Everything ticking along

Sounds interesting what you have been reading Ellie. That movie book is probably well worth a look. I have finished The Sunday Philosophy Club and am reading another Anne Tyler - this time - The Tin Can Tree

The people at work have started a softball team - which is good fun - have started learning how to play.

Hope you are all surviving the hot weather

Such alot of talk about Jane Austen - far too many adaptations - I did like the BBC's Pride and Prejudice but some of them have been truly awful like the adaptation of Mansfield Park which changed so much, putting in alot of PC stuff about slavery which is not what interested Miss Austen at all. I think alot of people get very silly about Austen. She was a brilliant stylist and person of the utmost good sense. Its much better to read the books and ignore everything else.

How's everyone getting on?

Hi guys,

I just started reading our optional Jodi Picoult book - despite it being hardback! I think it had a fight with some soup, and the book won. I actually read her bestseller, My Sister's Keeper, during the summer, and thought it was excellent, so that inspired me to give Vanishing Acts a go.

So, what have you been reading this summer? I have been mostly reading:
A children's fantasy book 'Shadowmancer' (demons, spirits and quite deep Christian values all wrapped up in a great story)
A non-fiction book 'How movies helped save my soul' (spirituality in all sorts of movies, which has inspired me to watch a whole heap of DVDs...when I have the time!)
A selection of short stories 'Cold Feet' (my chick-lit moment, brides have 2nd thoughts)
For the millionth time, Easy Connections, a teenage book I first read aged 14 and adored, and its sequel, Easy Freedom, finally available in print after years and years. (rock and art combine in the late 70s, with lots of sexy and intense beautiful people)
'The Jane Austen Book Group' (bookgroup discusses...well obviously Jane Austen...but other things happen too - don't think we'll be that restrictive on our reading)

Hmm, that looks all rather 'lite' apart from maybe the movie book. Well, no apologies, because I don't watch any soap operas or The Bill.

Oh, and my favourite bookgroup books have been:
The Lovely Bones; If nobody speaks of remarkable things & The Time Traveller's Wife
My least favourites were:The New You Survival Kit, Henry & June, & I was always against Bleak House. Sorry Charles!

My best book

Hello fellow Globe Bookgroup Bloggers (a bookgroup name to be proud of Ellie)

My favourite bookgroup book has been Frankie and Stankie because I loved the character of Dinah and felt I learnt something from the descriptions of life in South Africa during apartheid and Barbara Trapido blended these into the story pretty seamlessly.

My least favourite bookgroup book has been We Need to Talk About Kevin and it's best I don't get on to this as it makes me angry every time I think about it.

I have recently finished reading a book by a Canadian author, Miriam Toews, A Boy of Good Breeding, after previously reading A Complicated Kindness and she is now a new addition to my list of favourite authors.

Lorraine

Congratulations to Ellie

Ellie, aside from my book recommentaion in my previous post, I just wanted to say thanks for introducing us to the brave new world of blogs! Che x

Books we have read

My favourites were

Maps for Lost Lovers
Frankie and Stankie
Curious Incident
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Also Liked

The Line of Beauty
I'm Not Scared

Julian

Books we have read

Here's a list of all the books we've read since bookgroup started. Which ones have you liked the best or the least? Which ones have you kept hold of or couldn't wait to give to charity?

1/03 (Patrick) That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern
2/03 (Ellie) Happiness™ Will Ferguson
3/03 (Juliana) Portrait in Sepia Isabelle Allende
4/03 (Lorraine) The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
5/03 (Victoria) Charlie Big Potatoes Phil Robinson
6/03 (Vanessa) Bleak House Charles Dickens
9/03 (Nancy) Brick Lane Monica Ali
10/03 (Ellie) The No1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith
11/03 (Claire) The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
12/03 (Lucky dip) If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable things Jon McGregor
1/04 (Juliana) Under the Net Iris Murdoch
3/04 (Julian) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
4/04 (Victoria) The New You Survival Kit Daisy Waugh
5/04 (Lorraine) The Enchantment of Lily Dahl Siri Hustvedt
6/04 (Che) Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
9/04 (Claire) Henry and June Anais Nin
10/04 (Vanessa) Something Might Happen Julie Myerson
11/04 (Juliana) I’m not scared Niccolo Ammaniti
12/04 (Ellie) Voyage to the End of the Room Tibor Fischer
1/05 Lucky Dip The Dud Avocado Elaine Dundy
2/05 (Julian) Maps for Lost Lovers Nadeem Aslam
3/05 (Nancy) Frankie and Stankie Barbara Trapido
4/05 (Victoria) The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
5/05 (Che) We need to talk about Kevin Lionel Shriver
6/05 (Lorraine) The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
7/05 (Juliana) The Sunday Philosophy Club Alexander McCall Smith
(optional extra: Vanishing Acts Jodi Picoult)

Hello One and All

Have just finished an Anne Tyler book called Breathing Lessons - borrowed from Lorraine. Very well worth reading. Saw a brilliant film on Friday called Festival about the Edinburgh Festival. One of the best I have seen this year

Just started the Mccall Smith

all the best
Julian

"welcome to the globe bookgroup" 

Hello everyone!

I'd been thinking about doing a website for our bookgroup, but then a friend told me about blogs. Basically, this a space we can use to post messages to each other instead of email - the benefits being you can look back and see all the messages you need to, and you don't have to remember to save my emails anymore!

I thought we could use this to say what we think about each month's book - especially useful for those who can't make the meeting. We could write about other books we're reading, or anything we want to really!!

OK, so I hope this works!