...will be up later this week. This is not THAT blog. I just wanted to say that I was thrilled by the meeting that we had tonight! It was brilliant to put faces to twitter names...and actual names, and I always love being connected with other bookie people, so even before the meeting had started, … Continue reading First big book club meeting…
Author: Drneevil
Book Club the Tenth – or Let there be light
Book Club the Tenth - AvidReader - 14-01-2011 - Lemon Meringue Pie Agreed on: Discussed: - The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson - The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz - The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - Falling for a dancer by Deirdre Purcell - The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper Special Topic: … Continue reading Book Club the Tenth – or Let there be light
Booker Challenge
Our little book club was set up with a few core aims and goals in mind - cake and books (naturally) were probably the primary focus, along with the chance to chatter with fellow book lovers about a book we had all read (rather than our more usual very diverse cross section discussions), but included somewhere near the top of this virtual list was … Continue reading Booker Challenge
Wolf Hall – finally finished
As regular readers to the blog will know, I've been alternatively loving and loathing Hilary Mantel's epic tome 'Wolf Hall' for the last fortnight...and the rest. Well, I've finished it. Finally. What an all consuming story - covering one of the most fascinating periods of history. When I wasn't hurling the book away from me in … Continue reading Wolf Hall – finally finished
Wolf Hall – a book in progress review
As I fell instantly in love with the Tudor setting while reading C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series ( Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation and, as yet unread, Heartstone), I requested, and received, this tome from my local ever friendly BookElf. Although I had never read any of Hilary Mantal before, her previous works - most notably Fludd and her … Continue reading Wolf Hall – a book in progress review
Never let me go Review
****LIGHT SPOILERS**** Whilst on holiday last week, I took the opportunity to catch up on some light (!) reading, as recommended to me by my mum. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro was one of those books that I always knew I'd need to read. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, nominated for the … Continue reading Never let me go Review
Why Libraries in Leeds are so important.
Ahem, as featured on today's Guardian Leeds "Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere..." - Jean Rhys For longer than I can remember, I have loved books. Not necessarily stories, but always books. I think that my favourites are old, original … Continue reading Why Libraries in Leeds are so important.
"Never a lender, nor a borrower be…"
Well no disrespect to Lord Polonius, or to Shakespeare, but some of the best books I've ever read were loaners! Soooo, I just lent a dude I work with my copy of Northern Lights, the first in the 'His Dark Materials' series, by Philip Pullman. And I'm stressing. I really, really, really want him to … Continue reading "Never a lender, nor a borrower be…"
Almost Alice
A few years ago, a friend from home pushed a book at me and said 'Read this'. I took one look at the cover and mentally groaned. I don't like it when people play with MY books. And Alice (of the Wonderland Alice Clan), she's one of mine!! The blurb on the back proudly declared … Continue reading Almost Alice
Book Club the Seventh
Book Club the Seventh - BOOKN00B - 18-08-10 Agreed on: We by Yevgany Zenyatin (AvidReader) Discussed: - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry - The Twins by Tesse De Loo - House at River ton by Kate Morton - Millennium Trilogy by Steig Larsson (this time with Phee … Continue reading Book Club the Seventh
