At the end of 2017 we’d had enough.
It had been a frantic year. It had been hard to find a calm center. Inspired by friends who were trying to take the slow and quiet path in their lives, we decided to make 2018 better, quieter, slower. We wanted to create a quiet island where our reading lives, at least, could amble at a slower pace. And that's why the Slow Club Book Club was born.
Here’s how it works: each year we choose three or four books that speak to the sloth inside us. Maybe it's a book that's quiet on the surface but has deep currents running underneath. Or maybe it's a book that pulls us out of our busy schedules and into the quiet pace of the land around us. Or maybe it's a book that's absorbing, beautifully written, and encourages us to sit and think. No meetings. No commitments. No shouting. No rushing.
If you’d like to join the slow fun, subscribe to our Slow Club Book Club newsletter. Aside from getting your hands on a copy of selected books and reading at your own pace, signing up is the most work you’ll have to do!
Slowly yours,
Rebecca & Shari
2018 Books
A Whole Life, by Robert Seethaler
Good Woman, by Lucille Clifton
Lost in the City, by Edward P. Jones
A Book of Silence, by Sara Maitland
2019 Books
Our theme for 2019 is Women In Translation.
The Emissary, by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsuntani
Swallowing Mercury, by Wioletta Greg, translated by Eliza Marciniak
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella
2020 Books
Our theme for 2020 is books by Canadian authors.
Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot
Reproduction, by Ian Williams
The Blue Clerk, by Dionne Brand