Jump to content

Wednesday night book club - the Clockhouse at 7.30 to 8.00


Chick

Recommended Posts

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...

Hi book group,


Our next meeting will be on the 29th September on zoom at 8.00pm.


Our next book is A 1000 Ships by Natalie Hayes.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/23/a-thousand-ships-natalie-haynes-review


All the best and thanks to Sahar for providing the link.


Chick

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...

Dear book group,


Our next book is Relative Stranger: A life after Death by Mary Louden


https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2006/23-june/books-arts/book-reviews/relative-stranger-a-life-after-death


And the next meeting is on Wednesday 27th October on zoom again.


I am going to book a table at the Herne Tavern on Saturday 16th October if any one is interested in coming along at 2.00pm.


And showing The remains of the Day in the Clockhouse on Friday 5th November at 8.00pm.


Sorry to repeat but don't want to miss any one.


Also a list of our books to date.


Thanks to Sheila for the heads up about All The Light We Cannot See

  • 2 weeks later...

Dear book group,


Thanks to everyone who joined in last night, our next book is "Drive Your Plow the Bones of the Dead and our next meeting is November the 24th as usual on zoom.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_Your_Plow_Over_the_Bones_of_the_Dead ;


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_Your_Plow_Over_the_Bones_of_the_Dead

Dear book group,


Thanks to everyone who joined in last night, our next book is "Drive Your Plow the Bones of the Dead and our next meeting is November the 24th as usual on zoom.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_Your_Plow_Over_the_Bones_of_the_Dead ;


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_Your_Plow_Over_the_Bones_of_the_Dead

  • 2 weeks later...

Dear Bookgroup,


I am going to jump a head and suggest a book for our next meeting in December.


It's The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's a fantastic book, I couldn't put down. Wonderful stories of ogres pixies and dragons, King Arthur and a knight Sir Gawain, Merlin the wizard and warriors.


Of course this is only a suggestion and we can be open to other books.


We normally have an end of year meal and I would like to this year but please let me know how you feel about it, probably in Tandoori Night or the Chinese in Lordship Lane,


both excellent restaurants.


So please let me know about both and especially the meal.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/04/the-buried-giant-review-kazuo-ishiguro-tolkien-britain-mythical-past

  • 4 weeks later...

Our next meeting is on the 29th December at the earlier time of 7.00pm. By zoom again.


Our next book is The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.


The Buried Giant review ? Kazuo Ishiguro ventures into Tolkien territory


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/04/the-buried-giant-review-kazuo-ishiguro-tolkien-britain-mythical-past?fbclid=IwAR2eee-GrvQw403qXxbwExMUkqDB432xJdWKq6AcNIWGu8s3tXRZ-dMGzEk

  • 1 month later...

Dear book group,

I am going to jump ahead again and suggest another book. Some of you will remember Evie Wyld and her first book After The Fire, A Still Small Voice:

https://www.theguardian.com/.../after-the-fire-still...

which she came to discuss.

And All the Birds, Singing which we read and Evie came to a group meeting:

https://www.theguardian.com/.../evie-wyld-birds-singing...

And her third book is out now, the Bass Rock:

https://www.theguardian.com/.../the-bass-rock-by-evie...

If we read this she will join in one of our zoom meetings so keep it in mind.

It doesn?t have to be our next book but if no one has anything desperate to read we could read it for our February or March book.

Look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting,

Chick.

  • 2 weeks later...

Hi

Just a reminder that we meet this Wednesday on zoom at the earlier time of 7.00pm.

I will be showing a film Gravity upstairs in the Clockhouse on Friday 4th February at 8.00pm.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/07/gravity-review

Let me know if you are interested.

Thanks again to Sahar for providing the link, I'll send it on Tuesday.

All the best,

Chick

PS any thoughts on my last book suggestion?

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...

Dear book group,


Evie Wyld will be joining us 30th March.


She has a colourful past growing up Australia in a sugar cane farm. Her English family were quite posh living I think in Salisbury or somewhere like that in complete contrast to her Australian family.


Do try and join, this will be good meeting.



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

  • 3 weeks later...

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Latest Discussions

    • I think the only way to sort this is to ban loud fireworks for private sale (and preferably ban fireworks altogether except for public displays). I don't know whether that has implications I'm not aware of eg I have no idea how many people are involved in firework manufacture.
    • Very happy to recommend Tommy Rooney's excellent work again. He's been servicing my boiler for years now, but this time he swiftly fixed a leaky radiator valve. I put out a call on Friday and it was repaired - and improved - by Monday evening. I asked him if he had an opinion about my other radiators, and he reassured me as he pointed out the leaky bathroom rad was a non-standard length, which was why it caused problems. There followed a brief but detailed history of improvements in regulations for valves and fittings over the years, so that I could understand precisely what the issue was. How many plumbers will do that for you? "I've just got a memory for weird things," says Tommy modestly.
    • Wanted 2 x Adult and 1 x Children tickets for Dulwich fireworks tonight please!
    • Labour have changed a number of things overnight.   1. VAT on school fees - this has resulted in 25,000 moving until state education. 2. Increasing NICs adding billions to the cost of going to work. 3. Introducing the Employment Rights Bill causing employers to stop hiring. This and item 2 have added 100,000 people to the unemployment scrapheap. These are also causing businesses to relocate further harming the economy. 4. Scrapping all the small boats deterrents meaning 60,000 illegal migrants have arrived in small boats since they were elected. 5. Dishing out huge public sector payroses with no conditions so we have a massively increased payroll and doctors etc arestill going out on strike. 6.changed IHT and non domicile tax rules causing 16,500 millionaires to leave the UK and stop paying any tax here at all forever. 7. Alongside 6, leaving the budget up until an historically late period after the last budget has caused a house price crash, killing the market and decimating government stamp duty receipts. 8. Their profligate borrowing (£100bn extra in just one year) to fund all their lavish promises means the government can now only borrow at the highest ever yields on records. They are more beholden to the bond markets than Liz Truss was. 9. The rate of inflation has doubled under this government. It was a healthy 2% when they came in. For most of the last year, as a result of all of the above it is now nearly 4%.   These are all decisions the Labour government took that have immediate cause and effect.  Its no good harking back to 15 years ago. The current administration was gifted the fastest growing economy in the G7 and within 15 months they have destroyed it.    And things are only going to get worse this winter.      
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...