Reading Group

We are asking you to present a book of your choice (American or Canadian authors preferred) that you have read and really enjoyed. This gives all members who are passionate about reading a chance to read and discuss different literary genres.

Even if you have not read the book, if do not have a book you wish to present, or are able to come just at the last minute, please join us anyway.

Reading Group Contact
(also for venue details)
Geneviève Bergiers
Tel. 02/660.57.65
genevieve@chiropractorbergiers.be

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October 14 – 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Presented by Kim Masiero

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (USA) Tackling the questions of survival, endurance and moral obligation during wartime, this 2015 Pulitzer Prize Fiction winner deftly interweaves the lives of multiple characters and illuminates the ways that people, against all odds, try to be good to one another.

Venue: Geneviève's place

November 18 (!) – 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Presented by Ene Kannel

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (Canada / Sri Lanka) Nominated for the Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction in 1987, the novel depicts the lives of the immigrants whose contributions to building Toronto in the early 1900s never became part of  the city's official history. Ondaatje illuminates the investment of these settlers in Canada, through their labor, while remaining "outsiders" to mainstream society. Ondaatje's later and more famous novel The English Patient is, in part, a sequel to In the Skin of a Lion, continuing the lives of some of the characters.

Venue: to be confirmed

December 9– 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Presented by Geneviève Bergiers

Beloved by Toni Morrison (USA) Written by the first Afro-American who has been attributed the Nobel Prize in Literature, this novel was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.  It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey. Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), this novel was inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner,who escaped slavery in Kentucky in late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state.

Venue: Geneviève's place

January 13 – 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Presented by Laura Richard

The Lesser Blessed by Richard van Camp (Canada) Set in Canada's desolate Northwest Terrorities, the home province of the author, this critically acclaimed novel tells the coming of age of Larry, a Native Canadian teenager. On the surface he is a typical teenage boy, who loves music and has a crush on a local girl. But Larry is also haunted by a dark and abusive past he must learn to come to terms with. Van Camp has written several short stories and children's fiction, but The Lesser Blessed, which has also been turned into a film, remains his best known work.

Venue: Laura's place

More info about the Clubs:

• The Canadian Club of Belgium:
  www.ccbcanada.be
• The American Club of Brussels:
  www.americanclubbrussels.org