Happy Canada Day!

In honour of Canada's 150 celebration Wanda managed to colour coordinate the whole evening in red and white.  We all appreciated your creativity, Wanda.  Everything was wonderful. You made it an evening to remember.

Breakfast at the Chaliapin 

The book that we chose for our discussion this time was A Gentleman in Moscow, a clever comedy of manners which showcased the Moscow Metropol Hotel. In case you haven't visited the Metropol you can learn all about it and book a stay here where even the standard rooms have "noble and refined decor...for guests with children the hotel offers adjacent rooms connected by doorways".

Please remember that our next book club will be on August 3rd at Jane's home.  The book for that evening will be The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley.

Planning ahead we decided to meet on September 11th at Janice's place.  The book will be A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.

We decided on dates and locations for the following three months, as follows:

• October 16th at Jo's
• November 2nd at Lynda's
• December 13th at Marian's 

We will leave the question of which books to read on these dates for another time.  Keep thinking about suggestions. 

Books that we mentioned: 

• The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
• The Break by Katerena Vermette
• The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols 
• Making it Up by Penelope Lively
• Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 
• The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

On the screen you may want to look for:

• Occupied (Netflix)
• A Man Called Ove (Netflix)
• Genius (National Geographic)
• Black Mirror (Netflix)

Recommended lecture series options this fall:

• Learning Unlimited Etobicoke 
• Lifelong Learning Mississauga