Torrential downpours do not deter a determined silent book club

Heavy spring rain did not prevent some valiant silent book club members from meeting this past weekend. No readers or books were worse (or soggier) for wear, and even though it was a smaller group, the list of books discussed and read was still rich and robust. As usual, each reader offered capsule reviews of what they had finished or were in the midst of reading – positive or negative, always constructive. The list presented here has no rating system, just a link to either publisher information or generally positive reviews or informational pieces. The list is not inherently a list of recommendations, just a record of what was discussed. Mind you, each meeting’s list is a pretty good list of recommendations, as it continues to reflect a diverse and vibrant range of subjects and genres that might spark the interest of anyone keeping up with the club. And if you start a club yourself, I’m betting you’ll find the very same things!

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(Photo by Jo Nelson)

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(Photo by Jo Nelson)

As always, you can enjoy our previous silent book club meeting reports and book lists here.

We’ve enjoyed some recent coverage by the CBC, on the CBC Toronto web site and via a series of interviews across Canada with CBC Radio.

In addition to the CBC, our silent book club was included in a late 2018 feature about silent book clubs in the international news publication The Christian Science Monitor. Enjoy the article here. San Francisco-based Silent Book Club founders Guinevere de La Mare and Laura Gluhanich are featured in the February 2019 issue of O, the Oprah Magazine, describing the club’s genesis and extolling its virtues as the concept and clubs spread worldwide.

If you’re interested in starting your own silent book club or are in the Toronto area and perhaps interested in checking ours out, please feel free to contact me for more information.

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