March sees the Tsawwassen Evening Book Club celebrate 10 years of reading together.
The club, which has read a total of 120 books (12 per year since conception), meets at the Tsawwassen Library on the second Thursday of every month to discuss the current title.
According to Lynne Sheehy, original book club member and list keeper of all books read, the club’s first meeting was on March 10, 2005 and the first book read was The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
Ten years later, members are reading Goodnight June by Sarah Jio.
The club was so popular that it eventually generated another book club that meets in the afternoon on the same day each month.
Member Marie Bach values the great conversation about all kinds of books they probably would never have chosen on their own.
In recognition of the group’s history with Fraser Valley Regional Library, library staff will provide tea/coffee and goodies at the next meeting, set for Thursday, March 12 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
New members are welcome at all Delta library book clubs, which provide opportunities to meet fellow book lovers and discuss selected titles.
Call or visit the library to learn which book is being discussed this month. Copies of the current month’s book are available at the library.
Pick up the latest copy of At Your Library, FVRL’s program guide, for dates and times of all library-based book clubs.
The Fraser Valley Regional Library Book Discussion Groups Collection currently has 325 titles in its inventory and supplies a total of 145 book clubs.
Besides the library book clubs, Tsawwassen Library provides title sets to 14 other book clubs, George Mackie Library to six book clubs and Ladner Pioneer Library supplies sets to five book clubs.
