What we’re about
Welcome to the Surrey Book Club! We are a very social book club and look forward meeting new members.
The Book Club will meet at minimum once a month, usually on the first Monday of the month. Occasionally, we will have a second book or event during the month.
The primary format will be fiction and memoirs. From time to time I will announce other formats/topics/movies/meet-ups. Members, please feel free to message me with suggestions or requests.
What you can expect when we meet up: This is a casual and social group. The month's book is discussed and reviewed with all members sharing thoughts and insights. The conversation flows naturally, and we take time to get to know each other. We typically meet at a restaurant and our group members do order food and drink. Don't worry if you haven't read or completed the book; you're still welcome to attend.
Note: There is a $3 attendance fee for each Meetup, to help cover the organizer fees. Please remit payment online to complete your RSVP. To e-transfer your event fee, please submit to surreymeetups@gmail.com. If you have any issues with completing payment, please contact the group organizer, Satbir.
How are the books selected? We welcome and support all authors. The administrators research the books online via Goodreads and other platforms before books are added to the reading list. Our criteria for adding books to the reading list include availability of the books in different formats including a physical book, e-books, audiobooks etc., and availability at various locations or online, including purchasing in-store, online or borrowing from local libraries. The group administrators will request books be added to the library, however, this process may take several months.
2024 Book Club Update:
The Surrey Book Club event list is now available from March to August reading. Please note the below updates to the group information.
Surrey Libraries:
I have checked availability at the Surrey Libraries and made a note in the Meetups, so you may anticipate how long you might be waiting for the book, in which formats and how soon you should get on the waitlist.
RSVPs are important!
RSVP as early as possible to your preferred events. For all future events, I will be closing RSVPs a few days prior to the event date each month, If nobody has signed up at least 7 days prior to the event, it will be cancelled.
Please feel free to come and enjoy the event whether you have read the book or not.
If you are unwell and/or cannot attend, keep your RSVP updated accordingly to "not attending".
Book Recommendations:
Recommendations are welcome via updating your member profile, message to the group chat, or message to the group owner.
Hosts Welcome:
I mostly post books in the genres of Historical Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, and Mystery. If you are interested in hosting Meetups for other genres, please reach out to me.
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Historical Fiction: The Nightingale Kristen HannahNorthview Golf & Country Club, Surrey, BCCA$3.00
NOTE: This book available at the Surrey Public Library. The holds list is extensive. Please place your holds as soon as possible to ensure you will have time to read the book.
Genre: Historical Fiction, WWII
Book: The Nightingale by Kristin HannahIn love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.
Read more on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853621-the-nightingale?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=UIg4HkLUsg&rank=1 - Crime/Mystery: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanNorthview Golf & Country Club, Surrey, BCCA$3.00
This book is available through Surrey Public Libraries. The audiobook version has a long hold/waitlist.
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction
Book: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanSynopsis: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46000520-the-thursday-murder-club?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=30TJPgOEsI&rank=1
- Biography: The Good NeighborThe Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell KingNorthview Golf & Country Club, Surrey, BCCA$3.00
This book is available through Surrey Public Libraries in multiple formats, with only 3 physical book copies available.
Genre: Biography
Book: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
by Maxwell KingSynopsis: Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions about the world seriously.
The Good Neighbor, the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, tells the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, Maxwell King traces Rogers’s personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work, including a surprising decision to walk away from the show to make television for adults, only to return to the neighborhood with increasingly sophisticated episodes, written in collaboration with experts on childhood development. An engaging story, rich in detail, The Good Neighbor is the definitive portrait of a beloved figure, cherished by multiple generations.
Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38656999-the-good-neighbor
