Adult Book Club Mondays
$0.00 FREE| Start & End Date: | Jan 9, 2023 - Mar 20, 2023 |
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| Day / Time: | Mondays @ 7:00 PM |
| Location: | Centre for Family Literacy, Online via ZOOM |
| Registration Begins: | November 14, 2022 at 9:00 AM |
| Registration Cut-off: | March 14, 2023 at 4:00 PM |
| Number of Events | 10 |
| Description: 18+ Adult Book Club - Monday evenings Have you always wanted to read more? Do you want to learn new words and meet new people? Join us Mondays from 7:00-8:30 to read fairytales, poetry and graphic novels! The Monday Book Club will read two great books over ten weeks: Fierce Fairy Tales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill is a book of poems and stories that reimagine and reinvent fairy tales with a modern twist. We will meet fearless princesses becoming friends with dragons, a new kind of wolf hiding around the corner, and independent heroines who can fight monsters all on their own. Paragraph from the book Fierce Fairy Tales: “It’s an age old story. There is a princess, stuck in a tower, guarded by a dragon who the prince must defeat so he can rescue said princess and they can live happily ever after. You’ve heard it growing up right? Except it's wrong. So here’s the real tale and you can judge for yourself. You see, once upon a time there was a princess, and when she was little, a wise witch came to her in her playroom on a sunny afternoon and said: “Little princess you have a choice, you can choose silence or you can choose a voice.” The second book we will read together is: To This Day by Shane Koyczan. This is an inspiring graphic novel poem that uses art and poetry to talk about bullying, hard times and the personal strength that helps people to overcome difficult experiences. Paragraph from the book To This Day: “I am not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called. And we got called them all… We were freaks, lobster claw boys and bearded ladies. Oddities. Juggling depression and loneliness, playing solitaire spin the bottle, trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal.” If the paragraphs from the books are not at your reading level we would love to help! Check out the Adult Tutor program above or send us an email (programs@famlit.ca). Each adult who registers will receive a FREE Kit including the books that you need to participate in this weekly program! |
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