http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ Penguin Readers Forum: Recent Posts en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:22:08 +0000 http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=421#post-660 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:03:24 +0000 RedHeadedReader 660@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi,<br /> I am moving to Poole in September and am looking for a local book club to join. Does anyone know of any?<br /> Maxine<br /> Xoxo </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=420#post-659 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:25:06 +0000 purpleboots 659@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi,<br /> I haven't found mention of a book club in the Leicester/Nottingham area, so if anyone is interested in forming one can you get in touch by replying?<br /> I'm 29, love reading all different types of fiction and would love to join/form a reading group.<br /> Look forward to hearing from you! </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=413#post-658 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:28:35 +0000 OperaNut1972 658@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>I live in Sheffield but would be willing to join in subject matter dependant, of course. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=410#post-657 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:25:25 +0000 OperaNut1972 657@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>I am currently reading Crocodile tears to audit my 9 year olds reading material, I also reading for pleasure Stieg Larrsson's The Girl who played with Fire. I have been slow on the up take for this trilogy, however, after reading the first book in 12 and half hours, whilst soaking up some much needed vitamin D over the Wimbledon fortnight, I have purchased the other two. I tend to read more than one book at a time so it was good to concentrate on just "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I think it was pretty obvious what had occurred but the material had me hitting the next page button till the end. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=418#post-656 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:14:54 +0000 OperaNut1972 656@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>I agree with you entirely. As a lifelong lover of the emotive senses one receives from reading a paper book, I was predictably cynical over the whole e-ink and electronic book on a screen thing. However, life changed when my wheelchair arrived and the inability to carry laptop, magazines, books and newspapers hit due to restrictions. I was determined this would not stop me reading. If I'm honest I was starting to get concerned about the size of my personal library anyway and the impact on local woodlands. I switched and haven't looked back. I get the odd real book at christmas and birthday as some of the family have taken a while to understand the reasons why, it means I still get the smells and feel of a new book at least twice a year. The plus points? Well now instead of just a couple of the books I'm reading at the moment I can carry my entire electronic library in one place! Result. I will be even happier when book publishers and authors automatically produce an eBook at the same time of publishing and the price shows the reduction in overheads! Long live eBooks I say! </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87&page=2#post-655 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:14:36 +0000 FAYE 655@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi would anyone be intrested in starting a book club in bere riges. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87&page=2#post-654 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:03:14 +0000 FAYE 654@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi im new to the site but i am really intrested about the book club can i join.<br /> I live in bere riges and i would love to join.<br /> many thanks<br /> Faye </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=419#post-653 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:34:42 +0000 Lyndsay26 653@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi all at (forum)!</p> <p>I'm new to this forum so I thought I would introduce myself a little. My name is Lyndsay and I am interested in the Arts, especially Books and Literature so I was pleased when I came across this discussion group. I particularly like Gothic Literature, classical plays and playwrights, (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Greek tragedy and comedy), 19th and 20th century literature and some more recent modern novels.</p> <p>I look forward to talking!</p> <p>Lyndsay </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=410#post-652 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:05:39 +0000 onevoltperoctave 652@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>As ever I'm reading my favourite classics - all the little penguins from back in the day. outside penguin I've picked up a thriller called No Mercy by John Gilstrap which kept me up until 02:00 this morning.<br /> Then there are all the old Desmond Bagleys which I'm revisiting this summer - McLean last year, Gavin Lyall next summer and so on.