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Book/reading club

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:24

Would anyone like to be part of a reading group?
I need something to encourage me to read more regularly - i absolutely love to read but seem to have put it on the back burner recently....
want to get back to enjoying it again
I anyone is interested, we could agree on a book (easier said than done, I suspect!)
read it then discuss....
hmmmmmmm
anyone>?

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3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 20:25

I love to read popsycal, definitely would be interested. What sort of books are we talking about?

Beetroot · 14/12/2003 20:26

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Hulababy · 14/12/2003 20:27

POssibly. I do kind of belong to a reading group here (recently joined) but been a bit lax. This way may be easier.

SenoraPostrophe · 14/12/2003 20:27

Good idea.

We did do this last year. We chose 3 books, but the discussions sort of petered out. It would possibly work better with just one choice, but I'd need at least a month to order it and read it! (or would we do it chapter by chapter? that may be better, but I'd still need a few weeeks to order it.)

Did you have a book in mind?

lyndsey66 · 14/12/2003 20:28

I would love to be part of a reading club (! do I sound over keen and geeky!) I love reading - although I dont get loads of time - about to start a thread about how disorganised my life is!! What sorts of book do you like?
Must admit that for 2 years all I have read is baby books!
Let me know what sort of stuff you like.

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:29

i don't have a particluar book in mind at the moment....
do people have favourites....which perhaps the majority might not have read....
list your all time favourite books.....then we will go from there
i am sooo chuffed how many people posted sooo quickly!

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3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 20:30

Are we talking fiction, non fiction, easy reading (not Mills&Boons please!!!).

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:32

here are some of my favourite books that spring to mind....

By John Irving - Hotel new hampshire, A Parayer for Owen Meany
just going to have a look on my book shlef...
oooooh the wrong boy bu willy russell - forgot about that!!! Fab - the bloke wriote educating rita and blood brothers

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Hulababy · 14/12/2003 20:32

The way we do it is one person each month (kind of on a rota) selects 3 books and gives a brief review and explanation of what it is about (usually from Amazon!). The others then vote for the book they want and we go with the majority. We then have a month to read the book, and discuss it on a set date.

fairydust · 14/12/2003 20:32

i'd love to do it to - posted a thread earlier in the month i want a book for over xmas -

use to read loads but suddenly stoped and i really miss it -

no horrors please i get nightmares to easy

Hulababy · 14/12/2003 20:34

I'm not keen on scary ones either, or horrific type ones. First book for my book group was A Sundat at the Pool in Kigali - all about the genocide - didn't enjoy it at all and couldn't finish it.

fairydust · 14/12/2003 20:34

sounds good hula

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:34

we are talkiing anything and everything...

here are some more
birdsong - sebastian faulkes
captain correllis mandolin - ???

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:36

oooh - a really slushy one that made me cry for days....bridges of madison county. oh dear me.....was going through a similar siutation to the characters in the book at the time!!

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SenoraPostrophe · 14/12/2003 20:36

Well...

Favourite books are:

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (v short, but a bit sci fi, possibly not to everyone's tatse)
Gulliver's Travels
Regneration by Pat Barker (read this for the last attempt at a book group! )

There are more but I read them a while ago.Particularly like political satire, historical and sci-fi-ish novels, but am easy really!

fairydust · 14/12/2003 20:36

i love slushy ones --

or naughty spicy ones

crystaltips · 14/12/2003 20:36

I have just started "The Siege" - Helen Dunmore .... chapter one under my belt and it looks good.
So far so good

3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 20:37

I havent read any of the ladies detective agency ones, arent they supposed to be good?

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:38

sp - gullivers travels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
my fave too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do you like Swift's other stuff????

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SenoraPostrophe · 14/12/2003 20:38

Ooo - birdsong is in my pile of waiting to be read books - that would be good!

fairydust · 14/12/2003 20:39

so how do we start this then

3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 20:40

Shall we let popyscal suggest three books as it were her idea (if thats ok with you popsycal) and then work from there??

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:40

detective one- afew years ago i read V I warshawski - first book good but couldnt do with the second one.....
by sara paretsky....

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SenoraPostrophe · 14/12/2003 20:40

popsycal - yes, but for some reason I've never finished any. I think I just start reading them at awkward times or something.

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:41

oooyh dear - a bit of a dilemma.....
if none of you have read a prayer for owen meany....(read it at least 5 times but ready for a 6th reading....) then that is one of them!

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