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A Book Club is always a good way to bond with those people who share your love of books, but occasionally the group needs a little prompting on discussion topics to get the conversation flowing. Please find below a few ideas to get things started. What were you expecting from the book to start with?Continue reading “Lessons In Chemistry: Book Club Questions”

Chemist Elizaabeth Zott is not your average woman, in fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960’s and her all-male team at Hastings Reseach Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-Prize-Nominated grudge-holderContinue reading “Book Review: Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus”

A Book Club is always a good way to bond with those people who share your love of books, but occasionally the group needs a little prompting on discussion topics to get the conversation flowing. Please find below a few ideas to get things started. What were you expecting from the book to start with?Continue reading “Anatomy Of A Scandel: Book Club Questions”

***Warning – Some spoilers*** A high profile marriage thrust into the spotlight. A prosecutor who believes justice has been a long time coming. A scandel that will rock Westminster. And the women caught at the heart of it. I read Anatomy of a Scandal in about one day – It wasn’t quite at ‘can’t possiblyContinue reading “Book Review: Anatomy Of A Scandel, by Sarah Vaughan”

Are you running a Book Club and looking for book suggestions? Have you chosen a book and are now looking for some questions to get the conversation flowing? When I ran a Book Club I liked to go to each meeting with a few questions, just in case things got a little quiet – don’tContinue reading “Book Club Questions”

I had the most glorious weekend – a three day weekend – where I had the leisure to cuddle up under a fluffy blanket with a hot drink and read to my hearts content. If we’re being totally honest about it it wasn’t quite to my hearts content. There was the odd interruption in washingContinue reading “My Reading Weekend”

A Book Club is always a good way to bond with those people who share your love of books, but occasionally the group needs a little prompting on discussion topics to get the conversation flowing. Please find below a few ideas to get things started. What were you expecting from the book to start with?Continue reading “Where Crawdads Sing: Book Club Questions”

For years, rumours of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969 when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immedicately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for yearsContinue reading “Book Review: Where The Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens”

You took The last bus home Don’t know how You got it through the door You’re always doing amazing stuff Like the time You caught that train. For my Other Halfs birthday, I got us a book of Brian Bilston poems. The man is a genius in his simplicity, his humour and his pure wit.Continue reading “You Took The Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston”