This is our next book.  

October 25th.

Burial  Rites by Hannah Kent
Led by Lyn 

August 30th 2013

kate atkinson

I have rediscovered her after such a long time.  We did Case Histories ..when ?

Did not realise that its part of a trilogy:   When Will there be Good News, and Started Early Took my Dog which Im reading now.

I like he tone and her affection for her characters like the self effacing Jackson Brodie  and her sense of place (Northern UK) history.  

theres a new book out "Life After Life"....

Arcadia, Alice Munroe

Avenue books had Arcadia.   Looks good.

Am reading Alice Munroe's latest collection also.

x,M

Friday April 26     All that I am by Anna Funder    led by Jill         Venue Sarah’s

 Other books mentioned: 

9 Parts of Desire & Calebs Crossing

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Game of Thrones

Pure     Andrew Miller

Friday June 28      Arcadia by Lauren Groff             led by Eva      Jenny's ( Arcadia is available for the book depository. May not be in shops yet)

Friday August 30

Friday  October 25   host tbc

December  13th Christmas bookclub at Robin's

first post 22.2.2013 poetry

Robin started with John Berryman ; she gave some interesting detail about his troubled life and  she read us 2 of his poems.. Robin I didnt write them down can you remind me ....

Meredith followed with John Shaw Neilson.  He was a labourer and his main  literary influence was the King James Bible.  We heard The Orange Tree and The Crane is My Neighbour. 

Eva talked about discovering William Carlos Williams when she was in her teens and bored with the sciences, looking for art and then finding his remarkable work.  We heard  The Red Wheelbarrow and This is Just to Say.

Jill read us the Barn Owl  by Gwen Harwood. 

Sarah read pieces of  Goblin Market Christina Rosetti, and Ashes of Violet by Sandy Fitts 

Lyn talked about her love of TS Eliot, the war poems we all did at school, Dylan Thomas and Vincent Buckley, and Steven Herrick who writes verse novels for young adults which are very popular. 

There was general discussion about our experiences of poetry: Meredith talked about professor Maxwell reading the border ballads and making everyone cry.

We all agreed that we all enjoy&value poetry, but we are not in the habit of reading it.    

Also mentioned : Dorothy Porter , Robert Lowell, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsburg, Sylvia Plath, and Mother I'm Rooted....