, we would ask that you refrain from nominating books during the selection process. It is important that we have a general idea of how many people will be coming to the meetings each month so that we don't end up with only two people having read the novel. We will be inviting new members to join the club in the hopes that we can boost our numbers at the monthly meetings. You are still more than welcome to join us during the book club meetings that are of interest to you.