UPDATED INFO NOW INCLUDING THE ACTUAL BOOK CHOICE!!:
A very enjoyable Christmas meal, delicious tapas at Rebatos and quite a bargain too!
Very good choices of secret santa books, almost too hard to choose from but the vote was for:
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Apparently one of his good ones (as opposed to another recently read at Brixton which wasn't so good).
First book group of the new year on Jan 5th! New venue to start the New Year, as much as we love the Bread and Roses we're sometimes getting a little squeezed what with the quiz AND the football. Going to try out the Royal Oak which is just opposite Clapham North Tube (check the name of the pub before you go in, there are three in that area!!) hopefully still fairly convenient for everyone .
Happy New Year!
Tuesday 28 December 2010
Sunday 5 December 2010
Christmas meal update
Update on the Christmas meal..... we're meeting in the Canton Arms at the usual 7.30ish. It's a short walk from Stockwell tube, slightly longer from Vauxhall or is on the 88 or 2 bus routes.http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/14/1420/Canton_Arms/South_Lambeth
From there we'll head 1 minute down the road to Rebatos Resturant about 8.30ish for some yummy tapas.http://www.rebatos.com/I'll try to reserve a table in the tapas bit which is nice an cozy.
So far there's about 7 or 8 of us but if you'd like to come please let me know asap (comment on here, or you can confirm attendance on the Facebook Event)
Book secret santa is a definite - wrap up a book you love (second hand or off your shelf is fine!) and bring it along to swap! We'll be choosing the first read of 2011 from the secret santa selection, so choose wisely!
Looking forward to it!
From there we'll head 1 minute down the road to Rebatos Resturant about 8.30ish for some yummy tapas.http://www.rebatos.com/I'll try to reserve a table in the tapas bit which is nice an cozy.
So far there's about 7 or 8 of us but if you'd like to come please let me know asap (comment on here, or you can confirm attendance on the Facebook Event)
Book secret santa is a definite - wrap up a book you love (second hand or off your shelf is fine!) and bring it along to swap! We'll be choosing the first read of 2011 from the secret santa selection, so choose wisely!
Looking forward to it!
New year, New Start
A Short Walk was a damn fine read and enjoyed by all, if we do say so ourselves! Sorry, getting carried away with the imperialism but thumbs up from everyone. It made some of us want to get up off our rather cold backsides and do something fantastic and extremely challenging, makes the walk to work in the snow seem rather tame!!
Plans for the Christmas meal finalised so check the separate post for that.
First book group of the new year on the 5th! New venue to start the New Year, as much as we love the Bread and Roses we're sometimes getting a little squeezed what with the quiz AND the football. Going to try out the Royal Oak which is just opposite Clapham North Tube (check the name of the pub before you go in, there are three in that area!!) hopefully still fairly convenient for everyone .
We'll choose our book from one of the Secret Santa presents at the meal so will update the blog once we know what it is (ie after the 15th).
Happy Christmas!
Plans for the Christmas meal finalised so check the separate post for that.
First book group of the new year on the 5th! New venue to start the New Year, as much as we love the Bread and Roses we're sometimes getting a little squeezed what with the quiz AND the football. Going to try out the Royal Oak which is just opposite Clapham North Tube (check the name of the pub before you go in, there are three in that area!!) hopefully still fairly convenient for everyone .
We'll choose our book from one of the Secret Santa presents at the meal so will update the blog once we know what it is (ie after the 15th).
Happy Christmas!
Sunday 21 November 2010
Christmas Fun
The winter has snuck up on us and as people keep reminding me Christmas is not far off so we thought that we should probably put a date in for a Christmas meal before people get too booked up.
Wednesday 15th December is the date set, venue to be decided at the next meeting so if you have a suggestion then come along or put a message up.
If you can confirm your attendance below, or come to the next meeting, then we can get an idea of numbers to book somewhere.
We'll do a secret santa book swap too. Wrap up a book of your choice and bring it along to put in the sack!
I'm not even going to think of saying Christmas greetings yet!
Wednesday 15th December is the date set, venue to be decided at the next meeting so if you have a suggestion then come along or put a message up.
If you can confirm your attendance below, or come to the next meeting, then we can get an idea of numbers to book somewhere.
We'll do a secret santa book swap too. Wrap up a book of your choice and bring it along to put in the sack!
I'm not even going to think of saying Christmas greetings yet!
Saturday 13 November 2010
Fancy a Short Walk?
Thanks to Eleanor for taking notes:
Rather a lot of disruption at the last meeting, those pesky students! There was a party of sorts going on in the pub, pretty noisy even in the back room, and THEN they put the football on full blast so we were forced to retreat and wander around Clapham trying to find another pub to accommodate us. The Belle Vue at Clapham South satisfied our needs in the end and once we'd intimidated people enough to get them to leave we even ...managed to get a whole table!Exciting stuff but I'm very very sorry to anyone who came a bit late and found us gone, apologies, we did wait til about twenty past eight but couldn't hold our fort any longer!
ANYWAY, thumbs up for Iris Murdoch, everyone enjoyed it's farcical humour and ridiculous partner swapping. Definitely a recommended read and it's made us all want to read some more of hers so any good suggestions are welcome.
The next group is on the 1st December and we're reading'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby. I'm sure some good travel writing won't go amiss to get us through the distinctly wintry weather!
A real mix of other suggestions including:
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemmingway
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jackson
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
We will still meet in the Bread and Roses on Clapham Manor Road. I'm guessing the quiz will be on again so we'll sit in the back room and hope that they don't put the football on. IF there is football on we will wait until 8.15/8.20pm and then leave a message at the bar as to where we've gone so hopefully others can catch us up.
