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Happy Holidays!

Hi all, We've added a bunch of titles to our reading list. I hope you'll check them out and join us! We don't meet in December. With all the holidays, no one seems to have the time to make book club happen that month! In January, we'll read Toronto author Farzana Doctor's newest title, All Inclusive . Very excited and hoping to hook up with Farzana to discuss! In February it's Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. In March we'll read Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta. April's title is The Walk-In Closet by Abdi Nazemian. May we'll read Yabo by Alexis De Veaux. And finally in June we are going to read Vancouver's Amber Dawn in her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life. Keep in touch folks!

reading list update!

Just a quick reading list update! May 2015:  Adult Onset   by Ann-Marie MacDonald June 2015:   For Today I am a Boy   by Kim Fu July 2015:   Frog Music   by Emma Donoghue August 2015:   How To Grow Up   by Michelle Tea September 2015:   Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America   by Rachel Hope Cleves October 2015:   A Cup of Water Under My Bed   by Daisy Hernandez November 2015:   Half World   by Hiromi Goto Yes, I know it's already June. Sudden illness cancelled our May meeting, so our June meeting we'll discuss Adult Onset AND For Today I am a Boy . Some other future possibilities: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha has a memoir coming out in the fall, called  Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home . Lost Boi  by Sassafras Lowrey  Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love Yabo   by Alexis De Veaux The Walk-in Closet   by Iranian-American author Abdi Nazemian How Poetry Saved My Life by Amber Dawn, a memoir

kissing keeps us afloat!

Hi all, Please join us this Monday, even if you don't normally come to book club (I know many of you only attend in spirit!), please come on Monday night! We're reading Laurie MacFayden's kissing keeps us afloat ! And Laurie is going to join us to read and chat! Come! Kim

Shani Mootoo, again!

This month, we're reading Shani Mootoo, AGAIN. What can I say, we like her. Her latest, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab , is our February title. March we are reading local author Laurie MacFayden's kissing keeps us afloat , and Laurie is going to join us to read a little something! Tell all your friends! Bring all your friends! In April, we're going to read Sarah Waters latest, The Paying Guests , and in May, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Adult Onset . In book club news, December's foray into a non-lesbian sci-fi writer seems to have been a terrible failure. One certain member gets a gold star for being the only member to slog through The Left Hand of Darkness ! Three gold stars! and maybe a donut at the next meeting! In fact, I think a star system is just what book club needs for some excitement. One gold star for anyone who finishes the book. Five gold stars if you come equipped with some discussion questions, an interview with the author, or the like. Ten gold