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Food for Thought<br />
<strong>Perth</strong> Bookworms’<br />
The<br />
<strong>Archive</strong><br />
2000 to 2020<br />
The bookworms, the books and the memories
Then... In December, 2003, we gathered at Jaki Harrison’s home for a<br />
Christmas lunch. Left to right: Gerry Rubino, Carol Trischuk, Jacquie<br />
Schaus, Dawn Mayhew, Jaki Harrison, Mary Dummett, Chris McGuire,<br />
Betty Howard, Sheila Hurren, Marjory Nasmith, Marg Barrie.<br />
and now... In December, 2018, we gathered for lunch at Clyde Hall in<br />
Lanark. Back row: Chris McGuire, Muriel Turner, Jean Whieldon, Margie<br />
Brady, Carol Trischuk. Front row: Sheila Hurren, Pat Jones, Karen Hunt,<br />
Betty Howard, Marjory Nasmith.
The people...<br />
The <strong>Perth</strong> Bookworms<br />
In the summer of 2000, Chris McGuire invited the remnants of a<br />
raveling book club, plus enough friends to make up a new<br />
contingent of readers to Huntington Green. From that discussion,<br />
the Bookworms were born. The ground rules were simple, one<br />
meeting and one book a month for 10 months (July and August<br />
were holidays!) and that suggested 10 members in order to meet at<br />
a different home each month. The last ‘rule’ has been bent and<br />
stretched from time to time as potential new members tried us out,<br />
which explains why some of the photos included here contain<br />
eleven people. Two further social traditions were adopted in the<br />
early years: a Christmas lunch at somewhere pleasant, Lanark’s<br />
Clyde Hall being our favourite whenever it is available, and a pot<br />
luck lunch at the June meeting to celebrate summer and a new list<br />
of books to look forward to when we meet again in September.<br />
No one took photos at that first meeting, but the original<br />
Bookworms were Chris, of course, Marg Barrie, Erma Calkins,<br />
Mary Dummett, Jaki Harrison, Betty Howard, Sheila Hurren,<br />
Marjory Nasmith, Gerry Rubino and Carol Trischuk.<br />
Over the 20 years we have been together, there have been<br />
relatively few changes. Five of the originals are still around. But<br />
people move and, sadly people die. As gaps appeared, we have<br />
happily welcomed new friends to fill them with their tastes, insights<br />
and opinions.<br />
Those joining us for brief or longer stints have included Loretta<br />
Brooks , Dawn Mayhew and Jacquie Schaus, and the five current<br />
members who along with the ‘old timers’ make up today’s<br />
Bookworms, Margie Brady, Karen Hunt, Pat Jones, Muriel Turner<br />
and Jean Whieldon. We are all shown together at the bottom of<br />
the facing page.
...and the books...
2000 ~ 2001<br />
Elizabeth and After ~ Matt Cohen<br />
Colony of Unrequited Dreams ~ Wayne Johnson<br />
Into Thin Air ~ Jon Krakauer<br />
Animal Dreams ~ Malika Oufkir<br />
Mrs. King ~ Charlotte Gray<br />
The End of the Affair ~ Graham Greene<br />
The Hours ~ Michael Cunningham<br />
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin ~ Louis des Bernieres<br />
Where the Heart Is ~ Billie Letts<br />
A Good House ~ Bonnie Burard<br />
2001 ~ 2002<br />
Anil’s Ghost ~ Michael Oondatje<br />
Harry Potter and<br />
the Philosopher’s Stone<br />
~ J. K. Rowling<br />
No Great Mischief ~ Alistair McLeod<br />
At Home in Mitford ~ Jan Karon<br />
Icy Sparks ~ Gwyn Hyman Rubio<br />
Barney’s Version ~ Mordicai Richler<br />
Chocolat ~ Joanne Harris<br />
Interpreter of Maladies ~ Jhumpa Lahiri<br />
The Girl in the Picture ~ Denise Chong<br />
The Professor and the Madman ~ Simon Winchester
2002 ~ 2003<br />
A Fine Balance ~ Rohinton Mistry<br />
Divine Secrets<br />
of the Ya Ya Sisterhood<br />
~ RebeccaWells<br />
Clara Callan ~ Richard B. Wright<br />
Stolen Lives:<br />
Twenty Years in a Desert Jail<br />
~ Malika Oufkir<br />
Sisters in the Wilderness ~ Charlotte Gray<br />
The Stone Carvers ~ Jane Urquhart<br />
Too Close to the Falls ~ Catherine Gildener<br />
All Over but the Shootin’ ~ Rick Bragg<br />
In the Skin of the Lion ~ Michael Ondaatji<br />
The Road from Coorain ~ Jill Kerr Conway<br />
2003 ~ 2004<br />
A Recipe for Bees ~ Gail Anderson-Dargatz<br />
Atonement ~ Ian McEwan<br />
Unless ~ Carol Shields<br />
The Polished Hoe ~ Austin Clarke<br />
Last Orders ~ Graham Swift<br />
Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel<br />
Bel Canto ~ Ann Patchett<br />
The Navigator of New York ~ Wayne Johnston<br />
The Wars ~ Timothy Findley<br />
Crow Lake ~ Mary Lawson
2004 ~ 2005<br />
The Last Crossing ~ Guy Vanderhaeghe<br />
Rush Home Road ~ Lori Lansens<br />
Garbo Laughs ~ Elizabeth Hay<br />
English Passengers ~ Matthew Kneale<br />
The In-Between World<br />
of Vikram Lall<br />
~ M. G. Vassanji<br />
Ulysesses ~ James Joyce<br />
The Five People<br />
You Meet in Heaven<br />
~ Mitch Albom<br />
The Sojourn ~ Alan Cumyn<br />
The Da Vinci Code ~ Dan Brown<br />
Green Grass, Running Water ~ Thomas King<br />
2005 ~ 2006<br />
A Blade of Grass ~ Lewis De Soto<br />
The Holding ~ Merilyn Simonds<br />
The House of Mirth ~ Edith Wharton<br />
A Complicated Kindness ~ M iriam Toewes<br />
Deafening ~ Frances Itani<br />
Never Surrender ~ Michael Dobbs<br />
Latitudes of Melt ~ Joan Clarke<br />
Astonishing Splashes of Colour ~ Clare Morrall<br />
By the Lake ~ John McGahern<br />
The Kite Runner ~ Kaled Hussein
2006 ~ 2007<br />
A Short History of Progress ~ RonaldWright<br />
Midnight in the Garden<br />
of Good and Evil<br />
~ John Berendt<br />
Small Island ~ Andrea Levy<br />
Three Day Road ~ Joseph Boyden<br />
Nowhere to Run ~ Mary Jane Clark<br />
Teacher Man ~ Frank McCourt<br />
Behind the Scenes<br />
at the Museum<br />
~ Kate Atkinson<br />
Sylvanus Now ~ Donna Morrissey<br />
Midnight at the Dragon Café ~ Judy Fong Bates<br />
The Hanging of Angelique ~ Afua Cooper<br />
2007 ~ 2008<br />
Sweetness in the Belly ~ Camilla Gibb<br />
The Vanishing Act<br />
of Esme Lennox<br />
~ Maggie O'Farrell<br />
The Truth about Stories ~ Thomas King<br />
The Alchemist ~ Paulo Coelho<br />
Raisin Wine ~ James Bartleman<br />
Rathcormick,<br />
