We had a small but lively bookclub on April 20. We had a suitcase with clues of famous authors so we could guess their identities with just a few clues, just as the orphans of the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls had to do! Some of us had read a few titles from the series - Shattered Glass, Small Bones, A Big Dose of Lucky and My Life Before Me. http://www.readthesecrets.com/
The Neill Room at the Masonville Branch now has two different art collections of work by members of the Masonville Mother Daughter Book Club -- in addition to the wonderful archive book we created, this leaves a great legacy behind as we all move out into the world.
Wednesday, May 18 will be the "Concluding chapter" in the 8th year of of the Masonville Mother Daughter Book Club! The book club started in September 2008 under the direction of librarian Lindsay Holdsworth, who is now Lindsay Harris, with two beautiful small children! It continued later under Jessica Kipp, and since November 2012 with me, Linda Bussière. Lately our book club members lives have become increasingly busy, and our numbers declined significantly. In addition, I am about to embark on a year's leave of absence, so we thought we bid farewell on a high note!
The Masonville Mother Daughter Book Club read close to 70 titles all told, we've repeated only one book: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett read in January 2010 and April 2013.
We read TWO books by each of these THREE authors: Kenneth Oppel (The Boundless, This Dark Endeavour); Deborah Ellis (My Name is Parvana, The Breadwinner); Lewis Carroll (Alice Through the Looking Glass, Alice in Wonderland).
It has been exciting and a learning experience for me as a librarian to have shared so many books with you all. Both mothers and daughters had wise and insightful comments on not just the books we read, but on life! We did crafts together, put on a Reader's Theatre play, watched movies and traded stories. We learned about each other and ourselves through the books we read.
Thank you to all who participated and to the staff at the Masonville Library who supported this program. Here's to a lifelong love of books and libraries wherever you are and wherever your lives take you!
All the best,
Linda B.
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library." -- Albert Einstein
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