Book Club - Wednesday, March 25, 2026 - 6:30-8:00pm
$40.00
Book Club - Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 6:30-8:00pm
You will receive the book club book when signing up for this event. If you need the book shipped to you, please choose a shipping option, otherwise if you would like to pickup the book in person, please choose in-store pickup.
If you have already purchased the book club book from us and are signing up for this event, please contact us at info@wonderpens.ca and we will provide a gift card for the price of the book.
Join us for our new book club. An evening to discuss a new book as well as some fun activities.
The book this month is: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Book club books purchased through the shop will have the option of having our special book club stamp stamped inside their book as well as picking up our book club bookmark.
Also welcome to bring your own copy or borrow from your local library branch.
We reserve the right to cancel this event up to 24 hours before event. You will be fully refunded.
Synopsis:
He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.
She is an astute young housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.
And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capableof discovering connections between the simplest of quantities - like the Housekeeper's shoe size - and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.