A date for your diary! LBCDystopia's next read on 22nd July starting from 6:30pm Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro see goodreads for more information - here
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The Leeds Big Bookend Premiere of Drink with a Chimp and Festival Launch Party
The Leeds Big Bookend Premiere of Drink with a Chimp and Festival Launch Party, Thursday 4th June 2015 Join us from 2nd-10th June as we map Leeds.www.bigbookend.co.uk Have you ever made a monkey of yourself? A new play from Common Chorus Common Chorus’ Drink With a Chimp is a new play about one woman’s struggle with addiction and her journey to recovery. … Continue reading The Leeds Big Bookend Premiere of Drink with a Chimp and Festival Launch Party
LBC 3 Reads – Date Change – PLEASE NOTE
#LBC3Reads Cafe 164 Date: *22nd of August 2015* Time: 11am - 1pm Address: Unit 2 Munro House, Duke St, Leeds LS9 8AG Our Choice I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS MAYA ANGELOU BLURB (from Amazon) Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the … Continue reading LBC 3 Reads – Date Change – PLEASE NOTE
LBCWhiteswan picks @whiteswanleeds with @leedsbookclub
14th June 2015 – Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides 12th July 2015 – Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 9th August 2015 – Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
Books unpicked for LBCWhiteSwan
The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell A Change Of Climate by Hilary Mantel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel x2 The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton The Book About Blanche and … Continue reading Books unpicked for LBCWhiteSwan
World Book Night April 23rd 2015
LBCWhiteSwan 6pm tonight @whiteswanleeds
LBCWhiteSwan tonight at 6pm discussing The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland at The White Swan 5 Swan Street, City Centre, Leeds LS1 6LG And bring your book choices so we can pick July and August!!!
May Book Club meetings
LBC OUTLAWS 6th May 2015 – I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim #1) – Terry Hayes LBC WHITE SWAN 10th May 2015 – The Owl Killers – Karen Maitland LBC MEDUSA 13th May 2015 – Carte Blanche – Jeffrey Deaver LBC 3 READS 16th May 2015 – Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin LBC PUFFINS 20th May – Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark … Continue reading May Book Club meetings
Severus Snape – his chronology
9th January 1960 – 2nd May 1998 And then read this as a reality check - Nerds Doing Stuff - Snape is not a good guy
Helen’s Roald Dahl challenge book 04 – The Twits
About the book How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But … Continue reading Helen’s Roald Dahl challenge book 04 – The Twits