Wednesday night book club - the Clockhouse at 7.30 to 8.00

[Chick]

Greetings,

Our next book is "The Secret Scripture" by Sebastian Barry.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/24/fiction1

Our next meeting is Wednesday 20th September in the Clockhouse at 8.00pm.

I thought our last book The Elegance of Hedgehogs was totally un-gripping but the end was excellent and quite sad so if you're still reading carry on it's worth it.

Till then,

[Chick]

Dear book group,

For October I want to set the date as 25th October. I am going to suggest "My Dear I Wanted to Tell You" by Louisa Young as our book that month.

I am hoping to invite Louisa to that meeting to discuss her book and her writing in general, but this I will have to confirm.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/24/wanted-tell-you-louisa-young-review

So we can discuss this in September.

Don't forget Rye Books, if we order three copies of the book group book we get a discount, but it's always good to support your local book shop.

Rye books 0203 581 1850

Till next time,

[Chick]

Author Louisa Young has agreed to come to our 25th October meeting to discuss her book ?My Dear I Wanted to Tell You?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/24/wanted-tell-you-louisa-young-review

Meeting in the Clockhouse at 8.00 pm as usual. Everyone welcome.

Till then,

PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS CHANGED FROM THE 18TH

[Chick]

Dear book group,

The BBC world service book club have an interview with Sebastian Barry author of The Secret Scripture, you can hear it here;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv2bn

Meantime on radio four there was a book club interview with Patrick Mc Cabe author of Butcher Boy which we did some time ago;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092kt49

I think you have to register and sign in.

See you September 20th.

[Chick]

Just a reminder that we meet next Wednesday in the Clockhouse at 8.00pm.

I have a DVD of the third man if anyone wants it.

[Chick]

Just a reminder of our meeting tomorrow night in the Clockhouse at 8.00pm.

[Chick]

Greetings,

Thanks to everyone who came to our last meeting. Our next meeting is on the 25th October at 8.00pm in the Clockhouse. Our next book is "My Dear I wanted to tell you" by Louisa Young. The author will be attending this meeting, more details to follow.

Till then,

Chick

[Chick]

Dear bookgroup,

Our book this month is ?My Dear I Wanted to Tell You? by Louisa Young. There is one copy in Rye books. Our meeting is on the 25th October in the Clockhouse upstairs in the Blake room.

https://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/my-dear-i-wanted-to-tell-you

The author Louisa Young is coming to our meeting so a good turn out would be spiffing! Can you let me know if you are able to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Young

I am finding it a great read and almost finished.

Till then,

[Chick]

Two weeks to go.

[Chick]

Just a reminder.

[Chick]

Just a reminder.

[Chick]

Final reminder!

[Chick]

Dear book group,

Many thanks to everyone who came to our last meeting with author Louisa Young. It was a very good meeting, a lot of area?s covered from the war to surgery, homosexuality and the class system prevalent at the time. Louisa was interesting and well informed. Commiserations to those of you who wanted to come but couldn?t.

Our next meeting is on the 22nd November in the Clockhouse. Our next book is The Power by Naomi Alderman.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/02/the-power-naomi-alderman-review

We can discuss our end of year meal. I look forward to seeing you.

Till then,

[Chick]

Oops,

Sorry I forgot to say a big thanks to Sheila for bringing her bits & pieces from the war, that really was the icing on the cake of a brilliant meeting.

Perhaps you could send me some feed back which I will pass on to Louisa.

All the best and hope to see you all in November.

Till then,

Chick.

PS Teresa I hope Helen enjoyed it, I was a bit worried she didn't hear too well.

[Chick]

Some feed back:

Lovely evening.

It was so nice of Louisa to take the time to spend an evening with us. Interesting to hear how Louisa did the research for the book. And there were some poignant stories from Louisa and others about how their families were affected by the First World War.

[Chick]

Some feed back from last week.

I really enjoyed Wednesday. It was a treat to be able to discuss a book with its author and the first time I have ever done so. Louisa was very open and friendly. I was interested to hear how she was drawn to write ? My Dear I wanted to tell you ? after learning about Dr Gillies work with facial reconstruction. And I liked our lively group discussion with Louisa, and Sheila?s wartime contributions. I feel I now know more about the book and the war and there were one or two things I had missed which were brought to my attention. As a general comment about the book, I believe I have learned a little about the trauma of injury and disfigurement, this was something which I had never really considered before.

Maggie

[Chick]

Just a reminder that we are meeting next week 22nd in the Blake room in The Clockhouse.

[Chick]

A last reminder that we are meeting tomorrow at 8.00pm in the Clockhouse. We have an opportunity to go on radio four book club next year. We read a book of their choice submit two questions that we may ask. We meet at Broadcasting House get ushered up stairs to the board room have a glass of wine and then a question and answer session with James Naughtie and the author, the session is recorded and transmitted two months later. The listening numbers are over 1.6 million. It's good fun and an enjoyable experience.

See you tomorrow.

[Chick]

Dear book group,

Thanks to everyone who came to our last meeting, very lively.

Our next book is Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera

I know some of us have read it already but it was a long time ago and it?s a good read, as I remember it's very funny.

This is for the January meeting will let you know the date next week.

Our end of year meal is to be at Yadas, Arch 163 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST on Wednesday 6th December AT 7.30 pm. I will send a map to you next week.

They do veggie, vegan and meat so some thing for every one.

This is a Kurdish restaurant, the food is superb and cheep but you get large portions, it?s a great place to go to. You have to bring your own wine and there is an Iceland and an off license near by.

Please let me know if you are coming asap.

Sheila, Sarah P(so is Jenson), Maggie-you are booked on to the BBC 4 Book club January 18th. More details next week.

The book for that is by Patrick Gale, A Place Called Winter.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/10/a-place-called-winter-patrick-gale-review

Till then,

[codebrewery]

Is this book club open to new members? Always looking for new reading recommendations, and would be great to meet new people in the area.

[Chick]

Greetings,

Our next meeting is January 10th at 8.00pm in the Clockhouse. Our end of year meal is on Wednesday 6th at Yadas.

Till then.

Chick

[Chick]

Last reminder of our end of year meal.

[Chick]

Greetings,

Thanks to everyone who came to our end of year meal at Yadas. Very good food and a very pleasant night.

Our next meeting is 10th January at the Clockhouse at 8.00pm.

Our next book is ?Love In a Time of Cholera? by Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera

Have a happy crimbo & a good New Year.

[Chick]

Just a reminder that our next meeting is 10th January in the Clokchouse.

[Chick]

Just a reminder that our next meeting is next Wednesday in the Clokchouse.