September 2015 bookclub meeting

LLC Bookclub - What's next? 

Thursday September 17th  2015 at the usual venue at 14.30h. 

Love, Loss & The Lives of Women, a collection of short stories edited by Victoria Hislop.




Either read them all or just select a couple and we can discuss - Short stories as many as you like.

October 2015 meeting on the 15th we have selected the theme: Anything to do with FOOD

FOOD! 

The November 2015 meeting is on 
Thursday 19th and the chosen book will be 
On Writing 

by Stephen King  and Brenda explained it wasn’t science fiction. 

Thank you to everyone who came on Thursday and made our Champagne Garden book club such a nice afternoon. Books weren’t the only topics of conversation, but I promised to list the books that people had suggested for November.

Books chosen:

Go Set a Night Watchman, Harper Lee

Us by David Nichols

The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

The Gathering, Anne Enright

The Green Road, Anne Enright

West with the Night, Beryl Markam

The Postmistress, Sarah Blake

All the Light we cannot see, Anthony Doerr


Happy reading

Jackie 

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Book club meeting February results

21st February: 
Book Club meeting took place for 

The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak

This book, although not generally well received, created some good discussion.  It was an interesting story and gave a glimpse into Russian history which tempted some members to want to read more about.  The author, herself, was criticised for her style of writing with short, stunted sentences which didn’t help the flow of the book. 
The story was told by a bookbinder’s daughter, Vavara, who eventually rose to be the Empress Elizabeth’s confidante, one of the palace spies, a loving mother and the close friend of Catherine, who became ‘the Great’.  
Which took a long time to be told in a somewhat Walt Disney type of way describing a cold snowy Russia and the extravagancies of palace life and how if one was ailing, they were bled!  Generally thought to be ‘a bit light’ and disappointing - definitely a winter read!


Pam has chosen 
What Am I Doing Here by Bruce Chatwin for the March meeting.  
This is meeting is exceptionally on 
Friday 22 March 2013 

Sylvia has chosen the April book:  

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James This is meeting is Thursday 18 April 2013

Sue M.’s 3 suggestions for the May book were, 
A Confederency of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robins and 
The Diaries of Jane Summers by Doris Lessing.

The meeting is on Thursday 16 May with 
The Doris Lessing book chosen:

The Diaries of Jane Summers

Book Club of the Ladies Lunch Club meets generally on the 

3rd Thursday of each month 

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