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• Do you
like reading?
• Do you
like meeting with a friendly group of
people?
If the
answer to either of the above questions
is “Yes” then you should be a member of
the Week St. Mary Book Club and like all
good meetings tea/coffee and biscuits
are provided. |
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Update April 2009:
You don’t need to be a bookworm
to join the Book Club – we welcome
anybody who would like to join us. We
meet monthly, normally on a Monday, in
the small meeting room in the Chapel.
The library system provides us with the
books, free of charge and all we have to
do as a group is to provide a brief
paragraph, or two, about the book to go
in the library’s file. Like all good
meetings we enjoy our discussion over a
cup of tea/coffee and biscuits.
The books we read fall into many
categories; love stories, thrillers,
humour, historical, Cornish settings,
etc. We often read and enjoy books that
we wouldn’t have chosen from the library
shelves. Recently we have read “Oryx and
Crake” Margaret Atwood a book set in the
future, “Property” Valerie Martin a
story about the slave trade, “Disgrace”
J. M. Coetzee set in the South African
bush and “The Death Pictures” a
detective novel set in Plymouth by Simon
Hall the BBC Crime Correspondent in the
southwest. Whatever the book there is
always a lively discussion.
For further information, or for the date
of the next meeting, call Pauline on
01566 781 626 or Micheline on: 01288 341
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Update May 2008:
Book Circle has been going for
2 years and has a membership of about 9
people, some of these come from as far
away as Boyton and North Petherwin so we
are open to anyone who wants to come.
We meet about once a month but this is
always subject to being able to order a
book set from Truro Library, it's
consequent arrival and members' own
commitments.
We have read a terrific range of books
and we all say that some of these are
not ones we'd have chosen off the
library shelf ourselves but that in
spite of that we've 'enjoyed' them.
Enjoyed is not always the word we should
use as some of the books read are very
challenging emotionally. This makes
reading the current book sound a chore
which it isn't as you don't have to read
it but most of us like the challenge and
read it if we possibly can. Of course
we've also had some cracking good,
enjoyable reads!
During the meeting we discuss the merits
and demerits of the current book, our
views don't always concur and this makes
for a lively and interesting sharing of
ideas. Of course other topics creep into
the discussion - often equally
interesting!
The current book is Saturday by Ian
McEwan, others read include Wild Swans,
Mr. Golightly's Holiday, Tulip Fever,
The Bridges of Madison County, The House
of Spirits, Astonishing Splashes of
Colour and lots more. |
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For further information, or for
the date of the next meeting,
call Pauline on 01566 781 626 or
Micheline on: 01288 341 689 |
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