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Check out one of these recommendations and join a virtual discussion. Discussions take place every six weeks (approx) on a Tuesday evening via Zoom.
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Books chosen are tried to be made available as books and audio books through The St. Catharines Public Library
RiverBrink Reads is generously sponsored by Some Day Books
*Let Some Day Books know you are participant of RiverBrink Reads and receive a 15% discount when you order the book from through them
Books chosen are tried to be made available as books and audio books through The St. Catharines Public Library
Currently Reading...
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Grant Hayter-Menzies Woo, The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr: A Biography (Douglas & McIntyre, 2019)
Although Emily Carr is now considered a Canadian legend, the most enduring image is that of her pushing a beat-up old pram into downtown Victoria, loaded with dogs, cats, birds—and a monkey. Woo, a Javanese macaque, was adopted by Carr in 1923 and has become inextricably linked with the artist in the popular imagination. But more than that, in her short lifetime Woo became equally connected to Carr’s life and art. Hayter-Menzies approaches his subject from a contemporary perspective on bringing wild animals into captivity while remaining empathetic to the unique relationship between artist and monkey. Join us for a virtual discussion led by Barbara Seeber (Professor of English Language and Literature, Brock University) POSTPONED
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Previously Read
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador, 2016)
Ross King, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, (Douglas McIntyre 2010)
Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lillies (Penguin Random House, 2016)
Katherine Ashenburg, Sofie & Cecelia (Penguin Random House, 2018)
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (Penguin Random House, 2010)
Blake Gopnik, Warhol, (Harper Collins Canada, 2020)
Emma Donoghue, Akin, (Harper Collins Canada, 2019)
Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter, (Penguin Random House, 1997)
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone, (Penguin Random House Canada, 1985)
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, (Picador, 2021)
Dominic Smith The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, (Sarah Crichton Books, 2016)
Ross King, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, (Douglas McIntyre 2010)
Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lillies (Penguin Random House, 2016)
Katherine Ashenburg, Sofie & Cecelia (Penguin Random House, 2018)
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (Penguin Random House, 2010)
Blake Gopnik, Warhol, (Harper Collins Canada, 2020)
Emma Donoghue, Akin, (Harper Collins Canada, 2019)
Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter, (Penguin Random House, 1997)
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone, (Penguin Random House Canada, 1985)
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, (Picador, 2021)
Dominic Smith The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, (Sarah Crichton Books, 2016)