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Book Club

The book club is an opportunity to engage in learning and professional development by reading a book, getting together with your colleagues to explore new ideas, network, discuss the content of the book, and create an action plan to apply your learning at work and in life.

Format

The book club follows this format:

  • Participants will meet three times per book as a group.
  • Each person receives a personal copy of the book (yours to keep), along with guided questions to consider for discussion with the larger group.
  • Participants, please read the book.
  • Sessions focus on a discussion about the contents and themes of the book, sharing thoughts about how the ideas presented in the book may be applied within the university community.

 

Session information

  • Spring 2026 – Falling for Myself

    Falling for Myself 

    In recognition of National Accessibility Awareness Week, the Spring Offering of Book Club will be Falling for Myself. 

    In this searing and seriously funny memoir, Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down, a lot, and spends a lifetime learning to appreciate her disability. Born with two very different, very tiny feet, she was adopted as a toddler by an already wounded 1950s family. From childhood surgeries to decades as a feminist teacher, mom, improv coach and unionist, she tried to hide being different. But now, standing proud with her walker, she’s sharing her journey. Navigating abandonment, abuse and ableism, she finds her birth parents and a new chosen family in the disability community.

    Join us to discuss:

    Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2026
    Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
    Location: Virtual
    Note: Please read the book in its entirety prior to this session.

    Register!

  • Summer 2026 - The Midnight Bookshop

    The Midnight Bookshop

    'A timeless story that emphasizes the healing and transformative power of books.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    Long ago, a bookshop was born – the beating heart of all those who find hope within the pages of a book. With the words penned upon the echo of old forests, new worlds are created.

    It’s ready and waiting to welcome all those who know where to find it…

    Strangers Jo, Adelaide and Kye are the least likely people to find themselves across the threshold of a bookshop. But as their midnight book club shows them that a single book can change everything, the three realize that their own stories can be rewritten.

    Dates:
    July 15
    July 29
    Aug 12

    Time:  1 pm - 2pm

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