WANTED: 12 lovely mums for a new book club

[mamandomi]

Hello, My name is Dominique, I am a keen reader and I just find this idea of a book club fabulous. I was too late for joining the last thread s I guess the best is to start a new one. I am a mother of 2 (3 years and a great reader of 12) My house is full of books (in french and english.....
Well I hope to meet you soon
have a nice day
Dominique

Hello, I'd quite like to join, but I'm overseas (France) which might make posting expensive.

Just one question - do you know what you are getting in advance?

I meant posting for others, I'm happy to pay.

Great already some answers! Hey flyingcloud are you a british expat or are you french? I am a french expat in Northern Ireland! I personaly do not mind posting to france. In anycase it would be only once in 12 months!
I don't think we know what we are getting but everybody get to read the same book whch is then sent to te next person so it is one new book every month in a chain.

me please!! I always see these messages too late!

Although not sure I would pass trade description on 'lovely mum' - I can pretend if needed!

I am actually an Irish expat living in France!

so we have made an exchange! I m from Rouen Normandy and now live in ballymena!I came here 20 years ago! Whoa.... time flies!

I'm a British expat living in France and I would love to join a book club, purleese can I join? Could send books to DH who works in the UK and then he could forward to me if it makes things cheaper.

Oh can I join? I love reading but have no idea about book clubs but will join up if it means I get to read more.

Yes please, I would like to join - like others I always miss the threads.

flyingcloud
Dogchewsonlimbsanpumpkins
loler
walkthedinosaur
paranormalghostygoat
HC1
mamandomi

Yeah! We are more than half way there!
already 7 months of books!

Anyone else?

What do we all do now? Can you tell I'm keen to get started, I love reading.

well, there seem to be only 7 prsons interested... I am very democratic,so I have a few questions for you...
1 - do you want to start now (for the impatients as myself)
2- so that nobody receive a book which we have already read (that yould be a pity) shall we propose, lets say 5 books each and if some of us have already read one we can scrap it off the list AND by giving 5 possible titles we still keep the surprise for the first month.
3- is thee anything any of you would like to bann from the start for ie horror books,soapy books etc.....
4- we will need to know eachothers addresses but of course we do not want to display it on the net so if you would like to mail it to me at [email protected] I will organize the chain.
Ok, that is all for now
looking foward to hear from you all
Domi

Yes, very keen to get started too.

Will have a think about my books - I think that's a good idea - was thinking about how to avoid sending out books others have read over supper with DH's boss tonight (was switching off...)

Thanks Domi!

Maybe Walkthedinosaur could send to me as it will be cheaper for you? As I said I don't mind too much sending overseas.

I'm impatient, I think we should start now. I don't think we should ban books because how would we find hidden gems we would never have looked at before? That's the joy of a book club isn't it? Although I would say nothing too complicated after having DC's I have a jelly brain these days.

I need to think of five books, have now realised that I only get books from library these days so need to have a think and peruse of my shelves for books I haven't read.

Will email you, just wanted to bump the thread to see if anybody else is interested in joining.

Great! I am quite impatient too.
here is my list of books

1 The House of Crows by Paul Doherty
2 The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
3 Friends,lovers,chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
4 My Name is Red by Orham Pamuk
5 Chinese Cinderella by AdelinYen Mah

well here yo are, have you read any of these books?

Don't forget to mail me your details

Have a nice day!

OK have perused the book shelf and these are going to be my five:-

Coastliners - Joanne Harris
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
Homeland - Clare Francis

I haven't read any of your books so that's a good start.

Oh forgot one, Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie

ooops I have the girl with the pearl earring, loved it and I actually did like the film too. And I have also the Coastliners, I like very much the Joanne Harris books. I think it was a good idea to propose 5 books as we seem to have some in communs

OK take those two out and I'll have a look and see if I've got a couple more on the shelf.

Anybody else want to join in before we get started?

Here are my five - to start with, they may all have been read so far:
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Reader - Bernard Schlink
The Spare Room - Helen Garner
Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris
Ghost -Robert Harris

Oh, sorry I have read Coastliners and The Girl With the Pearl Earring (loved The Girl With the Pearl Earring and can't really remember Coastliners!! I had to google it to make sure!)

hi there, well out of all your books I have The Reader. Not read yet but it is in my bookcase waiting for its turn. And by the way it's a deal, walkthedinosaur will send to you.
I hope the others will join in the conversation, I will send them a cat....

I haven't read the Reader and would like to at some point.

Two more for me to replace the ones you've read, how about some non fiction:-

It's not about the bike - Lance Armstrong
A Hundred and One Days - Asne Seirstad