A Childhood Recalled<br />
~ Homan Potterton<br />
The Island Walkers ~ John Bemrose<br />
The Other Side<br />
of the Bridge<br />
~ Mary Lawson<br />
An Equal Music ~ Vikram Seth<br />
The Bookseller of Kabul ~ Asne Seierstad
2008 ~ 2009<br />
Late Nights on Air ~ Elizabeth Hay<br />
My Sister's Keeper ~ Jodi Picoult<br />
My Antonia ~ Willa Cather<br />
The Road ~ Cormac McCarthy<br />
1000 Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini<br />
Remembering the Bones ~ Frances Itani<br />
The Birth House ~ Ami McKay<br />
Midnight's Children ~ Salman Rushdie<br />
Reading Lolita in Tehran ~ Azar Nafisi<br />
The Namesake ~ Jhumpa Lahiri<br />
2009 ~ 2010<br />
Jayber Crow ~ Wendell Berry<br />
The Book of Negros ~ Lawrence Hill<br />
Water for Elephants ~ Sara Gruen<br />
Can You Hear the<br />
Nightbird Call<br />
~ Anita Rau Badami<br />
The Good Thief's<br />
Guide to Paris<br />
~ Chris Ewan<br />
Ride the Rising Wind ~ Barbara Kingscote<br />
Still Alice ~ Lisa Genova<br />
The Outlander ~ Gil Adamson<br />
The Guernsey Literary and<br />
Potato Peel Pie Society<br />
~ Mary Ann Shaffer<br />
and Annie Barrows<br />
The Fat Woman<br />
Next Door is Pregnant<br />
~ Michel Tremblay
2010 ~ 2011<br />
Reading by Lightning ~ Joan Thomas<br />
All that Matters ~ Wayson Choy<br />
Sarah’s Key ~ Titania de Rosnay<br />
Random Passage ~ Bernice Morgan<br />
The Elegance of the<br />
Hedgehog<br />
~ Muriel Barbery<br />
The Bishop’s Man ~ Linden MacIntyre<br />
The Golden Mean ~ Annabel Lyon<br />
The Cellist of Sarajevo ~ Steven Galloway<br />
Three Cups of Tea ~ Greg Mortonson<br />
People of the Book ~ Geraldine Brooks<br />
2011 ~ 2012<br />
Left Neglected ~ Lisa Genova<br />
The Help ~ Katheryn Stockett<br />
The Midwife of Venice ~ Roberta Rich<br />
The House of All Sorts ~ Emily Carr<br />
Cutting for Stone ~ Abraham Verghese<br />
The Forgotten Garden ~ Kate Morton<br />
Remarkable Creatures ~ Tracy Chevalier<br />
Best Laid Plans ~ Terry Fallis<br />
The Mistress of Nothing ~ Kate Pullinger<br />
The Sea Captain's Wife ~ Beth Powning
2012 ~ 2013<br />
The Seven Sisters ~ Margaret Drabble<br />
The Mermaid Chair ~ Sue Monk Kidd<br />
The Postmistress ~ Sarah Blake<br />
Prisoner of Tehran ~ Marina Nemat<br />
The Paris Wife ~ Paula McLain<br />
Annabel ~ Kathleen Winter<br />
Laurier in Love ~ Roy MacSkimming<br />
Half-Blood Blues ~ Esi Edugyan<br />
Requiem ~ Frances Itani<br />
Arthur and George ~ Julian Barnes<br />
2013 ~ 2014<br />
Still Life ~ Louise Penny<br />
The Last Runaway ~ Tracy Chevalier<br />
The Cat’s Table ~ Michael Ondaatje<br />
The Salt Road ~ Jane Johnson<br />
Lakeland: Journey<br />
into the Soul of Canada<br />
~ Allan Casey<br />
An Irish Country Girl ~ Patrick Taylor<br />
Beware this Boy ~ Maureen Jennings<br />
Solar ~ Ian McEwan<br />
February ~ Lisa Moore<br />
The Light Between Oceans ~ M. L. Stedman
2014 ~ 2015<br />
The Goldfinch ~ Donna Tartt<br />
Twelve Years a Slave ~ Solomon Northrup<br />
Road Ends ~ Mary Lawson<br />
Exit Lines ~ Joan Barfoot<br />
The Orenda ~ Joseph Boyden<br />
