Events & Programs
✨ BOOK CLUBS ✨
- REGULAR BOOK CLUB -
The Book Clubs below run on a rotational basis, every couple of months (info for current book club below).
How it works:
Registration will open every time we pick a new book to read. You will need to register every time we choose a new book club pick, if you are interested in attending the meeting.
Space is limited, so if you have registered but can't make it to the meeting, please send us an email or call to let us know so we can give your spot to someone else on the waiting list.
Book Club Newsletter:
To be aware of each coming book club-s, you can register for our newsletter on the home page if you scroll all the way to the bottom. Make sure to check your spam inbox once you've subscribed.
How to support the event:
All of our book clubs are free to attend and buying the book with us isn't mandatory. However if you don't already have the book, buying it through us does support Terrier Books.
Alternatively, you can now give a voluntary contribution to the book club.s if you want to support our events directly.
- TERRIER BOOK CLUB -
This is our main, classic book club. The books chosen will be mostly fiction. Perfect for those who like reading to escape reality!
- BOOK TO SCREEN BOOK CLUB -
Read the book & watch the movie/TV show. In most cases, there will be a date set to watch the movie all together before the meeting, where we'll compare both. We'll talk and share what we like and didn't like in both. For all the cinephiles out there!
- BOLD BOOK CLUB -
A book club for the open-minded. Talk and exchange in a safe space, without judgement. Yes, there will be books on sexuality, social justice or other hot topics!
Next Book Club: BOOK TO SCREEN BOOK CLUB
Help us choose our next book club pick by voting in the link below!
Book Pick:
Option 1) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
About the book:
A ghost turns up at the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge’s home on Christmas Eve. It is Jacob Marley, his old business partner who died years before. He has returned with one goal: to show Scrooge the error of his ways before it is too late.He announces that Scrooge will be visited by 3 ghosts before morning, each to show him a vision from Christmas past, present and future and force Scrooge to confront the reality of what he has become. Cruel, heartless and above all, alone. And unless Scrooge cures his bitterness in time for Christmas Day, his heart may be frozen for good.
We will be watching the musical from 2004 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(2004_film)
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Option 2) Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
About the book:
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty, they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash, they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences—and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined.
We will be watching the movie adaptation starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Info & trailer available here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388419/
💚 VOTE HERE💚
(You have until November 5th to vote)
Meeting time:
Thursday, December 10th, 5:30-8:30pm
at the bookstore (6689 Goodmere Road)
> REGISTER HERE <
(registration is free, but space is limited. You can also pre-order a copy of the book with the link above)
-- We have reached our limit of registration for the up-coming book club --
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- SILENT BOOK CLUB® in Sooke -
- Take the first half hour to order your drinks, grab a good seat, and check in with your friends.
- After that, we'll announce the start of the silent reading time (usually 1 hour) and it will be a safe quiet space to read.
- At the end of the reading period, we'll announce that the silent reading time is up and for half an hour, you can continue reading, or like a traditional book club, you can chat with those around you about your current read (get book recommendations and even make a new friend!)