This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One. To commemorate this we teamed up with Penguin to find four passionate reading groups who were interested to read about WWI from different perspectives. Each group will read and review three of Penguin’s centenary titles and share their thoughts with us.
Southside Wine and Chat
The Southside Wine and Chat book group does exactly what it says on the tin. We read books, chat about them in a very informal manner, drink a lot of wine and eat cheese while we chat some more.
Because the group is made up of friends, and friends of friends who soon become friends, the chat often drifts away from the book and back via related subjects over the course of an evening.
We’re very pleased to be involved in the World War One reading group project. It’s exciting to have a chance to read these three books, they’re ones which we’d not otherwise have chosen. It’s a bit nerve-wracking to think we’ll be blogging and tweeting about our reading, but it should be fun too. We’re on the look-out for creative ways to combine the reading with other commemorative events.
Snaith Readers
We are a lively group of ladies (men NOT excluded, we just don’t have any as members!) who meet once a month to discuss various books. We have a different theme or author to discuss every month, chosen by group members. We meet in the library and all the books we review are East Riding of Yorkshire library books. We love to try new books and authors we normally wouldn’t read as individuals. We meet on the second Tuesday of every month at Snaith Library at 2.30pm. New members welcome!!
Blackheath Reading Group
The Blackheath 11am reading group meets on the first Thursday of each month. We are a well established group with 10 members. Our group enjoys reading a wide range of genres including non-fiction. At the end of each of our meetings we all score the current book from one to ten which we record on simple chart. Then at the end of the year we look back at our list to see what books received the highest and lowest scores. We recently discussed My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young and Toby’s Room by Pat Barker both novels have a first world war setting , which produced an interesting discussion. We are excited to have been selected to take part in this project and look forward to reading and reviewing the books.
Giffnock Library Reading Group
On paper we sound like the stereotypical library group as we are an all ladies group over 50 years of age however that would be far from the truth. Although we have become quite a close group over the years we all have our own opinion about the books we read and the other topics we discuss which, as we like to express them, makes for lively discussions.
