Monthly Archives: November 2019

Early wintry weather does not deter silent book club stalwarts

sbc-nov15-dog-600Again, like the blog post title says … Even though winter seems to have arrived early and fiercely hereabouts, that did not stop a healthy contingent of dedicated silent book clubbers from coming out on Saturday. Between Press’ delicious hot beverages and pastries, and the waves of enthusiasm as we went round the table, I’m convinced that all booklovers in attendance were thoroughly warmed up before the meeting adjourned.

It’s just such meetings – where we not only touted our good reads, shared with respect our not-so-good reads, and recounted adventures and encounters associated with our reading and book acquisitions – that I know are going to get us through the cold and snow ahead. How wonderful, then, that we’ve been able to double our scheduled meetings – two a month – from December to March. This winter is going to whiz by like a fast-moving skater or toboggan, methinks.

We come away from every meeting not only having shared good books and welcoming, generous company and enjoyed peaceful reading, but having learned a lot or been a bit surprised. As I jotted down book titles and author names during today’s conversations, I found myself also noting interesting terms and quotations. Just for fun, I’m going to weave into the book list some of those intriguing excerpts and snippets.

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Enjoy our previous silent book club meeting reports and book lists here.

We’re pleased and honoured to have been interviewed about the silent book club concept and how to start a club of one’s own.

San Francisco-based Silent Book Club founders Guinevere de La Mare and Laura Gluhanich were most recently featured in a wonderful piece on the NPR web site (yes, National Public Radio, thank you very much!). Extensive and enthusiastic coverage silent book club coverage includes this piece 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.