St. George’s Book Club – Tentative Schedule for 2012-2013

The book club normally meets at 7.00 p.m. on the second Monday of each month from October to June at St. George’s Reformed Episcopal Church, 134 Emerson.  Retired McMaster professor John Ferns leads the book club.

Oct. 15 (this is the third Monday, as Thanksgiving is on the second Monday):  William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1596). The play is being performed at the Dundas Driving Park on Friday, Aug. 17, at 7.30 p.m.  The Bard’s Bus Tour (Driftwood Theatre) has been calling in Dundas for the last three seasons.  It is pay-what-you-can.  For more information see driftwoodtheatre.com.

Nov. 12:   Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters (1866).

Dec. 10:  Christmas Celebration in Words and Music.  Bring something you would like to read, sing, or play.  Please check with book-club leader John Ferns about the length of your performance so that we can organize a schedule.

Jan. 14:  Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920).

Feb. 11: T he Modernist  Poem, possibly including poems of World War I, T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland (1922), and W. B. Yeats’ s “The Second Coming.”

March 11:  Charlotte Gray, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susannah Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill (1999).

April 8:  D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915).

May 13:  William Golding,  The Spire (1964).

June 10:  Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004).

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