Anna Pilato – founder & chair

Valentine’s Day is the poet’s holiday – Ted Kooser

A book club for everyone…

Please email me if you will not be attending the book club meeting, and if not attending… please include how you would like to receive book #22.

Please remember to bring your borrowed library book “Scarborough”

I will have copies for everyone of book #22: “The Prison Book Club” :
A daring journalist goes behind bars to explore the redemptive power of books with bikers, bank robbers, and gunmen.
An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked her to participate in a bold new venture in a men’s medium security prison, Ann had to weigh her curiosity and desire to be of service against her anxiety and fear.  But she signed on, and for eighteen months went to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting a group of heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. There was no wine and cheese, no plush furnishings. But a book club on the inside proved to be a place to share ideas and regain a sense of humanity.  From The Grapes of Wrath to The Cellist of Sarajevo, Outliers to Infidel, the book discussions became a springboard for frank conversations about loss, anger, redemption, and loneliness. The books changed the men and the men changed Walmsley.   Written with compassion and humour, The Prison Book Club is an eye-opening look at inmates and the penal system, and the possibilities of redemption.

OUR MEETING DATES FOR THE YEAR

Please use the handy contact form in the sidebar to let me know if you will not be attending this month’s book club meeting and please include how you would like to receive the next book.