I love my friends dearly, but we can’t keep our book club going to save our lives. Even when we do finally settle on one book, which of course we argue about relentlessly before finally drawing straws or resorting to RPS…once we get together for our meeting it’s all life and laughs and copious amounts of food and wine, and not a whole lot of nitty gritty on the actual book.
Enter Vancouver is Awesome and their awesome book club, which profiles publications from local writers with a meeting every few weeks or so, often with the author present to participate in the discussion. My inaugural VIA book club session will be tomorrow night, where we’ll delve into Michael Christie’s The Beggar’s Garden, a compilation of 9 short stories relating in some small or significant way to the Downtown Eastside. I live in the DTES, I run my business and my life out of this neck of the woods, so this book certainly had appeal on that level. Plus I love the cover, and the author is cute, and his success makes me think if I just sat down and committed to write a book one day this kind of genius will just spill right out of me.
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Even if you haven’t yet picked up this book, I’d advise that you attend tomorrow night and join the VIA book club for the next round of reading.
See you there!
Monday February 28, 7-9pm, Waldorf Hotel