<br /> Best of all is The Russian Job by Graham Swinton which is for those folk who got annoyed when Michael Caine, Noel Coward and three minis left a bus hanging over a mountain pass in the ultimate cliffhanger ending. When Troy Kennedy Martin didn't write the sequel Swinton did in time for the Millennium with a 30 year older Charlie Croker getting out of gaol to do the next of Beckerman's jobs. Shakespeare it aint but if you're after a way to fill a few summer hours </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=418#post-651 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:58:06 +0000 onevoltperoctave 651@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>I like my books made out of paper, card, string, glue and pictures. It's nice to sit in a comfortable corner of the train with a book in one hand, England going past in the window and whatever the day's special is next to an espresso and a fizzy water. Or it was. recently I counted twelve books, four magazines, a stack of 'paper' work and a hurting back. So it's hurty-back and dihydrocodeine or...<br /> ... an iPad, a keyboard and over 400 books, all of my work and a download of my four favourite magazine. A bloke and blokess nearby had a kindle and a sony ereader so we did the swap and try out thing.<br /> I'm no longer old fashioned. I need to scrape some book-smell out of the corner of expired library books to spread on the table to get the authentic smell but otherwise all is OK. This missive is part of my plan to bombard all of my favourite publishers (listen up Penguin...) to get the catalogue on to ePubs where the books are cheaper, quicker and never out of stock. As a writer too, I was amazed how quick it was from idea to on the shelf at a price. I wanted The Russian Job out as an eReader and A*m*z*n only took 40 hours including the back catalog check and rights issue. Seems like a winwinwin thing. Shame about the 'real' books but there are libraries and I'll always have the home shelves. It's the portable on a train on the beach in a hotel on an aeroplane thing that books are so good - but so heavy at. So a big vote YES from the onevoltperoctave camp. I know they're not perfect but they float my canoe. However, that's only my opinion, I'd love to hear the other side (but please Penguin... get all my favourites on to Kindle (if you haven't already) </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=417#post-650 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:50:02 +0000 clairepurcell 650@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Calling all readers!</p> <p>We need YOUR help to star in a TV ADVERT to launch our author on PRIME-TIME NATIONAL TELEVISION. </p> <p>In October 2010, Penguin will be putting their biggest advertising campaign of the year behind an exciting debut author. We can't reveal who the author is, but you'll be surprised and delighted when you find out!</p> <p>If you have a passion for brilliantly written, comic women's fiction in the best Readers' Group tradition, or simply have a love of discovering new authors, we want to hear from you.</p> <p>We'll be compiling a long-list of interested readers who will then be interviewed over the phone, via Skype or in person. A selection of you will get an EXCLUSIVE look at this much coveted manuscript to read and react to.</p> <p>After second interviews the final 6 readers will be chosen to STAR IN OUR AD, where they'll have a chance to meet and interview our mystery author! We'll also be giving our 6 stars £100 WORTH OF PENGUIN BOOKS and a SIGNED FIRST EDITION of the book.</p> <p>To enter, write 50 words about why, as a member of a Reading Group, you like to discover new authors. Email your answer to <a href="mailto:marketing@penguin.co.uk">marketing@penguin.co.uk</a> along with your name, age and location.</p> <p>You will need to be available to come to London for the shoot on 7th September. We will cover your travel expenses but not accommodation.</p> <p>CLOSING DATE: Friday 23rd July</p> <p>TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY, PLEASE SEE BELOW</p> <p>Good luck!</p> <p> TERMS AND CONDITIONS<br /> 1. No purchase necessary to enter the competition.<br /> 2. This competition is open to UK residents aged 18 years or over, with the exception of employees of the Promoter, their families, agents and anyone else connected with this promotion.<br /> 3. Entries must be received by midnight on Friday 23rd July. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach the Promoter by the relevant closing date for any reason. Proof of posting or sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are invalid. Entries become the property of the Promoter and are not returned.<br /> 4. Only one entry per person. No entrant may win more than one prize.<br /> 5. To enter write 50 words about why you like to discover new authors and email it to <a href="mailto:marketing@penguin.co.uk">marketing@penguin.co.uk</a>, giving your message the title "TV Ad Entry"<br /> 6. All correctly completed entries will be forwarded to a judging panel made up of the marketing director of Michael Joseph at Penguin books, and the external advert production company. They will select 20 successful entrants to make up our long-list. The entries selected for the long-list will be the entries that in the opinion of the judges show a clear passion for literature, an interest in discovering new authors.<br /> 7. The long-listed entrants will then be contacted by email to arrange a telephone, Skype or face-to-face interview, from which 6 overall winners will be chosen.<br /> 8. The winners' prize is the opportunity to take part in our TV ad shoot on Monday 7 September. Promoter will reimburse each winner for any reasonable travel expenses that they incur in attending the TV ad shoot but no additional expenses will be covered. In the event that you cannot make these dates, no alternative dates will be possible and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the prize to a substitute winner. The 6 winners will also each receive a selection Penguin books of their choice up to the value of £100, and a signed first edition of the author's book.