JenniferJ

Hi Susan et al Feeling much better, sorry to have missed the last meet-up. Any update on the next meeting and book choice? Jen x

I have come down with a sore throat bug thing which I am now on medication for 😕 Not going to spread my germs and come along tonight. Sorry. Was looking forward to this one. Jen x

Might even make it! Any news on what the book is or is it somewhere on the thread?! Jen x

Thanks Susan! And Happy New Year! I?ll PM my vote. Look forward to seeing you in Feb. Stay warm and dry till then ❄️☔️ Jen x

Hello. I agree! I hadn?t finished the book either and was dashing from a yoga class so decided to skip it. Let?s do a bit at the start of the next meet up?! What is the date of the next one? And what is the subject matter? Going to make the next one! New Years Resolution! Jen x

Just submitted my vote. Jen xx

17th works for me. See you then! Shall we attempt to have a list for that date so we can vote on the night? As it will be late November what do people think of as a good topic? Should we dare go Christmas themed given following month may be tricky with diaries? Jen x

I can do any Tuesday except the 31st. Jen x

Sorry. Not going to make it now either. Something has come up. Let us know when next one is and I'll really make an effort. Jen x

I can do the 16th too. So sorry for missing the last one. Glad we can discuss Wilt. I didn't get a chance to pick it up in time from Rye Books in time to read for the last meet up. Jen x

Yes! I can do it!

Sorry for not voting. Just back from ski trip so will buy this tomorrow! See you on the 21st. Jen x

Missed a few bookclubs due to work and life stuff but will pop along on the 15th. See you then. Jen xx

On my way too x

Sorry this is so late, but here is the rather tenuous "Summer Reads" book choices up for voting tonight. I hope to make it later but if not I vote for Cinnamon Kiss 1st and Room with A View 2nd. Jen x Walter Mosley - Cinnamon Kiss It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. It's further outside the law than Easy has ever travelled, but his daughter Feather needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him it's a cinch. Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy's problem without jail time. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric, prominent attorney. His assistant of sort, the beautiful 'Cinnamon' Cargill, has gone as well. Easy can tell there is much more than he is being told - Robert Lee, his new employer, is as suspect as the man who disappeared. But his need overcomes all concerns, and he plunges into unfamiliar territory. Hotel World - Ali Smith Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe . . . 'Ali Smith has got style, ideas and punch. Read her' Jeanette Winterson 'An extremely readable, easy-flowing writer and one of the subtlest and most intelligent around. Hotel World is essential reading from a writer confirming herself as a major talent. . . a wonderful piece of sustained imagination' Independent 'As infectious as a pop song, the story bursts open form the very first page and demands to be read in one sitting' The Times A Room with a View - E.M. Forster Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fianc? Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart? Solar - Ian McEwan Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, this is a story of one man's greed and self-deception; a darkly satirical novel showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. A Foreign Country - Francine Stock Daphne is a 74 year old woman, reserved and tenaciously independent, whose wartime past comes to haunt her in this remarkably accomplished first novel. In the war she worked at the War Office, having to interview italians arrested in dawn raids in London, and had to decide which are/are not fascists and should be interned. As a result, hundreds of italians are embarked on a ship which is torpedoed, and most of them drown. Back in the present, the woman's son is a tv journalist who makes documentaries about wars in far-off places. The novel moves between his coverage of a war in southern republic of the ex-USSR, and his mother's wartime life. His girlfriend, also in TV, starts uncovering fascinating material about the Italians in wartime London, and moves in on his mother. Meanwhile Daphne has also heard from one of the survivors, now in Australia. It 's a compelling exploration of how we edit life, past and present, about how even the smallest actions can reverberate, about how decisions which seem right and understandable at one time and place can be interpreted quite differently in a different time and place. The past is definitely a foreign country.

I was planning on coming tonight but let me know if you change your mind. Jen x

Hey - should be there about 8.30! Jen x

Great to catch-up last night, and looking forward to the next meeting in March. Ordered the book last night! Jen x

Great! Looking forward to catching-up :) See you on the 9th. Jen x

Susan / RedCat - you are from the what was Green & Blue Book Club yes? It's been a while! I was thinking of coming along to the next meeting if I'm welcome? Let me know and if you've chosen a date & a book. Happy New Year! Jen x

Check this out on Liam, the Philip Larkin of Comedy hey?! Sounds intriguing...and he's not bad to look at either ;) http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/aug/04/liam-williams-edinburgh-festival-2014

Just bought my tickets. Should be an great night. Check out this link for Andy Zaltzman on Russel Howard's Good News from a while back. Genius.

Walked to the Rye as per normal and just as I got to the bus stop and was wondering whether to wait or walk, a 363 appeared. :) On way to Elephant now but need to pick up a 63 to take me on to Farringdon. Fingers crossed, but if not I can get the train.

Thanks HonaloochieB, I will eliminate you from the 'possible' list ;-) I have calmed down a bit more, just worried that my careful recycling could now be in a bin somewhere - I am a greenie and can't bear the thought of any of my paper ending up in landfill. Also, I am having a serious clear-out and now probably will have to wait a week before a new bag arrives, so have nowhere to put my recycling till then, humph. All I'll repeat is 'hang your head in shame' to the culprit...

Just home after a spot of dinner and our recycling bag (FULL!) has been nicked from Upland Road. If you are the culprit hang your head in shame, it's pathetic. I'll now have to order more from the council - that's what you should have done mr /ms thieving *@!&$**! Amazed this has happened in this day and age. Sorry to innocent others for this rant but this has really got my goat.