Chick

Greetings book clubbers, I suggest we go for the public transport trip this Saturday, the 1st June. We would meet outside Westminster tube at 1.00pm, take the tube to North Greenwich and stopping at the interesting ones, Canary Wharf & North Greenwich. From North Greenwich we take the cable car across the Thames. At that point we may feel like a beer, then decide whether to take DLR to Woolwich Arsenal then BR into London Bridge then back to ED for a cheep Chinese or Indian. You can use an Oyster card on the cable car. Let me know what you think!

Greetings book clubbers, A big welcome to Nicky & Susan, hope you enjoyed your first meeting. A big thanks again to everyone who came along, a very good night and a very interesting discussion. The next meeting is on 19th June in the Clockhouse at 8.00pm. Our next book is ?Tender is the Night? by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A brief summary: Rosemary Hoyt, a beautiful eighteen-year-old movie starlet, on vacation with her mother, arrives at a rather deserted portion of the French Riviera. There, Rosemary meets Dick Diver, a handsome American psychologist in his thirties with whom she instantly falls in love. Dick and his wife, Nicole, are exemplars of grace and sophistication, and move among a social set of similarly extraordinary people. Rosemary becomes part of this world, and in the gay times that follow, Dick begins to reciprocate Rosemary's feelings for him. Everything goes splendidly until, after an alcoholic friend of the Divers accidentally kills a man, Rosemary discovers Dick comforting Nicole, who has had a mental breakdown. The story shifts back in time to relate the events that led up to the marriage of Dick and Nicole. Dick attended Yale, was a Rhodes scholar, and then moved to Vienna to study clinical psychology. Once, as Dick was leaving a clinic on the Zurichsee, he met the sixteen-year-old Nicole Warren, who was being checked in. The Chicago heiress had been sexually abused by her father and, as a result, had developed an acute fear of men. The two fall in love, and Dick becomes both her doctor and her husband. They travel extensively, are happy, and have two children together. Partially on account of Nicole's relapse, the Divers decide to invest in a clinic in Switzerland. Things begin to unravel. Dick is accused of infidelity by a former patient, and Nicole, in anger, runs their car off the road. Dick learns his father has passed away and heads to America for the funeral. Upon his return, Dick meets Rosemary in a hotel, and the two consummate the aborted romance they had begun several years earlier. In the aftermath, Dick realizes his world is falling apart. He goes out carousing, gets beat up and imprisoned, and must be rescued by Nicole's sister, Baby Warren. As Dick continues to drink, he jeopardizes his position at the clinic and is asked to leave. The Divers return to the Riviera, and Dick continues to drink and unravel, insulting old friends. Nicole has an affair with Tommy Barban and asks Dick for a divorce in order to marry Tommy. Dick readily agrees, realizing that Nicole's finally overcome her psychological condition. Dick then disappears to America, never settling down. I am going to organize a ?public transport trip? to take in the new Jubilee line stations, the cable car across the Thames, DLR and then back to our beloved Peckham with maybe one or two beers en route. Topping the event of will be a cheep & cheerful meal either here or in town, anyone interested?? Haggis & hiccups, Chick.

I have and can take two or three.

Laura, we meet once a month. Keep an eye on this thread and just come along to the next meeting. If you pm me an email address I'll put you on the list. Laura1981 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi All! > > I've been in the are for nearly 2 years, but I'm > really keen to join a book club. I was just > wondering how often you meet? I've got plans for > this Wednesday but I'd be really keen to come > along to the next meeting if you'd be happy for me > to join the club? > > Thanks, Laura

Yes just come along and meet people. Chick lizdaniel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am interested in joining a book club. Could I > attend this Wednesday but won't have time to read > whole book. > > Thanks

> Chick - you were one of the people who seemed to > take great pleasure in goading me on the previous > thread, which eventually had to be deleted. I took no pleasure from the last sick thread about this. I didn?t goad you, just asked you to drop it several times, as did other people. As for schadenfreude, if the cap fits. I wont be posting again on this.

Yes of course. Don?t worry about buying Middlesex, just read a synopsis, it?s far too big to get through in two days. Chick. PS We meet in the Clockhouse pub at the bottom of Barry Rd. We meet in their upstairs room. At 8.15 EmED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello, > > Im new to the area, would it be OK if i came along > on Wednesday? I would buy Middlesex today and read > as much of it as I can by Wednesday!! > > Thanks!

Try this: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,819992,page=6 or: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,1105806

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fair enough, but the discussion on this thread > seems to be about different issues. > > What I meant was that I have no wish to rehash the > "discussion" on the previous thread, and I don't > suppose anybody else has either. > > Sorry if I didn't make that clear :) > > Congratulations on your "easy win" though, quids > :)) > > ETA: And actually, at the point of the comment > made about my number of posts, I'd made exactly > one more than Uncle Ben. Hardly a statistically > significant difference, I suggest :) This isn?t a discussion, it?s schadenfreude.