<br /> 9. Prizes are subject to availability. 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To obtain details of the winners please email <a href="mailto:marketing@penguin.co.uk">marketing@penguin.co.uk</a> stating the name of the competition in the subject heading 4 weeks after the closing date.<br /> 13. The Promoter will use any data submitted by entrants only for the purposes of running the competition, unless otherwise stated in the entry details. By entering this competition, all entrants consent to the use of their personal data by the Promoter for the purposes of the administration of this competition and any other purposes to which the entrant has consented.<br /> 14. The winners agree to take part in reasonable post event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity.<br /> 15. By entering the competition each entrant agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions.<br /> 16. The Promoter is Penguin Books Limited, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=114#post-649 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:42:16 +0000 Bossymamma 649@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>A new self-organised reading group has started in the library in Radcliffe, near Bury. We meet on Tuesday mornings at 11.00 about once a month. Our next meeting is on Tuesday 03 August 2010. At the moment we are a small group but we are friendly and welcoming to new members. It's an informal meeting where the discussion about the current book includes other books that are brought to mind. There are no strict rules and we even include free refreshments! For more information contact Radcliffe Library on 0161 253 7160. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=56#post-648 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:34:18 +0000 Bossymamma 648@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>If you live in the Bury area there are reading groups in many of their libraries. You don't have to be a member of the library to join. There are daytime groups and evening groups. Telephone Bury Library for more information on 0161 253 5872. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=416#post-647 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:05:29 +0000 penguin 647@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Have your say on the Classics and discover the thoughts and reactions from other readers. Are the oldies the goodies? Let us know! </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=42#post-646 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:00:44 +0000 JagSembi 646@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hello All,</p> <p>A big thank you to Jen, Natasha (thanks for the lift), Emily and Lucy for attending the meeting last night. :-)</p> <p>Loved the Lord Clifden - must go there again. :-)</p> <p>I think the general consensus regarding 'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson was that it was well liked. The horror creeps up on you slowly and you don't see the end coming as it did.</p> <p>The next book is "The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose" by Alice Munro.</p> <p>We're meeting next on July the 29th.</p> <p>We might go for a meal in Moseley or Kings Heath as a Book Group Outing if people are up for it?</p> <p>See you soon.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Jag. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=413#post-645 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:22:38 +0000 emilybronte4 645@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi Mimi83</p> <p>Let's see if we get any others interested and then maybe we can start something? </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=413#post-644 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:28:06 +0000 Mimi83 644@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi emilybronte4<br /> I was thinking along the same lines for a few days! I'm in Rotherham and a fiction fan too.<br /> I would love to join or start a book club too. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=47#post-643 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:50:51 +0000 rebecca_sw 643@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I'm guessing that you have organised a book group by now, but if not or if you are looking for an extra member, please contact me on twitter as in my profile or here, I am also based in North Bristol and looking for a book group.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Rebecca </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=415#post-642 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:41:16 +0000 Jemima Chalke Authors 642@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Join Chalke Authors. Win Tickets To Meet Bestselling Author William Dalrymple.</p> <p>Bestselling Travel Writer William Dalrymple will be appearing at the following event on the evening of July 15th at Waterstone's High Street Kensington. 7.00 Start.<br /> Chalke Authors have 10 pairs of complimentary tickets to giveaway for this event. To win simply sign up to Chalke Authors on Facebook and email <a href="mailto:jemimaforrester.chalke@hotmail.com">jemimaforrester.chalke@hotmail.com</a> to enter raffle for tickets. You will also be automatically entered to win a copy of William's new paperback, Nine Lives. Winners will be contacted by July 5th.</p> <p>India - Past &#38; Present.<br /> Anthony Sattin, critically acclaimed author of Winter On The Nile, interviews William Dalrymple about his new book, Nine Lives - and his previous travels. Join the discussion yourself about India, past and present, and ask questions.</p> <p>£3 per ticket.