#LBCHorsforth will be meeting NEXT week instead of this evening! Date: 19th July Venue: Old Kings Arms Time: 7:30pm Small Pleasures 1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape.When a young … Continue reading Date change! LBC Horsforth
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Upcoming Reads for July :)
Monthly Book Clubs - July 2023 9th July – The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer - #LBCWSwan 12th July - Small Pleasures - Claire Chambers - #LBCHorsforth 15th July - 100 Foot Journey - Richard Morais - #LBC3Reads The Satsuma Complex My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors … Continue reading Upcoming Reads for July 🙂
Ethan Hawke on creativity
Just now, I came across this short clip on Instagram, that caught my ear. https://www.instagram.com/p/CtreD9wtgLd/embed/captioned/?cr=1&v=14&wp=708&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fdrneevil.wordpress.com&rp=%2F2023%2F06%2F26%2Fethan-hawke-on-creativity%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2235%7D This very short clip highlights the need that we have for creative endeavours – that art isn’t always appreciated or thought about… until it becomes vital, until that time when we are in the greatest need for connection. And something … Continue reading Ethan Hawke on creativity
Misery Audiobook
For #LBCWSwan (our White Swan based book club), we are reading Misery by Stephen King. Time - 6pm Date - 25th June Venue - White Swan, Leeds city centre Misery Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of … Continue reading Misery Audiobook
LBC 3 Reads – July read
Our bi-monthly zoom book club continues this month and - as is usual for us - we have the theme (however loosely applied) and choices ahead of time. Our 2023 Choices Theme - Delicious Reads This year we will mostly be reading books - fictional and non - that feature or are about food. 21 … Continue reading LBC 3 Reads – July read
Upcoming Books for June :)
Monthly Book Clubs - June 2023 14th June - Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield #LBCHorsforth 25th June - Misery - Stephen King - #LBCWSwan Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life … Continue reading Upcoming Books for June 🙂
The perfect haiku for the 21st century.
Found on social media, so unsure if accreditation is correct. By video-vendetta Error 404: Your haiku could not be found. Try again later. And rj4gui4r thought it was genius and benedmauglocked said ‘As an English teacher, this made me weep tears of awestruck joy.’
LBC 3 Reads – May Read
Our bi-monthly zoom book club continues this month and - as is usual for us - we have the theme (however loosely applied) and choices ahead of time. Our 2023 Choices Theme - Delicious Reads This year we will mostly be reading books - fictional and non - that feature or are about food. 21 … Continue reading LBC 3 Reads – May Read
TV – Recipes for love and murder
As we are reading this for todays #LBC3Reads, thought I’d share this trailer here! https://youtu.be/ycR1VDYrpME It’s her from the commitments - Maria Doyle Kennedy! Meet Tannie Maria. She's fifty-something, short and soft (perhaps a bit too soft in the wrong places). Tannie Maria is our irresistible narrator, a woman of hearty appetite and formidable culinary … Continue reading TV – Recipes for love and murder
#LBCWSwan – April Read
For April, we will be reading: How high we go in the dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu Date: 16th April Venue: White Swan, Leeds City Centre Time: 6pm Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed … Continue reading #LBCWSwan – April Read
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