The Kid from Simcoe Street ~ Jim Clarke<br />
The Massey Murder ~ Charlotte Gray<br />
Gold Diggers: Striking It<br />
Rich in the Klondike<br />
~ Charlotte Gray<br />
Life After Life ~ Kate Atkinson<br />
Dear Life ~ Alice Munro<br />
2015 ~ 2016<br />
The Inconvenient Indian ~ Thomas King<br />
The Nightingale ~ Kristin Hannah<br />
Emancipation Day ~ Wayne Grady<br />
Tell ~ Frances Itani<br />
The Pearl that Broke its Shell ~ Nadia Hashimi<br />
Flee, Fly, Flown ~ Janet Hepburn<br />
A Spool of Blue Thread ~ Anne Tyler<br />
The Children Act ~ Ian McEwan<br />
Orphan Train ~ Christina B. Kline<br />
Sweetland ~ Michael Crummy
2016 ~ 2017<br />
They Left Us Everything ~ Plum Johnson<br />
My Name is Lucy Barton ~ Elizabeth Strout<br />
The Piano Maker ~ Kurt Palka<br />
The Back of the Turtle ~ Thomas King<br />
The Illegal ~ Lawrence Hill<br />
The Crossing ~ Michael Connelly<br />
Secrets of the Blue Trunk ~ Lise Dion<br />
Bone and Bread ~ Seleema Nawaz<br />
In-between Days ~ Teva Harrison<br />
Canoe Country:<br />
The Making of Canada<br />
~ Roy MacGregor<br />
2017 ~ 2018<br />
A Man Called Ove ~ Frederick Backman<br />
The Nest ~ Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney<br />
The Underground Railroad ~ Colton Whitehead<br />
Hotel on the Corner<br />
of Bitter and Sweet<br />
~ Jamie Ford<br />
Capital ~ John Lanchester<br />
Victoria ~ Daisy Goodwin<br />
I Shall Not Hate ~ Izzeldin Abuelaish<br />
Housekeeping ~ Marilynne Robinson<br />
All the Winters After ~ Sere Prince Halverson<br />
Gift from the Sea ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2018 ~ 2019<br />
The Winter Garden ~ Kristin Hannah<br />
Rosie Colored Glasses ~ Brianna Wolfson<br />
The Night Stages ~ Jane Urquhart<br />
Medicine Walk ~ Richard Wagamese<br />
The Boat People ~ Sharon Bala<br />
The Woman in the Window ~ A. J. Finn<br />
Born a Crime ~ Trevor Noah<br />
The Girl Who<br />
Loved Tom Gordon<br />
~ Stephen King<br />
Lion: A Long Way Home ~ Saroo Brierley<br />
The Immortal Life<br />
of Henrietta Lacks<br />
~ Rebecca Skloot<br />
2019 ~ 2020<br />
Half Broke Horses ~ Jeanette Walls<br />
The Day the World<br />
Came to Town<br />
~ Jim DeFede<br />
The Boy who<br />
Harnessed the Wind<br />
~ Kamkwanda and Mealer<br />
A Gentleman from Moscow ~ Amor Towles<br />
Louisa on the Front Lines ~ Samantha Seiple<br />
At the Wolf’s Table ~ Rosella Postorino<br />
Washington Black ~ Esi Edugyan<br />
Spies in the Family ~ Eva Dillon<br />
A Giant’s House: A Romance ~ Elizabeth McCracken<br />
Educated ~ Tara Westover
Two more Christmas lunches at our favorite haunt, Clyde Hall<br />
2006: Back row: Carol Trischuk, Jaki Harrison, Marjory Nasmith, Muriel<br />
Turner, Front row: Sheila Hurren, Betty Howard, Jean Wheildon, Loretta<br />
Brooks, Marg Barrie.<br />
2007: Back row: Chris McGuire, Margie Brady, Carol Trischuk, Jaki<br />
Harrison, Sheila Hurren, Marg Barrie, Muriel Turner. Front row: Betty<br />
Howard, Marjory Nasmith, Jean Whieldon, Loretta Brooks.
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