<br /> To reserve a ticket please call shop on 02079378432<br /> Or email <a href="mailto:manager@kensington.waterstones.com">manager@kensington.waterstones.com</a></p> <p>Nine Lives, by William Dalrymple.<br /> In this title, a Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfilment living as a Tantric skull feeder in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as a deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. An illiterate goet herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 4,000-line sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi - or temple prostitute - initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling. Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerising, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the region's rapid change. A distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, "Nine Lives" is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales. </p> <p>Winter On The Nile, by Anthony Sattin.<br /> In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to marry, she had been offered a lifeline by family friends who suggested a trip to Egypt, a country which she had always longed to visit. This book follows her journey along the Nile: a romantic adventure, but also a deeply spiritual one. It was during the trip that she found emotional recovery, the inspiration to resist parental pressure and the resolve to pursue her dream of a career in nursing. By an extraordinary coincidence, taking the same boat from Alexandria was an unpublished French writer, Gustave Flaubert. Like Nightingale, he was at the crossroads in his life that was to lead to future acclaim and literary triumph. As it did for her, Egypt for him represented escape and freedom as well as inspiration. But as a wealthy young man travelling with male friends, he had access to an altogether different Egypt: where Nightingale sought out temples and dispensaries, Flaubert visited brothels and harems. Both of them were entranced, moved and liberated by the wonders of the Nile. As privileged early travellers, they saw an ancient landscape unchanged for centuries, and visited monuments still familiar to tourists today. And both wrote magnificently about the sights they saw. This is a book about a key moment in the life of Florence Nightingale, a tantalising portrait of a young woman on the brink of international fame. But it also wonderfully counterpoints her journey with that of a future French literary genius, and it provides fascinating insight into the early days of travel to one of the greatest tourist destinations on the planet. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=106#post-641 Thu, 27 May 2010 07:25:40 +0000 Geraldine P 641@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>P.S. My e-mail address is <a href="mailto:geraldine.powell@hotmail.co.uk">geraldine.powell@hotmail.co.uk</a> if you want to message me. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=106#post-640 Thu, 27 May 2010 07:23:57 +0000 Geraldine P 640@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi both, hope this message finds you! I would love to become involved in reading group but am finding that most take place during the day when I am in work. I am based in Newport but work in Caerphilly, so would welcome one in either! Please get in touch if you are still interested.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Geraldine </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=414#post-639 Thu, 20 May 2010 15:18:58 +0000 mrs s 639@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>I know there are people in Waltham Abbey and surrounds who read I just need to find you!</p> <p>I want to start a new group - or join an existing group if there is one already up and running. </p> <p>The plan is Tuesday evenings central waltham abbey depending on numbers we could meet in my home or at one of the many pubs. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=413#post-638 Thu, 20 May 2010 09:26:31 +0000 emilybronte4 638@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi<br /> Does anyone know of any book clubs in the Rotherham area that meet regulary on an informal basis?</p> <p>Or would anyone be interested in starting one?</p> <p>I'm interested in reading all types of fiction, especially thrillers, travel and books that are a bit 'different'. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87&page=2#post-637 Wed, 19 May 2010 18:29:12 +0000 Iain 637@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Well, we did it. The inaugural meeting of the Dorchester Book Group went ahead as planned. There were only two of us in the end, me and Laura, but you've got to start somewhere. We chatted about what sort of books we've read recently and the sort of stuff we like to read.</p> <p>Laura has already enlisted two more people so there will hopefully be at least four people there next time. We will be reading "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel and meeting to discuss it at 7.30pm Tuesday 29th June at the Poet Laureate pub in Poundbury, Dorchester.</p> <p>Visit <a href="http://dorchesterbookgroup.proboards.com/" rel="nofollow">http://dorchesterbookgroup.proboards.com/</a> to express your interest or leave comments or whatever. Would be good to get an idea of numbers at some point before we meet up again.