Book Club
9th September
8.00pm
hosted by
Kate no 43 Union Road
Books for discussion are:
'Still Life' by Sarah Winman
&
'The Weekend' by
Charlotte Wood
more information can be
found using the link below
See Book Club page
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We are proud to have a thriving book club (new members always welcome) and we use the web site to record and review all the books we have read as a group since the Book Club was formed by Jean Smith on 24th May 2006. We now approach our 20th Anniversary and will be celebrating with a meal in July at ManR at The Whitaker. Denise Collins was our Book Club Facilitator at our 10th Anniversary and she contacted many of the authors of the books we had read over the first 10 years and they kindly sent congratulations and best wishes to the group. A montage of the books read in the first 10 years appears below.
We continue to be grateful to the Book Club for encouraging us to read books that we would never have chosen for ourselves and then being surprised at how much we enjoyed reading them (most of the time - there are exceptions!).
Here's a montage of the books we have read.
VE Day 8th May 10th Anniversary Of the Book Club Since the first meeting of Book Club
on 24th May 2006 we have read 57 books and many of the authors had been
contacted and were kind enough to send their congratulations and best
wishes to our Book Club
More on the 10th
Anniversary event here or.. Go to the
Book Review Page here Our fundraising efforts continue. Please see the Fundraising page for details. Other events can be found on the new Avenue Events page. We have another new page for your messages. Please send any news items or messages to
jeanmduerden@virginmedia.com to add to the Message Board page. I am still hoping to receive photographs other than those from the Duerden family collection. Please drop in your CDs to number 17 or email your pictures and articles to
jeanmduerden@virginmedia.com. JMD 
We have lots of new neighbours since more houses were built at the end
of the Avenue. Even during lockdown we have been able to get to know
them with a very active WhatsApp group but on VE Day on 8th May 2020 we
all picnicked in our front gardens in glorious weather and were able to
greet each other in a socially distanced way.
After 10 years it’s probably a good time to reflect on if we have
developed as a result of being in a Book Club?.
One of our common comments is that we are grateful to Book Club for
making us read books that we would never have chosen for ourselves. Have
our tastes developed? Do we want more from a book? Do we have higher
expectations? Are we more familiar with a wider variety of authors? What
do we look for in a book in order to be added to our shortlists? – it’s
interesting to note that whilst we have occasionally strayed into
‘fantasy’ (The Bees & The End of Mr Y) and even short stories we have
never chosen Science Fiction.