Meet new people and join in discussions on selected titles in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere every second Friday of the month. Newcomers are welcome.
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Fridays, Apr 12, 2024 - Jun 14, 2024
1:30pm
90 minutes3 sessions remaining
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Mondays, Apr 15, 2024 - Dec 16, 2024
6:30pm
60 minutes5 sessions remaining
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Happiness Habits 613 and Ottawa Public Library present: Happiness Book Club
Meet new people and join in discussions on selected non-fiction titles in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
April title: The Happiness Project, Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
Happiness Habits 613 is a grassroots crew in Ottawa cultivating healthy habits using the 9 pillars of happiness: altruism, connection, gratitude, movement, mindfulness, minimalism, nature, nutrition and purpose.
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Fridays, Apr 19, 2024 - Jun 21, 2024
2:00pm
60 minutes3 sessions remaining
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Do you enjoy reading mysteries? Share the enjoyment of good mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. Join us for discussion usually every third Friday of the month.
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Wednesday Apr 24, 2024 at 6:30pm
60 minutesDrop-in program
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Join us for the ultimate armchair travel around Europe. The European Book Club is offered in partnership with European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Ottawa to promote contemporary European authors and their works. A book title from an EU country is selected for discussion each month.
We will be discussing "Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World" by Irene Vallejo.
IRENE VALLEJO
Irene Vallejo earned her European Doctorate from the Universities of Zaragoza and Florence. Papyrus was awarded the National Essay Prize, the Critical Eye Prize for Narrative and the Bookstore Recommendation Award, and will be published in thirty countries. She is a regular columnist for El País and Heraldo de Aragón, and is the author of two children’s books, two novels, and three collections of essays, articles, and short fiction.
PAPYRUS
Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of the earth to bring them back.
Papyrus, traces the dramatic history of the book and the fight for its survival. This is the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture. And it is a story full of heroic adventures, bloodshed and megalomania – from the battlefields of Alexander the Great and the palaces of Cleopatra to the libraries of war-torn Sarajevo and Oxford.
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Fridays, Apr 26, 2024 - May 31, 2024
2:00pm
60 minutes2 sessions remaining
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Join in stimulating discussions on selected titles in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere on the last Friday of the month.