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The Bloor West Classic Book Club meets once a month to discuss prize-winning and classic literature.
New members are welcome to join our group. Please send me an email with some information about yourself if you're interested in joining or are looking for more information. Members do not need to participate in all meetings, but you may get hooked after the first one!
Meetings are generally held in public places, such as coffee shops or at member's homes once a month on a weekday for approximately 2 hours. We attempt to choose meeting locations within walking distance of a subway stop, west of University along Bloor Street. This seems to be ideal for people in the area, as well as those coming from downtown or the Mississauga area from work.
We currently have 4 regular, contributing members. Members are currently an equal mix of male and female and are within the ages of 25 to 30, but all age groups are welcome. Despite the word 'classic', we're far from stuffy; if anything, we're a very knowledgeable and passionate bunch with full bookcases.
We currently have a patented system, whereby books are chosen that all members want to read (what a 'novel' idea)!
We do not read books that are 'mindless', 'questionably literature' or have a big 'O' on them. Big 'O' books are generally frowned upon, unless they are widely considered classics (ie: anything by Steinbeck, Hemingway, etc). We generally all have the opinion that books are meant to stimulate the mind, so our selections generally reflect that.
1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
2. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
6. Tess of D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
7. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
8. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (April 2008)
9. The Red and the Black by Stendhal (May 2008)
We're a new book club, with a lot to offer. What makes us unique includes the way we choose books that all our members want to read and the fact that we read prize-winning and classic novels only. Carol Shields, Danielle Steele and Steven King have politely been asked to leave, while the spirits of Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Steinbeck go about enhancing our lives. We're constantly in search of Salinger, but we respect his desire for peace.
We hope to see you at one of our meetings, in the near future.