Saint Augustine once wrote, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” This group is a space to assemble and share a love of literature. It’s a time in our busy lives to converse over coffee and tea about our favorite authors and books, what we like about literature, and what we don’t like! We gather in the Minister’s Office (in the upper level of the parish hall, 61 Dundas Street) on selected days at 2:00 pm.
If you wish to join our group please contact the parish office at 902.466.4270 or [email protected]
The next book up for discussion:
Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood by Wayne Johnston
Thurs, Jan 22nd at 2:00 pm
For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. To the neighbours, he was known as “Jennie’s boy,” a backhanded salute to his tiny, ferocious mother, who felt judged for Wayne’s condition at the same time as worried he might never grow up.
Unable to go to school, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy. During these six months of Wayne’s childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale.
Jennie’s Boy is Wayne’s tribute to a family and a community that were simultaneously fiercely protective of him and fed up with having to make allowances for him. His boyhood was full of pain, yes, but also tenderness and Newfoundland wit. By that wit, and through love—often expressed in the most unloving ways—Wayne survived. -- From Goodreads.com
Unable to go to school, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy. During these six months of Wayne’s childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale.
Jennie’s Boy is Wayne’s tribute to a family and a community that were simultaneously fiercely protective of him and fed up with having to make allowances for him. His boyhood was full of pain, yes, but also tenderness and Newfoundland wit. By that wit, and through love—often expressed in the most unloving ways—Wayne survived. -- From Goodreads.com
Book List for 2025-2026
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The Guest List by Lucy Foley
October 23 at 2pm Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall November 27 at 2pm The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella by Nita Prose December 18 at 2pm January: Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood by Wayne Johnston January 22 at 2pm February: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid February 26 at 2pm March: Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy by Jason Bell March 26 at 2pm April: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles April 23 at 2pm May: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger May 28 at 2pm June: In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom June 25 at 2pm |
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