I hope you’re all wading your way through At Home, and hopefully finding bits (or chunks) here and there that grab your attention. Take notes! Dogear your pages! Use the highlight feature in your eReader! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to finish the book, AND remember what you wanted to talk about. 

For the month of May, we’ve settled on The Birth House, by Ami McKay. This book was shortlisted for CBC Radio’s Canada Reads program in 2011, and although it didn’t win, it has garnered worldwide critical acclaim.  The story is set in rural Nova Scotia in the time leading up the First World War. An obstetrition comes to a tiny Maritime town and opens up his shiny new clinic in which to deliver babies, pitting him against the local midwife. The story details life in a small Eastern Canadian town, but it is set against a backdrop of tumultuous societal upheaval. I can’t wait. We’ll have lots to discuss, I’m sure.

Our next meeting will be on April 26, and our May meeting will be held on the 31st.  Mark your calendars!