{"id":2728,"date":"2014-08-06T01:36:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T01:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:36:29","slug":"welcome-to-the-word-on-the-street-book-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/welcome-to-the-word-on-the-street-book-club-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Word On The Street Book Club!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Word On The Street has selected four great Canadian reads by authors appearing at the 2014 festival as part of our first summer book club.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be discussing the books each week throughout the summer, and on September 21st, everyone will\u00a0have the chance to meet the authors in person at Queen&#8217;s Park Circle. &#8216;Tis the season for beach and park reading, so let&#8217;s get the conversation started!<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t an &#8216;official&#8217; member of the book club, that shouldn&#8217;t stop you from joining in with your thoughts\u00a0in the comments of the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the tabs above to check out the discussion questions our intrepid Book Club Leaders have come up with!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Man in the Shadows<br \/>\n<\/strong>Gordon Henderson<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torontowots.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/manintheshadows.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2314 size-thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/torontowots.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/manintheshadows.jpg?w=99\" alt=\"ManInTheShadows\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book Club Leader: Lila Campbell<\/p>\n<p>Lila is an editor in Toronto. She has been a book lover as far back as she can remember and is never without a novel in her purse. Always looking for new reading experiences, Lila is a memeber of three book clubs (some more active than others) and she is excited to add The Word On The Street Book Club to her repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>Take it away, Lila!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Part 1 &#8211; Ch 1\u20139 (Part 1)<br \/>\nPart 2 &#8211; Ch 10\u201320 (Parts 2 &amp; 3)<br \/>\nPart 3 &#8211; Ch 21\u201329 (Parts 3 &amp; 4)<br \/>\nPart 4 &#8211; Ch 30\u201342 (Parts 5 &amp; 6)<\/p>\n<p>Part 1:<\/p>\n<p>1. We&#8217;ve just been introduced to Conor O&#8217;Dea, the protagonist of\u00a0<em>Man in the Shadows.<\/em>\u00a0At this point, do you see him as a hero? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>2. John A. Macdonald is one of the main characters introduced in Part 1. What do you think of him as a character? Is he different than you would have assumed, based on his place in Canadian history?<\/p>\n<p>3. Were you surprised by the presence of the IRA and the development of a terrorist movement at the time of Canadian Confederation?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Word On The Street has selected four great Canadian reads by authors appearing at the 2014 festival as part of our first summer book club. We&#8217;ll be discussing the books each week throughout the summer, and on September 21st, everyone will\u00a0have the chance to meet the authors in person at Queen&#8217;s Park Circle. &#8216;Tis <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/welcome-to-the-word-on-the-street-book-club-2\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}