Colouring Books Sisterhood

 Beautiful days of summer
are perfect
for reading and
talking about books!
 
 Join us
Wednesday, July 29th 2015 7:30 pm
for
Smoke River by Krista Foss
 
 
 
 
 
 "This searing, sensual novel is an adventure not to be missed"
The Globe and Mail
 
 
Don't miss the adventure
Join us 
on June 24th at 7:30pm
for
Matadora by Elizabeth Ruth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MADDADDAM is the book
up for discussion
at our next meeting  
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
7 pm
Drop by and join us!
 
 
 
 
 COLOURING BOOK SISTERHOOD
will be meeting
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
at 6 p.m.
to discuss 

Joyner's Dream
by
Sylvia Tyson
 
call the Bookstore at 344-7979
for details
  
 
March's Meeting
 Colouring Book Sisterhood will be meeting on
Wednesday, March 26th at 7:30 p.m.
to discuss
Pure Gold Baby
by Margaret Drabble
Please drop in and join the discussion! 
 
 
 
 
 
Meeting in February!
 
Colouring Book Sisterhood's next meeting will be
Wednesday, February 19th at 7:30 p.m.
We will be discussing 
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
(A Mostly True Memoir)
by Jenny Lawson
 
 
 
 
 
First Meeting of 2014!
The next meeting of the Colouring Book Sisterhood will be 
Wednesday, January 8th at 7:30 p.m.  
The book for discussion will be 
Your Mouth is Lovely by Nancy Richler. 
 
Your Mouth is Lovely By Richler, Nancy
 
 
Meeting in November 
 
The Colouring Book Sisterhood will meet Wednesday, November 27th 
at 7:30 p.m. when we will be discussing The Douglas Notebooks 
by Christine Eddie, translated by Sheila Fischman.
 
 The Douglas Notebooks
 
 
Meeting in October 
 
 
Coming up this month we have another meeting of the 
Colouring Books Sisterhood planned.  This time the 
meeting will focus on discussing The Deception of Livvy Higgs by 
Donna Morrissey.  
 
A completely engrossing novel, this book will keep 
you engaged until the very end.  So come by the store 
on October 30th at 7:30pm and join in the 
discussion about The Deception of Livvy Higgs.  
 
 
 
 
 
  
Back for Fall
 
The Colouring Books Sisterhood will return 
in September to discuss the first book of 
Hilary Mantel's brilliant books on 
Tudor England, Wolf Hall. 
 
Mantel's Wolf Hall was praised by the 
Globe and Mail as "brilliant, sumptuous 
or wanton as occasion demands" and 
won the prestigious Man Booker Prize. 
 
Make sure to drop by the Northern 
Woman's Bookstore on Wednesday, 
September 18th at our new time of 
7:30pm to discuss this magnificent novel.
 
 
   
 
Selection for June
  
 Join the Colouring Books Sisterhood on 
 Wednesday, June 26 at 7:00 pm to discuss 
 a book of short stories by the wonderful Alice 
 Munro.  
 
  No Love Lost is a collection of short stories which 
  focus on the many experiences of falling in love.  
  A worthy read because, as Jane Urquhart writes, 
  "as would be expected of a writer of Munro's brilliance, 
  there [are] many lessons to be learned from the 
  author's wisdom."  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Make sure to drop by the Northern Woman's Bookstore on June 26 at 7:00 pm for 
an engaging discussion about one of Canada's most treasured authors. 
 
 
 Meeting in May
The Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club is planning to 
 
to meet Wednesday, May 29th at 7:00pm 
 
at the Northern Woman's Bookstore.  
 
 
The book selected for May is 
South of an Unnamed Creek, a classic 
by Anne Cameron.  
 
 
Stop by the store to pick of your copy of this 
wonderful novel. 
 
 
   
 
First Meeting of the New Year!
 
2013 will be off to a great start for the Colouring Books 
Sisterhood Book Club with plans for the next meeting.  
On January 23rd, at 7:00pm the Sisterhood will be 
discussing Inside by Alex Ohlin.  This wonderful book was 
short-listed for both the Giller Prize and the Writer's Trust Prize 
in 2012, and will likely inspire engaging discussions.  
 
Make sure to mark your calendar and drop by the Northern 
Woman's Bookstore on January 23rd to join in, as the 
Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club discusses Inside, 
by Alex Ohlin.
 
 
November Meeting, Take 2
Unfortunately, November's meeting on Wed, Nov 28 had to be postponed.  
 
So coming up on Wednesday, December 12 at 7:00pm the Colouring Books 
Sisterhood Book Club will meet to discuss The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richlier.
  
November Meeting
The next meeting of the Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club will 
be on Wednesday, November 28 - 7:00pm.
 
The book selected for this month's discussion is 
The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler.     
Short-listed for the Giller Prize, the Giller jury described The 
Imposter Bride as "a wonderfully nuanced work of fiction by 
a master of the craft." 
 
Make sure to drop by the store Nov 28 at 7pm to join in the 
discussion about this wonderful novel.  Everyone is welcome. 
   
