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
LBC Reviewers
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
World Book Night 2015
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EVENT – Sense and Sensibility in Leeds
Leeds Arts Centre is an amateur drama group based at the Carriageworks Theatre in Millennium Square in Leeds. Their next production might be of interest to some of the LBC members*!! 23 April 2015 - 25 April 2015 Main Auditorium: 7:15pm presented by Leeds Arts Centre By Jane Austen, adapted by Jessica Swale When bereavement … Continue reading EVENT – Sense and Sensibility in Leeds
My 2015 World Book Night choice
Real Poems for Unreal Times #WBN has been running for four years now. This is the third year that I have been participating and the third year that I'll be handing out my first choice pick - this year it's Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy. I love poetry. Before I could read - heck, … Continue reading My 2015 World Book Night choice
World Book Night 2015
World Book Night is now in its fourth year and 2015 bring’s its possibly most eclectic collection yet. As well as some popular genre fiction such as Lynda La Plante’s Prime Suspect, and Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice there is some cracking YA: some of the more popular Quick Reads: one of the most famous products of NaNoWriMo, Water for Elephants: SciFi scare fest The Martian and tales of real life hardship from around the world. And much much more. This year also includes it’s first poetry collection, Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Collection, which will be a lovely way of introducing people to reading. Dissapointingly no graphic novels-as I believe having Judge Dredd on the list back in 2013 was one of WBN’s bigger successes, but a great list all the same.
This year I’ll be once again helping the Big Bookend give away books to students at Leeds…
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