</p> <p>Iain </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=412#post-636 Wed, 19 May 2010 14:07:06 +0000 Rebecca 636@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Theatre503 is an Olivier award winning theatre, based in the heart of Battersea. The smallest theatre ever to win an Olivier award, we’ve been called a “powerhouse of new writing” and “Arguably one of the most important theatres in London.” If you’re based in South West London then Theatre503 may well be your local theatre. </p> <p>Theatre503 is a fresh, exciting new theatre which debuts a huge variety of new work, from Katori Hall’s award winning “On the mountain top” to our most recent critical success “Madagascar” by J.T Rogers, as well as working with well known actors such as Susannah York, David Harewood and Sorcha Cusack. </p> <p>With Ticket prices range from £14 to £9 for concessions, as well as weekly “Pay what you can nights” a night out at Theatre503 costs less than a third of what you would pay for a west end show. The experience of our 65 seat theatre is intimate and intense. As such there are no bad seats, and you can even bring your drink in with you. We also run meal-deals with the downstairs pub, so why not make a night of it? </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87&page=2#post-635 Mon, 17 May 2010 19:27:16 +0000 Iain 635@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>I'll be there! Poet Laureate, tomorrow at 7.30pm.</p> <p>Iain </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87&page=2#post-634 Mon, 17 May 2010 11:13:12 +0000 imgladimme 634@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Excellent!<br /> I look forward to seeing you both there clutching large books. Hmmm...what to choose... War and Peace? an encyclopedia? the Guinness Book of Records? :)<br /> see you tomorrow!<br /> Laura </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=411#post-633 Mon, 17 May 2010 08:38:23 +0000 Diane 633@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>WE ARE A SMALL GROUP OF 40 SOMETHING MEN AND WOMEN FROM THIS AREA WHO HAVE OUR OWN READING GROUP. wE ARE LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS. iT IS AN INTERESTING GROUP .WE MEET MONTHLY AT 7.30PM IN SOMEONE'S HOUSE. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE CONTACT MY E MAIL <a href="mailto:ADDRESS-lansdowne103@yahoo.co.uk">ADDRESS-lansdowne103@yahoo.co.uk</a> </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87#post-632 Fri, 14 May 2010 18:23:47 +0000 Iain 632@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>So that's three. That will do for starters. Yes, bringing a book would be a good idea. </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87#post-631 Thu, 13 May 2010 19:05:35 +0000 ChattyCathy 631@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>I can be there too. See you next week.</p> <p>How will we recognise each other? We could carry red carnations or wear odd shoes... or perhaps it would be good to bring a (large) book? </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87#post-630 Wed, 12 May 2010 21:44:08 +0000 Iain 630@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Excellent. Any advance on two? </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87#post-629 Wed, 12 May 2010 21:15:31 +0000 imgladimme 629@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hello again folks.<br /> Yes I can do that time and date, so I hope to see you all there next week.<br /> Laura </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=410#post-628 Wed, 12 May 2010 13:14:32 +0000 penguin 628@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <img src="http://readers.penguin.co.uk/static/covers/all/2/8/9780141039282L.jpg" style="float:left; padding: 0 15px 15px 0;"/>I have just finished The Help which I resisted for a long time. The cover of the book didn't tempt, I snobbishly thought it would be concerned with domestic issues which are of no interest to me. Having so many friends tell me 'you're mad (and a book snob too), read it', I opened the first page and... like so many others could not put it down. The author's ability to give life to the three main characters (and a large support cast too) was so skillfully and truthfully done. The sense of place, of that era when so many important things happened and black people began to find a voice was mesmerising and shocking. Most importantly, there is no neatly tied up happy ending. The ending is one of the saddest I've read (I found it hard not to howl out) but there is so much hope for better things to come and a real sense of how things were changing.<br /> <br /> A friend of mine told me it read like a thriller and she was right. I stayed up late, I missed trains, I refused dazzling party invitations till I'd read the last page. Then I looked greedily for more of this author's books. It's her first so it will be a while - but I can't wait. http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=409#post-627 Tue, 11 May 2010 16:06:26 +0000 Kate01 627@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I am looking to start a new book group in the Reigate/Dorking area. I was thinking meeting monthly/fortnightly one evening in the week. I just wanted to know what interest there was out there for it?</p> <p>So please get in touch on <a href="mailto:kate.horden@btinternet.com">kate.horden@btinternet.com</a></p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Kate </p> http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/topic.php?id=87#post-626 Mon, 10 May 2010 20:16:35 +0000 Iain 626@http://penguinreaders.campaignserver.co.uk/ <p>Okay, let's get something organised before everyone drifts away. Why don't we say next Tuesday (18/05/10) at the PL, at 7.30pm? Better to start with just a two or three people and work our way up. I'll hold off booking the NEC for the moment!</p> <p>All those in favour please post a message (don't want to be the only one there). Once we've agreed there are at least two of us going on a particular date my other half can put a message on DCC's noticeboard about it which will hopefully attract some more people.</p> <p>Iain </p>