Greetings book clubbers. Just to remind you our next meeting is next Wednesday 22nd in the Clockhouse at 8.15 for 8.30. Can I have some feed back regards using two tables instead of one big long one? Cheers Chick

Greetings book clubbers, Hope you are enjoying Middlesex. The next meeting is in The Clockhouse in the upstairs bar on 22nd May. It?s being used until 8.00pm so I suggest we meet at 8.15. Some of you have suggested the one big long table fragmented the group. The Clockhouse aren?t averse to us reorganising the tables to make two smaller groups of about six/seven as long as we put it back together. I would be grateful for your thoughts on this. I will check with Lisa as well. Hoots & humbug. Chick PS please do let me know your thought/suggestions. Thanks.

wongo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Enforceable and unenforceable yellow box > junctions: > > http://ticketfighter.co.uk/yellow-box-junctions/ Thanks for this website.

Will it still be a pub?

The Wednesday night book club will be giving out books on behalf or World Book Night At the Clockhouse on Saturday 20th April from 6.00pm. The book is The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry About the Book Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Greetings book clubbers, Thanks to everyone who came along last night, another very good and lively meeting. Thanks to the Clockhouse for hosting us. The next book is Middlesex by Jeffery Euginides. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/oct/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview15 The next meeting is Wednesday 22nd May, a bit of a way off but it?s a big book. Thanks to Sarah & Bianca for some interesting histories. Good reading.

You are disgusting. Vicanna Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > of course, the > self-pitying losers around the abandoned > collieries who still cling to past grievances in > order to justify the moral and economic ditch they > live in.

See you all Wednesday!

Greetings book clubbers, Just a reminder of our next meeting this Wednesday at the Clockhouse in the upstairs room, 7.30- 8.00ish start. Any body had any thoughts on Countdown? Also I think we might consider the local author?s book which I wrote to you about. I?ll find out where we can buy it, perhaps we could read it some time in the summer, when it eventually arrives. Hoots & harmony. Chick

Hi newbie, The next meeting is this coming Wednesday at the Clockhouse public house which is at the bottom of Barry Rd. We will be in the upstairs room, just ask the bar staff. The event on 23rd is to do with World book night and you need tickets from the South Bank Centre. Go back several posts and you will see a link. Can you come along next Wednesday? You?ll be made very welcome. Chick

Chinni, Of course, just turn up. Cheers Chick

Greetings everybody, Great news, it may not be my cup of tea but nice they have shown an interest! Have started our next book and hope to finish before the meeting. Cheers, Chick -----Original Message----- From: Charles McKain To: '[email protected]' Sent: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:43 Subject: FW: [Reading Groups for Everyone Group contact] from Holly Mia Simpson -----Original Message----- From: Holly Mia Simpson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 April 2013 14:39 To: Charles McKain Subject: [Reading Groups for Everyone Group contact] from Holly Mia Simpson The following message was sent to you via Reading Groups for Everyone ( http://readinggroups.org/ ) Name: Holly Mia Simpson Hello Chick, I hope that you don\'t mind me contacting you. I work on the Channel 4 programme Countdown and we are currently looking for contestants to take part on the show. Hosted by Nick Hewer, with co-presenter Rachel Riley and resident dictionary expert Susie Dent, Countdown was the first programme to be broadcast on Channel 4 and is one of the longest running game shows in the world, celebrating over 30 years and more than 5000 episodes. As you run a reading group I wanted to contact you in the hope that yourself or members of your group might be interested in applying to be a contestant on Countdown. If you think any of your members would be interested please let me know and I can send you our application form. I am going to be holding auditions in the London area on Friday 24th May so anybody interested can contact me directly. Thank you in advance for your time and help, Best wishes, Holly Mia.

Just turn up, you'll be made more than welcome.

Hi everybody, Change of venue for next month, we are back at the Clockhouse. They have a room upstairs which is ideal for a book group. I have booked for the 17th April. It was very good of The Draft House to accommodate us but the acoustics weren?t favourable for a book group discussion. A very big thanks to the Draft House for their hospitality. I am looking into a possible visit to The Ritzy this Saturday. Cheers Chick.

Greetings book clubbers, Once again a big thanks to every one who came to last weeks meeting. An interesting and lively discussion on Mr Orwell. The next meeting is on 17th April and once again in the Draft House at 8.00pm. Our next book is We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. A brief synopsis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Need_to_Talk_About_Kevin Bring your own razor blades. I will do a phone round this week to see if there is any interest in seeing a film next Saturday at the Ritzy. Hoots & hugs Chick

> > I popped into teh Vic at the weekend with a > woodrot junior for an unscheduled bog stop - it > was indeed packed to the rafters with thrusting > breeders and their offspring - as I was > disshevelled, scowling and unshaven, lurking > around the bookcase area waiting for them, several > of 'em started eyeing me suspiciously and moved > their bags behind them/ phones off the table. > > not one of us > > > *sucks teeth* Woodrot, I always thought you were a woman.