A Little Catching Up
Our June Event sold out quickly with only 1 email sent out! I didn’t write a blog note. It was a wonderful feeling to see so many of you enthusiastic about our evenings out. As many of you may already know, this is a one-woman show. I do it for the love of reading and community building. It is a source of joy, not a source of income. I am so happy that it resonates with others and always grateful to Bev, who started An Appetite for Reading more than a decade ago.
I was born in K-W, and my 5 children grew up here. I live in Waterloo with my two Bernese Mountain Dogs and a cat named Tux. Sometimes my house is full of my adult children and grandchildren, but other times it is quiet enough to enjoy reading a good book. I welcome your help in spreading the word to your friends. If you can’t make it, I encourage you to take the reading suggestions, which are available at Words Worth Books. Supporting local businesses and Canadian authors has always been a central value for An Appetite For Reading.
Heather Birrell’s novel, born, was our June novel. If you were not able to get a ticket. I still recommend you grab a copy of Heather’s masterful novel. It touched so many topics and inspired thoughtful conversation. To read more about it, here is a link to Heather’s website: https://heatherbirrell.com/ After we met I read it again!
Our group honours the Canadian tradition of a summer break. Thank goodness because I am fully into the FIFA World Cup! Go Canada Go!!! But I have planned for September, so you have something to read when it is too hot for anything else. Christine Fischer Guy has visited us before and is coming back to discuss her new novel, The Instrument Must Not Matter. In this sweeping coming-of-age novel, gifted young classical pianist Lila Rys finds herself in New York City studying under famed teacher George Vrubel. The move from Toronto to the American city is terrifying, but Lila is determined to bring music back to the Rys family, where the story of her grandmother refusing to play Soviet music after their tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 is family lore. Accompanied by her brother, Lucas, who is studying at NYU, Lila struggles to navigate the classical musical world and become the successful performer she’s expected to be. But in New York she has a romantic encounter with a renegade pianist and everything she knows about herself is turned upside down, until her brother discovers dissident literature that holds the stories her grandmother had not passed on, and Lila learns how to set her love for her family, and her music, free.
Based on the June response, I encourage you to click the “buy a ticket” tab above without delay and consider joining us in September.
See you soon!
Alison