Marilyn Herbert speaks to groups of all sizes and interests. The following is the current line-up for 2008-2009. These discussions take place in the Toronto, area and surrounding Ontario locations. Upon request, Marilyn occasionally travels to cities in other parts of Canada and the U.S.
Contact Marilyn if you are interested in where and when the following books or movies will be discussed and/or you would like to discuss having Marilyn come to your group discussion.
2008-2009 General Discussion List
Novel Discussions:
| Alan Bennett |
An Uncommon Reader |
| Joseph Boyden |
Three Day Road |
| Geraldine Brooks |
The People of the Book |
| Peter Carey |
His Illegal Self |
| Michael Chabon |
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union |
| Junot Diaz |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| Kim Edwards |
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter |
| Dave Eggers |
What is the What |
| Nathan Englander |
The Ministry of Special Cases |
| Steven Galloway |
The Cellist of Sarajevo |
| Sara Gruen |
Water For Elephants |
| Mohsin Hamid |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| Elizabeth Hay |
Late Nights on Air |
| Khaled Hosseini |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Nancy Huston |
Fault Lines |
| Henry James |
Washington Square |
| Margaret Laurence |
The Stone Angel |
| Michael Ondaatje |
Divisadero |
| Philip Roth |
Exit Ghost |
| Elif Shafak |
The Bastard of Istanbul |
| Lionel Shriver |
The Post Birthday World |
| Tamar Yellin |
The Genizah at the House of Shepher |
| Markus Zusak |
The Book Thief |
Film Discussions:
| Mira Nair (Director)
|
The Namesake (based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri) |
| Jeremy Podeswa (Director)
|
Fugitive Pieces (based on the novel by Anne Michaels) |
| Stefan Ruzowitzky (Director) | The Counterfeiters (based on a memoir by Adolf Burger) |
| Live Schreiber (Director) |
Everything is Illuminated
(based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer) |
| Vittorio De Sica (Director) | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
(based on the book by Giorgio Bassani) |
| Kari Skogland (Director)
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The Stone Angel (based on the novel by Margaret Laurence) |
| Margarethe von Trotta (Director) | Rosenstrasse |
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