The Four Seasons Book Group is dedicated to moms who like to read but just can’t find the time to take part in a monthly book group.

The Four Seasons book club will meet only four times each year, giving you time each season to read and digest the book at your leisure.

Our relaxed evening discussions will be accompanied by indulgent snacks and include, at your convenience, the movie version of the novel.



For more information, please contact Janice LeDuc at jleduc@biblio.org.


Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Spring 2013

The Four Seasons Group has selected 
"Chocolat" by Joanne Harris 
as the club book and movie for Spring.


We'll meet on Tuesday May 7th @ 6:30 pm 
 for the book discussion.


"Vianne Rocher and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk, arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes--"a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux"--in February, during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. It's Lent, the shop is opposite the church and open on Sundays, and Francis Reynaud, the austere parish priest, is livid. 



One by one the locals succumb to Vianne's concoctions. Joanne Harris weaves their secrets and troubles, their loves and desires, into her third novel, with the lightest touch. There's sad, polite Guillame and his dying dog; thieving, beaten-up Joséphine Muscat; schoolchildren who declare it "hypercool" when Vianne says they can help eat the window display--a gingerbread house complete with witch. And there's Armande, still vigorous in her 80s, who can see Anouk's "imaginary" rabbit, Pantoufle, and recognizes Vianne for who she really is. However, certain villagers--including Armande's snobby daughter and Joséphine's violent husband--side with Reynaud. So when Vianne announces a Grand Festival of Chocolate commencing Easter Sunday, it's all-out war: war between church and chocolate, between good and evil, between love and dogma". 



Read more about Joanne Harris and "Chocolat" here
  Video courtesy of ichigopuff