This morning I received the following message in one of the book club chats: Would anyone like to join me in doing this lovely thing on 31st Jan? It’s for a good cause and I loved getting dressed up fancy for no reason at all last year! You don’t have to donate to participate (but … Continue reading Party Dress Day is fast approaching!
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2025 Book Clubs – Chronologically – UPDATE
Here are our 2025 books, in date order up to March 08/01/25 - The Little Liar - Mitch Albom LBCHorsforth 11/01/25 - When God was a rabbit - LBC3Reads 12/01/25 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel - Suzanna Clarke - LBCWSwan 09/02/25 - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill - LBCWSwan 12/02/25 - … Continue reading 2025 Book Clubs – Chronologically – UPDATE
Audiobooks vs reading
Felt confrontational, might delete later* https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEU9USAR9j6/?igsh=MW45azFrMTVzM3FndA== *I’m lying. This isn’t going anywhere. I *KNOW* this to be true. Also you can do the washing up while listening to an audiobook. With actual books that can have…consequences…
Happy New Year!
Wishing you all a wonderful, joyous & fun filled 2025. May all your books delight & enthral! Or enrage & infuriate - whatever you fancy!
Heading out for New Years?
Kirkstall Abbey House – Consultation about closure
Leeds City Council are proposing to close Abbey House Museum as part of cost saving cuts. Abbey House Museum (and the Abbey ruins - see lower half of this post) is a telescope to the past - it allows us to glimpse at the way ‘loiners’ lived their lives in the not do distant past. … Continue reading Kirkstall Abbey House – Consultation about closure
POEM – Amanda Gorman – Do Us Good
A response to her watching Wicked. https://youtu.be/BPOVo3_pyos?feature=shared Transcript: Are we born wicked or do we have wickedness thrust upon us? Are we born bad or brave? There is a world we miss when we misbehave, but we miss just as much when we misconstrue. When we distrust what is different, and detest what is new. … Continue reading POEM – Amanda Gorman – Do Us Good
POEM – My father perceived as a Vision of St Francis
Irish poet Paula Meehan reads one of her earlier works. Despite her becoming in 2013 the Ireland Professor of Poetry by President Higgins, I’ve not come across any of her work before - something I will seek to remedy in the near future! Her Wikipedia page suggests that she is a force to be reckoned … Continue reading POEM – My father perceived as a Vision of St Francis
Remember – no book club today!
LBC Horsforth – DATE CHANGE! SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 Hello everyone! The Horsforth book club will be meeting on 25th September 2024 at the Old Kings Arms to discuss The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell The date change is to facilitate summer holidays. (How very dare I?) Blurb ‘I thought I had made myself clear. I … Continue reading Remember – no book club today!
LBC Horsforth – DATE CHANGE!
Hello everyone! The Horsforth book club will be meeting on 25th September 2024 at the Old Kings Arms to discuss The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell The date change is to facilitate summer holidays. (How very dare I?) Blurb ‘I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. … Continue reading LBC Horsforth – DATE CHANGE!
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