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Book Club |
• 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 341 689. |
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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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