Hello, woodsiegirl here! Once again (for I think the third year in a row?), I am attempting my annual challenge of reading the Booker Prize shortlist before the winner is announced. I have yet to manage reading all six before the announcement deadline, so here's hoping I manage a better job of it this year! … Continue reading Man Booker challenge 2014: J, by Howard Jacobson
LBC Reviewers
Find us on Pinterest
We're now on Pinterest!!! Follow us at http://www.pinterest.com/lbookclub/ Share us your boards, ideas,pins. We would love to see your ideas from bookworms to latest reads to the history behind the smell of books. Join us now!
LBCPuffins Adrian Mole is Harry Potter?
Did JK Rowling base her ideas of Harry on Adrian. I mean they look very similar. Just a thought
All good things…
It's hard to believe that Leeds Book Club has been going for over 4 years now. We started off small, earnest and enthused and it was in Arcadia Bar in Headingley that we found our Mothership. This month will be our last meeting at Arcadia for the time being. As time moves on, people … Continue reading All good things…
September book clubs! LBCPuffins 17th September – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend
Don't forget the next meeting of LBCPuffins on 17th September at The White Swan Leeds from 6:30pm The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); … Continue reading September book clubs! LBCPuffins 17th September – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend
September book clubs! MEDUSA – 10th September 2014 – The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
Don't forget the next meeting at Medusa is on 10th September from 7:30pm discussing The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam-a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion-a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery -Goodreads
Sharing Stories – A life too short – Ronald Reng
A life too short - Ronald Reng part of last year's Mental Health Reading Challenge 2013 *warning potential plot spoilers* Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the biography of Robert Enke, the international footballer with the world at his feet who took his own life Here, award-winning writer Ronald Reng pieces … Continue reading Sharing Stories – A life too short – Ronald Reng
LBCOutlaws Next pick!
LBC Outlaws Books that make you go Oooooo. Outlaws Yacht Club New York St · leedsbookclub.com Next LBCOutlaws meeting 25 September 6pm - 7pm reading The Cuckoo’s Call by Robert Galbraith. Plot: A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.
White Swan Picks three choices for rest of 2014
6pm every second Sunday Yes we're glad to say we're going back to monthly meetings. *CLAPS* *SHOUTS OF CHEER We have some interesting choices for September, October and November and quite a good pile of unpicked which people can read at there leisure. September 14th Augustus by John Williams A brilliant and beautifully … Continue reading White Swan Picks three choices for rest of 2014
Fellow Book clubbers LBC needs you!
If anyone has any reviews still to do, can be as far back as 2012, please can you email or message Niamh at LBC @leedsbookclub or me @isfromupnorth and we'll get them up asap. We are working hard to get everyone's reviews up so please, we know you're busy but send us your reviews!!!!! Thank you … Continue reading Fellow Book clubbers LBC needs you!
LeedsBookClub 