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Book group reading suggestions for 2014 please…

January 7, 2014 By Ellen

It’s time for the book group I attend to choose it’s reading list for 2014. We try to have a mixture of new, old and non-fiction… something for everyone and hopefully not too many stinkers. Everyone comes up with their suggestions and we have a kind of vote before we get on with the pressing business […]

Filed Under: book group, books, reading

284/365 Things I’m learning from The Woman In White

October 11, 2013 By Ellen

I wonder when Wilkie Collins wrote The Woman in White in 1860 that more than 150 years later it would still be being read. I’d be fairly sure he had no idea that in 2013 a woman would be able to listen to it being read to her, via headphones from her phone as she […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, book group, books, reading, The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

267/365 the book group trials

September 24, 2013 By Ellen

Look at this, it’s rare. The sitting room is clean and tidy. There are no toys or nasty sticky bits, for once. Why?Because it’s my turn to host the book group (Gone Girl, since you ask). Everything was all sorted – unaccountably calm was the mood half an hour before everyone was due.Then I realised […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, book group, Gone Girl

144/365 Book group and the classics we hated…

May 24, 2013 By Ellen

(AKA The post in which I reveal myself to be an utter lightweight with no respect for proper Literature.)It was book group last night. And the very lovely Freda had remembered – or someone had noticed on Facebook – that it’s my birthday on Monday.  I joined the book group possibly seven years ago – […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, book, book group

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