Book Clubs


LOCAL BOOK CLUBS 

Pages Book Club

Looking for new members! The group meets in the library the second Monday of each month at 1:00 p.m.

Contact Nora at 403-995-1587 for more information.

Okotoks Evening Readers

A new evening book club is forming and looking for members. The group will meet in the library the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m.

Contact Kristine at 403-995-4333 for more information.

Okotoks Public Library
Eager Readers Book Club!

The Okotoks Public Library’s Eager Readers Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of the month at the library. Join us for good reads and great conversation! Light refreshments provided. Registration required. To join our Book Club, please call the library at 403-938-2220.

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Date:       Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Time:       7:00 – 8:00 PM

I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
Date:       Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Time:       7:00 – 8:00 PM

Something Missing by Matthew Dicks
Date:       Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Time:       7:00 – 8:00 PM

The History of Love by Nicola Krauss
Date:       Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Time:       7:00 – 8:00 PM

Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Date:       Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Time:       7:00 – 8:00 PM

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Date:       Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Time:       7:00 – 8:00 PM

MEETING ROOMS 

Starting your own book club? The Okotoks Public Library has meeting rooms available to rent if you're interested in holding your book club meetings at the library. Contact Kelly at the Library for more information at 403-938-2220.
 

GETTING STARTED

Here are some websites to help you get started!


BOOK CLUB-IN-A-BOX!

The Okotoks Public Library has a great resource for local Book Clubs! Our Book Club-in-a-Box kits contain 6 copies of a title and a Reading Group Discussion Guide. These kits have a six week loan period.

*click on the title to go to the catalogue record for more information or to place the kit on hold.

FICTION:

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Pope Joan by Diana Woolfolk Cross

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

Something Missing by Matthew Dicks

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory

The Man Game by Lee Henderson

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

Emily Hudson by Melissa Jones

The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi

The History of Love by Nicola Krauss

Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos

The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens

The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Annabel by Kathleen Winter

Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard by Richard B. Wright

NON-FICTION:

I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali

A Wolf at the Table: a memoir of my father by Augusten Burroughs

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

The Happiness Project: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

Changing My Mind by Margaret Trudeau

The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls

For more Book Club-in-a-Box Kits provided by the Marigold Library System, click here.

LITERARY KALEIDOSCOPE (Calgary)

Literary Kaleidoscope is a lecture series for book-lovers. It is open to the general public and everyone is welcome.
Literary Kaleidoscope meets within sight of the Rockies and the Elbow River at the Southern Alberta Pioneers Building.
3625 – 4th Street S.W.
 
Sessions start at 9:45 a.m. with time for a visit over a cup of coffee and cookie. $10 per session, please pay at the door.

Wednesday                            A Lily of the Field
January 18, 2012                  by John Lawton

Speaker:                                 Margaret Hadley
 
A Lily of the Field by John Lawton opens in Vienna in 1934 with Meret Voytek, a 10 year old cello prodigy, who later becomes a member of Hitler’s Youth Orchestra. We are subsequently introduced to Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist who has been interned by the British and sent to New Mexico to work on the atomic bomb.
At the mid-point of the story we meet Inspector Troy living in post-war London, and investigating a shooting on the London underground.  These disparate threads, together with the music of Debussy, are intelligently woven into a compelling work of detective fiction. Lawton’s novel contains a wealth of period detail, and fascinating insights into life in London after the war.
 
Margaret Hadley is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.  She teaches poetry and prose of the Renaissance and has an interest in detective, mystery and crime fiction.

 
Wednesday                               State of Wonder
February 15, 2012                    by Ann Patchett

Speaker:                                    Dr. Adrienne Kertzer
 
This is another excellent Patchett work. The compelling story takes us from an R&D centre in the Minnesota flatlands to the remotest region of the Amazon jungle. It is a tale that leads you into the very heart of darkness, and then shows what lies on the other side.

Dr. Adrienne Kertzer has spoken to us before on books that come within her special areas of interest, children’s literature and Holocaust literature. State of Wonder will take her in the direction of yet another area of interest, “women’s writing”. This book is an embodiment of that in both author and subject.

Wednesday                             Cool Water
March 21, 2012                      by Dianne Warren

Speaker:                                  Sharon Butala    
 
Cool Water, an authentic, beautifully-written story about life in a small town on the prairies was the 2010 winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. The jury described the author’s first novel as “exquisitely constructed” and said that “her narrative flows seamlessly from character to character, all stunningly depicted.”  It is a rich and colourful paean to the land and a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.

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