The book review for December’s Book Club choice, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend has now been posted, read it online here!
That’s it for Book Club in 2017 – watch this space to find out dates and book titles for 2018!
Best wishes for the festive period.
Just a reminder that our next Book Club meeting will be:
Thursday 7th December, 12:30-13:30 in the Library Meeting Room.
The book is The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald.
Don’t forget, if you can’t attend the meetings in person, you can always submit a review online via this website, or email rde-tr.library@nhs.net.
That will be it for Book Club in 2017 – but it will be back in 2018!
The review for the October Book Club choice, Losing It by Helen Lederer is now available here:
Next month’s book club book is The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald and we’re meeting on Thursday 7th December, 12:30-13:30 in the Library Meeting Room.
Just a reminder that our next Book Club meeting will be:
Thursday 9th November, 12:30-13:30 in the Library Meeting Room.
The book is The Camomile Lawn by Mary Welsey.
December’s Book Club meeting will be:
Thursday 7th December, 12:30-13:30 in the Library Meeting Room.
The book will be The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald.
Don’t forget, if you can’t attend the meetings in person, you can always submit a review online via this website, or email rde-tr.library@nhs.net.
That will be it for Book Club in 2017 – but it will be back in 2018!
The book club choice for September was Driving Over Lemons, and you can read our online review here!
The next book club meeting is Thursday 12th October, 12:30-13:30 in the Library Meeting Room and the book is Losing It, by Helen Lederer.
Don’t forget, if you can join us for the meeting in person, you can leave a review on the blog site, or drop us an e-mail to: rde-tr.library@nhs.net.
The next Book Club meeting is Thursday 14th September, 12:30-13:30 in the Library Meeting Room.
The book for September’s Book Club meeting is: Driving over lemons, by Chris Stewart.
Here is a description from Good Reads:
“No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife, that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. That was the easy part.
Lush with olive, lemon, and almond groves, the farm lacks a few essentials—running water, electricity, an access road. And then there’s the problem of rapacious Pedro Romero, the previous owner who refuses to leave. A perpetual optimist, whose skill as a sheepshearer provides an ideal entrée into his new community, Stewart also possesses an unflappable spirit that, we soon learn, nothing can diminish. Wholly enchanted by the rugged terrain of the hillside and the people they meet along the way—among them farmers, including the ever-resourceful Domingo, other expatriates and artists—Chris and Ana Stewart build an enviable life, complete with a child and dogs, in a country far from home.”
Until the group is more established, we’re asking you to source your own copy of the books for now. Once we have established membership we’ll sign up to borrow book sets from the public library.
Here is where you can search to find a copy of the book to borrow:
Don’t forget, if you can’t come in person to the meeting, you are welcome to send us your comments online via this blog site, or by e-mail to: rde-tr.library@nhs.net.
Happy reading!
Thank you to everyone who came to Book Club today.
You can read our review here.
Next month’s book is Driving over lemons: an optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart.
Next meeting:
Thurs 14th September, 12:30-13:30 in the Library Meeting Room.
Here are the dates and book choices for the next few months for the Exeter Health Library Book Club – we hope you can join us in person, or contribute online!:
Thursday 14th September – 12:30-13:30 – Library Meeting Room
Book Choice: Driving over lemons: an optimist in Andalucia, by Chris Stewart
Thursday 12th October – 12:30-13:30 – Library Meeting Room
Book Choice: Losing it, by Helen Lederer
Thursday 9th November – 12:30-13:30 – Library Meeting Room
Book Choice: The Camomile Lawn, by Mary Welsey
Thursday 7th December – 12:30-13:30 – Library Meeting Room
Book Choice: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, by Katarina Bivald
We’ve selected these titles from our Macmillan Mood Boosting titles in our Health & Wellbeing book collection.
Once the book group is fully established we’ll register as a reading group with the public library and borrow book sets from them, but for now, we’re hoping that you’ll be happy to source a copy of the book yourselves, here are some places you might like to look:
We look forward to hearing what you think about the books!
The book for August’s Book Club meeting is: According to Yes, by Dawn French.
Here is a description from Good Reads:
The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy – otherwise known as Manhattan’s Upper East Side – has its own rigid code of behaviour. It’s a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family.
Emotional displays – unacceptable.
Unruly behaviour – definitely not welcome.
Fun – no thanks.
This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham’s kingdom. A beautifully displayed impeccably edited fortress of restraint.
So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn’t read the rule book.
For the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone starts saying . . . yes?
Until the group is more established, we’re asking you to source your own copy of the books for now. Once we have established membership we’ll sign up to borrow book sets from the public library.
Here is where you can search to find a copy of the book to borrow:
The next Book Club meeting is Thursday 10th August, 12:30-13:30 in the Library Meeting Room.
Don’t forget, if you can’t come in person to the meeting, you are welcome to send us your comments online via this blog site, or by e-mail to: rde-tr.library@nhs.net.
Happy reading!
Exeter Health Library Book Club
Weds 5th July
12:30-13:30
Library Meeting Room, Exeter Health Library
As it’s our first book club, we’re offering a variety of titles to choose from, to get the conversation started!
Last but not least is Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman:
This is a stunning collection of short stories by acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. His distinctive genius has been championed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With The Sandman Neil Gaiman created one of the most sophisticated, intelligent, and influential graphic novel series of our time. Now after the recent success of his latest novel Anansi Boys, Gaiman has produced Fragile Things, his second collection of short fiction. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the very depths of your soul. This extraordinary compilation reveals one of the world’s most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers
(Summary from Good Reads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16788.Fragile_Things?from_search=true)
We ask that you source your own copy of this book, please:
Search for on Exeter Health Library library catalogue
Search for on Devon Libraries library catalogue
Search for on Amazon
Please come and join us for our first book club meeting on Weds 5th July.
If you aren’t able to join us in person, but would like to take part, please submit a book review in the comments section below, or pop it into an e-mail to us at: rde-tr.library@nhs.net and we’ll share it with the group!
We look forward to hearing what you think!
Exeter Health Library Book Club 