Wednesday night book club - the Clockhouse at 7.30 to 8.00

[Chick]

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Thanks to everyone who came to another very good meeting last night and a big welcome to Veena. Our next meeting will be on the 18th December and doubles as our end of year meal. It will be in Jaflong at 8.00pm. Bring your own wine. It's cheep & cheerful and the food is good. Every one is invited, and also to bring a partner, please let me know if you are coming.

http://www.jaflongtandooridulwich.co.uk/

Our next book is "Autumn" by Ali Smith. I have ordered two copies from Rye Books for me and Georgie, they will be in on Saturday.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/12/autumn-ali-smith-review

I am thinking of showing the film "Brazil" by Terry Gillium again upstairs in the Clockhouse some time in February. If you have any other films in mind let me know.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/reviews

So until then,

Chick

[Chick]

Greetings book worms,

Just to remind you our next meeting doubles up with our end of year meal which is in Jaflong on the 18th December at 8.00 pm.

http://www.jaflongtandooridulwich.co.uk/

So far we are twelve so is there anyone else wanting to come along? If you are reading this you are invited.

See you soon.

Chick.

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[Chick]

Thanks to every one who came to our end of year meal.

Our next meeting is 22nd January in the snug downstairs at the Clockhouse. Then February19th in the Blake room and March 11 in the snug.

Our next book is Bottled goods by Sophie Van LLewyn;

https://storgy.com/2018/10/06/book-review-bottled-goods-by-sophie-van-llewyn/

As always meetings start at 8.00ish.

Those of you going to the BBC in January have a very good meeting, these are always good fun and James Naughtie is a very good host.

Thanks to all of you for your continued support and have a very happy Christmas and see you next year.

All the best,

[Chick]

Thanks to every one who came to our end of year meal.

Our next meeting is 22nd January in the snug downstairs. Then February19th in the Blake room and March 11 in the snug.

Our next book is Bottled goods by Sophie Van LLewyn;

https://storgy.com/2018/10/06/book-review-bottled-goods-by-sophie-van-llewyn/

As always meetings start at 8.00ish.

Those of you going to the BBC in January have a very good meeting, these are always good fun and James Naughtie is a very good host.

Thanks to all of you for your continued support and have a very happy Christmas and see you next year.

All the best,

[Chick]

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[Chick]

Greetings from down under!

Our next book is:

Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Between-Stops-View-Life-Number/dp/B07VS32SWB/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=76372761777&gclid=Cj0KCQiApaXxBRDNARIsAGFdaB8Nj-_OiEmL711liidKyI-2yT-VAU2jHkNPrXmJ8knysHmOSXUnrYoaAuHBEALw_wcB&hvadid=383222158066&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045890&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=15240940640367511379&hvtargid=kwd-319977999012&hydadcr=18710_1774000&keywords=sandi+toksvig+biography&qid=1579815023&sr=8-1

And our next meeting is on February 19th I think in the Blake room but I'll confirm this when I return.

All the best from the smoke!

[Chick]

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[Chick]

Dear bookgroup,

Thanks to every one who came to another superb meeting last Wednesday.

Our next meeting is Wednesday March 11th in the snug this time at 8.00pm, in the Clockhouse. Our next book is ?Blood Orange? by Harriet Tyce:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37912970-blood-orange

Also at that meeting author Claire Adams will be coming to meet us and discuss her book ?Golden Child? which we read last year. So a good turn out please.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40127349-golden-child

On Thursday the 19th we will be showing ?Brazil? by Terry Gilliam at 8.00pm in the Blake room:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

[Chick]

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[Chick]

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[Chick]

Dear book group,

Thanks to those who came to a very good meeting. Our next book is "The Salt Path" by Raynor Winn.

https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/the-salt-path-a-memoir/

Our next meeting is Wednesday 22nd April, so plenty of time!

[Chick]

Our next meeting will be in the Blake room upstaurs at the Clockhouse.

[Chick]

Dear book group,

I am going to attempt a group meeting for Wednesday 22nd at 8.00pm.

This from Sheila:

The book club with my ex-work colleagues has started using Zoom which I found easy to set up and use. You only get 40 mins free but the organiser can sign up for second session a few minutes later which is what we did so we could have a short break. The organiser gets a code which they email to all the participants which they then use to log on to the meeting. It does need someone to coordinate responses because if more than one person speaks at a time no one can hear. We use a hand up signal when we want say something and the coordinator then invites us to speak. Also everyone must turn off mobiles, radio and TV or it interferes. Someone answered her mobile and we could hear the conversation clearly. Participants can mute if they need to speak to someone at home or answer a call. In short it needs a few rules and disciplined use by participants.

I thought it was very good and a lot more user friendly than Microsoft Teams which was used for another meeting.

So I?ll include a link to Zoom and if you wish you can install it:

https://zoom.us/download

Also I have had a request to open up the email group so everyone can see everyone else?s email address. I have no objection but a couple of concerns. One is the GDPR regulations but as a book group I suspect we can ignore these. The other is people replying ?to all? might cheese some people off. I think we should try it and see. If you do get fed up with lots of emails we can sort that at the time.

I do however need your permission to do so and will only do so if it?s nor against the GDPR regulations.

So please can I have some feed back on this, so far I have had only two emails about these issues.

All the best,

[Chick]

Dear book group,

Our Zoom meeting went well. The next Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday 20th May at 8.00 pm . Thanks to Sahar for organising. We will be reading two books this month:

The Course of Love by Alain deBoton.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27845690-the-course-of-love

And the Love of Seven Doll?s by Paul Gallico:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338673.Love_of_Seven_Dolls

The Love of Seven Doll?s by Paul Gallico may be hard to find.

Good to see everyone and I look forward to our next meeting in the Clock when it opens.

Cheers,

[Chick]

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[Chick]

Just a reminder that we have a Zoom session next Wednesday at 8.00pm.

See you Wednesday.

I have enjoyed both books. Peter I'll drop your copy off later today. Thanks for the loan.

Chick.

[Chick]

Dear book group,

Once again we will be having another Zoom meeting this coming Wednesday. If you wish to take part drop me an email and I can send the link.

Chick.

[Chick]

Dear book group,

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Zoom meeting and thanks to Sahar for organising. Our next book is Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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

Our next meeting is Wednesday 17th June.

All the best,

[Chick]

Just over two weeks now.

[Chick]

One week to go.

[Chick]

Hello every one,

Thanks for taking part in a very good Zoom meeting. Our next book is ?In Extremis? by Lindsey Hilsum. I haven?t a date yet but will post one on Monday.

https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/3842/in-extremis

All the best and once again thanks to Sahar for organising the Zoom meeting which works very well and Anita from Canada was able to join.

[Chick]

Our next Zoom meeting will be on 22nd July at 8.00pm

[Chick]

Book group,

Hope you are enjoying the book. Colvin was quite a reporter. Early on she was mentored by John Hersey and he helped her develop her style of reporting. He wrote a book Hiroshima which I think we should read, it?s short and powerful, 166 pages so perhaps we could do it along with next months book?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37131894

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07pfdvw

You need to sign in to BBC iplayer for that one but well worth it.

A more tenuous connection to Colvin:

When I was in Beirut I met an artist who recreated crystal from dust. During the civil war(which Colvin reported from) there was a ?green? line between West & East Beirut . Vartan found a shelled building which housed a photographer?s studio in the green line and collected 60 kg of dust, dissolved them in water and grew crystals from the dust.

https://marfaprojects.com/artists/vartan-avakian/

So hope to see you all on the 22nd.