| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| Group email: | Book club group |
| When: | Monthly on Wednesday afternoons 3rd Wednesday afternoon of the month at 2.30pm (2.15pm in Winter) on the 2nd floor of Sutton Library |
| Venue: | Sutton Library |
We read books recommended and enjoyed by various members of the group. The chosen book is then informally presented by the person whose choice it is, with their opinion on why it was chosen, elements liked or disliked, the highlights etc. It is then open for general discussion.
We usually read recently-published paperbacks: fiction. Members often remark on how much wider their reading has become since encountering new authors, differing themes and so on.
We are a friendly bunch, and it is great fun!
Some of the other books we've read are:
- 'Plainsong' (Kent Haruf)
- 'All The Light We Cannot See' (Anthony Doerr)
- 'The Rosie Project' (Graeme Simsion)
- 'A Walk In The Woods' (Bill Bryson)
- 'This Boy'(Alan Johnson)
- 'Light A Penny Candle' (Maeve Binchy)
- 'Salmon Fishing In The Yemen'(Paul Torday).
Here are a few examples of some of the books we have read:
- 'The Goldfinch' (Donna Tartt)
- About a young boy whose mother is killed in an explosion while they are visiting an art museum in New York. Whilst in shock, he takes a small but famous and priceless painting from the museum (The Goldfinch) and this later has an exciting, but not always positive, effect on his life.
- The Miniaturist' (Jessie Burton)
- Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam. This centers around a young bride whose wealthy new husband gives her a cabinet, a miniature of their home, as a wedding present. The cabinet seems to have mysterious powers and the miniature figures inside begin to reflect and then predict the course of the lives of the real people they represent.
- 'And the Mountains Echoed' (Khaled Hosseini)
- Set in Afghanistan, this touchingly focuses on the close relationship between a brother and sister and the desperate decision their impoverished father makes to sell his daughter to a wealthy, childless couple to save her from a life of penury and probable starvation.
- 'My Dear I Wanted To Tell You' (Louisa Young)
- This novel is a WW1 epic set on the Western Front, London and Paris. It addresses themes of love, class, gender and changing attitudes and expectations during wartime. It skilfully illustrates how war affects those people left behind as well as those who fight.