 
October Meeting
In October the Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club will be meeting 
on Wednesday, October 31st to discuss The Reinvention of Love  
by Helen Humphries.
 Helen Humphries will be coming to Thunder Bay in early November to 
participate in the upcoming International Festival of Authors, where she 
will discuss her work.
 
Everyone is welcome to drop by the store at 7:00pm on October 31st 
to discuss The Reinvention of Love. 
 
 
 
September meeting
 
This month the Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club will meet on Wednesday, 
September 26 to talk about the newest book club selection:
                                           
 
 
    Dogs at the Perimeter  by Madeleine Thien, which is a great read 
 and a wonderful opportunity to review some Canadian fiction before 
 meeting the author.  Madeleine Thien will be visiting Thunder Bay 
 as part of the International Festival of Authors  on November 2   
 alongside a couple of amazing Canadian authors.
  
 
 
Meeting in August
In August the Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club will meet on Wednesday, August 22nd
to discuss Six Metres of Pavement  by Farzane Doctor.
 
 Everyone is welcome to come by the store and discuss Farzane Doctor's 
 moving second novel.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Meeting in June:
This month the Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club will meet Wednesday, June 20th 
at 7:00pm at the Northern Woman's Bookstore, 65 South Court Street.
 
 
The book selection for this month is  Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls.  
An engaging story about Lily Casey Smith - a character described as 
spectacularly compelling and based on the life of the author's grandmother.  
"Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic 
as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. 
Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere."  
 
For more about Half Broke Horses, click here. 
 
Upcoming meeting in May:
 
The  Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club will meet Wednesday May 23rd at 8:00pm instead of 
the usual 7:00pm start time.  
 
This month's book selection is State of Wonder  by Ann Patchett.  State of Wonder is described as 
"a tale that leads the reader into the very heart of darkness, then shows us what lies on the other side." 
 
 
Coming up for April:
 
The next meeting for the Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club is 
        April 25 at 7:00pm at the Northern Woman's Bookstore, 65 South Court Street.
 
This month's book selection is Ten Good Seconds of Silence  by Elizabeth Ruth.  We hope to see you 
there! 
 

The Colouring Books Sisterhood Book Club's next meeting is
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21st, 2012
7 p.m. at the Northern Woman's Bookstore.
The book for discussion is HALF-BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan -- winner of the 2011 Giller Prize.
Hope to see you!
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We started the Colouring Books Sisterhood book club in 2003. We decided to group the books we 
would read into themes. The first theme was "Colours."
The books we read included:  
red       The Red Tent           Anita Diamant 
blue      Girl in Hyacinth Blue  Susan Vreeland
orange   Tamarind Mem           Anita Rau Badami
 purple    Fingersmith            Sarah Waters
 green     Monkey Beach           Eden Robinson
 yellow    Peel My Love like an Onion  Ana Castillo
 

Here are a few past notes on our Colour sessions:

 1.

For those who didn't make it to the Fingersmith session--TOO BAD!!!! We had a great gab-fest, and, actually, spent the first hour talking about body image, fashion--and not only in the Victorian age, but today, and the differences and similarities there are between us and Sue and Maud.  We talked about pornography and/or erotica, about subverting Harlequin romances, about female "madness", about dirt, about, gosh, our daughters.  About contemporary Western women's labial cutting. Yes. believe it. Paring of the lips. Ouch!

Sharon brought in a booklet that she made that step-by-step showed the layers of undergarments "proper" Victorian women would wear. I read a bit from a book published in 1882  Eve's Daughters and we howled about "sozzlers" -- those "non-proper" women who didn't wear the proper undergarments and their body parts sozzled all over the place!  And did you know that the tight lacing of corsets of the Victorian age caused women to get red-tipped noses as the blood would rush to her nose and literally start to drip out! No wonder hankies were so de rigeur! It was your underwear calling!

 

2. On Girl in Hyacinth Blue   Girl in Hyacinth Blue

apocrypha. L. secret and uncanonical.
                 G. hidden apokryphos, from verb apokryptein 'to hide away.' The root v. kryptein  'to hide' is   also the source of the English words crypt and cryptic


The quote that I read on the colour RED is from Clarissa Pinkola Estes' book Women Who Run With the Wolves:

"Red is the color of sacrifice, of rage, of murder, of being killed. Yet red is also the color of vibrant life, dynamic emotion, arousal, eros, and desire. It is a color that is considered strong medicine for psychic malaise, a color which rouses appetite. There is throughout the world a figure known as the red mother. She is not as well known as the black mother or madonna, but she is the watcher of 'things coming through.' She is especially propitiated by those who are about to give birth, for whosoever leaves this world or comes into this world has to pass through her red river. Red is a promise that a rising up or a borning is soon to come." (102)


Interestingly, it's the (red) blood of the handsome youth Hyacinth that through the (red) rage and desire of Zephyrs, the West Wind, enters the earth to be re-born as hyacinth blue, or violet-blue. I just thought, as I typed in Blue and Red in the Subject of this email, that it was a syncronicity that I put them in this order as Blue and Red together make........the next colour on the list: Purple!
 
Then I thought, in life, do we get to purple, the colour of wisdom, only after going through the (blue) river of (red) blood (struggle and pain)? That seeing red and being blue are necessary parts of maturity?