LLC January bookclub meeting Januar 2016

LLC Bookclub meeting -  What's next? 

Thursday January 21st THIS time at 3.00pm  - 

West with the Night by Beryl Markham  
(Cathie's choice)was a book from our lucky dip in August:  

for further information about this book please see our bookclub page of this blog.

Outlook on upcoming bookclub meetings

Thursday February 18th 2.30 pm : 
If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveller by Italo Calvino  (Ann C)

 

'Surprise is part of the pleasure of this book, and I won't tell the story of its several failing and successful quests. Let me just say that Ludmilla and the Reader, stranded by the publishers of Calvino and Bazakbal, run across eight more novels of different origins - Japan, Latin America, Belgium, Ireland and three imaginary countries -and that all of these novels are interrupted for one reason or another: a further error of binding, suicide of the author, theft of the book, a sudden arrest.'

Thursday March 17th  2.30 pm :  
Theme of the month –
Literature on Plants & Gardens 
(your choice of any book relating to plants & gardens).

Thursday April 21st 2.30 pm :  
Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson  (Ginster)

Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

All meetings, unless notified, are at Pam’s at 2.30.

What a good post Christmas celebration we had last on 7th January 2016 and many thanks to Wendy for supplying the lovely bubbles and to others for their nibbles.  
'The Postmistress' overall was enjoyed by all but had a few mixed reviews. 
We also welcomed Nellie to our book club.


Happy New Year!
Jackie 

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