‘I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.’ Woody Allen
Meet, think, and be merry at the Book Club. Take the opportunity to read books you've never considered before and make reading a social as well as a solitary pleasure. Titles include a range of subjects and styles - so why not come along?
The Pall Mall Book Club meets on the first Monday of every month (except July and August) in the Library. You can see the dates of forthcoming meetings and books that will be discussed on the calendar. Start time is 7.00 pm and the discussion usually lasts at least an hour. The cost of each event is £7.00 (including refreshments).
To book your place or write a book review:
Email thebookworm@royalautomobileclub.co.uk
Telephone 020 7747 3295
The Woodcote Park Book Club meets at 5 week intervals, at 10.30am. You can find dates for the forthcoming meetings and the books to be discussed on the calendar. All sessions are £5.00 and include tea and coffee on arrival.
To book your place, please contact Judy Nash:
Email judymnash@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone 020 8643 1503
The Pall Mall Book Club meets every month and discusses a book all have just read. Titles vary from fiction to none fiction with a smattering of classics thrown in. If the Book Club have particularly enjoyed a book they will add it to 'the Book Club recommends' list. If you have a book you would like to recommend please email the bookworm.
Email thebookworm@royalautomobileclub.co.uk
Telephone 020 7747 3295
The Woodcote Park Book Club meetings for 2012 start on January 12 at 10.30am
and will continue at 5 week intervals from this date (extra time to digest the book)
To attend please email Judy Nash judymnash@yahoo.co.uk
Pall Mall Reading List 2012
9th January: A Man of Parts, by David Lodge
6th February: There but for the, by Ali Smith
5th March: The Cats Table, by Michael Ondaatje
2nd April: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
14th May: The Fear Index by Robert Harris
June: TBC
July: No Meeting
August: No Meeting
September: TBC
October: TBC
November: TBC
December: TBC
If you would like to suggest a book for discussion please email thebookworm@royalautomobileclub.co.uk
Woodcote Park Reading List 2012
The Woodcote Park Book Club meetings for 2012 start on January 12 at 10.30 am
and will continue at 5 week intervals from this date(extra time to digest the book).
To book your place, please contact Judy Nash:
Email judymnash@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone 020 8643 1503
January 12 Any Human Heart by William Boyd
February 16 Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
March 22 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham's The Hours' (1990) intertwines the worlds of three generations of women affected by a Virginia Woolf novel. Set over a period of seven decades, the story tells of one day in the life of each of the central characters, and mirrors the device used in Mrs Dalloway (1925)..........who is planning a party.
April 26 - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
A young English women inherits a large Indian diamond - the Moonstone - on her eighteenth birthday. She wears it on her dress at her birthday party for all to see. Later that night the diamond has vanished. T S Eliot called the book ' the first, longest, and maybe the best of all modern English detective novels in
a genre invented by Wilkie Collins'. The BBC have commissioned a new TV adaptation of 'The Moonstone' for Christmas 2012.
May 31 Emma (1815) by Jane Austen
Jane Austen wrote '' I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like''. Emma vows that she will never marry but amuses herself planning love matches for all around her.'Emma', dedicated to the Prince Regent , was the last novel published in Jane Austen's lifetime , she died at the age of 41. The book was praised for its accurate depiction of everyday life.
July 05 The Long Song (2010) by Andrea Levy
The story, is narrated by July, a slave girl born on a Jamaican sugar cane plantation called '' Amity'' in the nineteenth century during the last turbulent
years of slavery when the two enemies , masters and slaves , lived tightly
entwined . July tells her own story , that breathes life into the recorded
historical events before the abolition of slavery in 1838, until the early
years of freedom.