#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
Book Club
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 🙂
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
#LBCHorsforth – April Read
We will be meeting up for April to discuss Sea of Tranquility- Emily St John Mandel Date: 12th April Venue: Zoom Time: 7.30pm In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and for a … Continue reading #LBCHorsforth – April Read
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