We also had a brief chat about having a Christmas meal and all thumbs up so there's a provisional date of the 15th December. I'll make an event and if people could indicate if they are keen to come, we can arrange the venue at the next meeting so have a think about any suggestions.That's all folks!
Rather a lot of disruption at the last meeting, those pesky students! There was a party of sorts going on in the pub, pretty noisy even in the back room, and THEN they put the football on full blast so we were forced to retreat and wander around Clapham trying to find another pub to accommodate us. The Belle Vue at Clapham South satisfied our needs in the end and once we'd intimidated people enough to get them to leave we even ...managed to get a whole table!Exciting stuff but I'm very very sorry to anyone who came a bit late and found us gone, apologies, we did wait til about twenty past eight but couldn't hold our fort any longer!
ANYWAY, thumbs up for Iris Murdoch, everyone enjoyed it's farcical humour and ridiculous partner swapping. Definitely a recommended read and it's made us all want to read some more of hers so any good suggestions are welcome.
The next group is on the 1st December and we're reading'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby. I'm sure some good travel writing won't go amiss to get us through the distinctly wintry weather!
A real mix of other suggestions including:
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemmingway
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jackson
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
We will still meet in the Bread and Roses on Clapham Manor Road. I'm guessing the quiz will be on again so we'll sit in the back room and hope that they don't put the football on. IF there is football on we will wait until 8.15/8.20pm and then leave a message at the bar as to where we've gone so hopefully others can catch us up.
We also had a brief chat about having a Christmas meal and all thumbs up so there's a provisional date of the 15th December. I'll make an event and if people could indicate if they are keen to come, we can arrange the venue at the next meeting so have a think about any suggestions.That's all folks!
Monday 8 November 2010
The Severed Head
Adding this far too late as I forgot to copy it across from Facebook. Oops... Thanks to Eleanor for taking notes on the night:
General consensus that we enjoyed 'Gilead', which I was obviously pleased about! Good discussion on the various themes, actually I think we did mostly talk about the book!
Next we are reading 'A Severed Head' by Iris Murdoch. Don't be put off by the title, I'm pretty sure there's no blood and guts in it, just a lot of sex and relationship confusion I think! Actually it was a pretty close call with 'The Slap' by Christos Tsiol...kas, we had some subtle changes of allegiance and almost went to a third round! So if anyone fancies suggesting it another time please do.
Other suggestions were:
Kalooki Nights by Havard Jacobson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
THe Owl Service by Alan Garner
Mother's Milk by Edmund St Aubyn
Meeting will be on Wed 10th November at the Bread and Roses on Clapham Manor Road.
Just to let everyone know that they are now holding a quiz on a Wednesday evening in the pub so we will meet in the back part of the pub (just walk straight through). It's not too noisy but might get a little chilly in the winter so bring a jumper! I suppose if a book is terrible and we can't bring ourselves to talk about it we could always do the quiz instead!
General consensus that we enjoyed 'Gilead', which I was obviously pleased about! Good discussion on the various themes, actually I think we did mostly talk about the book!
Next we are reading 'A Severed Head' by Iris Murdoch. Don't be put off by the title, I'm pretty sure there's no blood and guts in it, just a lot of sex and relationship confusion I think! Actually it was a pretty close call with 'The Slap' by Christos Tsiol...kas, we had some subtle changes of allegiance and almost went to a third round! So if anyone fancies suggesting it another time please do.
Other suggestions were:
Kalooki Nights by Havard Jacobson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
THe Owl Service by Alan Garner
Mother's Milk by Edmund St Aubyn
Meeting will be on Wed 10th November at the Bread and Roses on Clapham Manor Road.
Just to let everyone know that they are now holding a quiz on a Wednesday evening in the pub so we will meet in the back part of the pub (just walk straight through). It's not too noisy but might get a little chilly in the winter so bring a jumper! I suppose if a book is terrible and we can't bring ourselves to talk about it we could always do the quiz instead!
Thursday 30 September 2010
Gilead
The next book is Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson. You can read 'Home' as well if you really fancy. Date is October 20th at the Bread and Roses on Clapham Manor Street, and we'll be there from 7.30/8.00ishThis meeting is the week after 'Wolf Hall' (Oct 13th, same time and place) so all you slackers who haven't read it yet had better cancel all plans for the next few weeks!! Hope to see everyone then!
The runners up were:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Sunday 5 September 2010
Love on the Dole
So, without further ado:
Everyone really enjoyed One Day, and we had a great chat about it.
The winner for next time is Love on the Dole
by Walter Greenwood.
Runners ups were:...
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Katherine Stockett - The Help
Geoff Ryman - Was
Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
We'll be meeting on 29th September at the Bread and Roses on Clapham Manor Road, and anyone is welcome to come along and join us.
Hope to see you there!
Tuesday 19 January 2010
Indecision leads to a double whammy...
I think we found reading The Trial a bit of a trial. Repeated snow also meant it was a small group but that didn't stop us chatting till they kicked us out of the pub.
It's 4 weeks till the next meet up, and we couldn't decide between 2 books, so we decided to choose both. They are both relatively short quick reads. Feel free to read either or both (or indeed something else entirely). So the TWO books for next time are:
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Times Arrow - Martin Amis
And the runners up were:
The Brides Farewell - Meg Rosoff
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Runaway - Alice Munro
The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
It's 4 weeks till the next meet up, and we couldn't decide between 2 books, so we decided to choose both. They are both relatively short quick reads. Feel free to read either or both (or indeed something else entirely). So the TWO books for next time are:
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Times Arrow - Martin Amis
And the runners up were:
The Brides Farewell - Meg Rosoff
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Runaway - Alice Munro
The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
Next meeting is Tuesday 9th Feb in the Bread and Roses Pub, nr Clapham North Tube
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