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Hi everyone
This thread is the place to look if you're wondering where we're up to in Book Club and how to get involved; we realised that all the individual threads each month were getting a bit hard to keep track of!
So, every month as usual we will post the nominations and the poll separately, but the result will be added here with the dates of discussion on the boards and chat. Hopefully this will keep things a bit easier. I'll also keep track of the titles we've already read, so that we don't repeat ourselves
You will also find Book Club as a group, click here to join.
Book club choices and themes:
October 2011: One Day by David Nicholls
November 2011: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
December 2011: The Wind Singer by William Nicholson
January 2012: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
February 2012: When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
March 2012: Snuff by Terry Pratchett
April 2012: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
May 2012: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
June 2012: World War Z by Max Brooks
July 2012 (non-fiction): Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
August 2012 (children's): The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
September 2012 (classics): Persuasion by Jane Austen
October 2012 (coming-of-age): To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
November 2012 (horror): The Passage by Justin Cronin
December 2012 (dystopia): The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
January 2013 (crime): Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
February 2013 (LGBT): Orlando by Virginia Woolf
March 2013 (adaptation, joint with film club): The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
April 2013 (Japan): Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (click here for the discussion)
May 2013 (graphic novels): Maus by Art Spiegelman
June 2013 (animals): Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
July 2013 (sci-fi): I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
August 2013 (summer reading): American Gods by Neil Gaiman: discussion is now open
September 2013 (magic): Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
October 2013 (special tba)
November 2013 (monsters)
Decmeber 2013 (winter)
Chat is on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, at 7pm.
The next chat will be on Wednesday 11th September, talking about American Gods by Neil Gaiman :thumb:
This thread is the place to look if you're wondering where we're up to in Book Club and how to get involved; we realised that all the individual threads each month were getting a bit hard to keep track of!
So, every month as usual we will post the nominations and the poll separately, but the result will be added here with the dates of discussion on the boards and chat. Hopefully this will keep things a bit easier. I'll also keep track of the titles we've already read, so that we don't repeat ourselves
You will also find Book Club as a group, click here to join.
Book club choices and themes:
October 2011: One Day by David Nicholls
November 2011: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
December 2011: The Wind Singer by William Nicholson
January 2012: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
February 2012: When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
March 2012: Snuff by Terry Pratchett
April 2012: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
May 2012: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
June 2012: World War Z by Max Brooks
July 2012 (non-fiction): Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
August 2012 (children's): The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
September 2012 (classics): Persuasion by Jane Austen
October 2012 (coming-of-age): To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
November 2012 (horror): The Passage by Justin Cronin
December 2012 (dystopia): The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
January 2013 (crime): Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
February 2013 (LGBT): Orlando by Virginia Woolf
March 2013 (adaptation, joint with film club): The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
April 2013 (Japan): Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (click here for the discussion)
May 2013 (graphic novels): Maus by Art Spiegelman
June 2013 (animals): Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
July 2013 (sci-fi): I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
August 2013 (summer reading): American Gods by Neil Gaiman: discussion is now open
September 2013 (magic): Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
October 2013 (special tba)
November 2013 (monsters)
Decmeber 2013 (winter)
Chat is on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, at 7pm.
The next chat will be on Wednesday 11th September, talking about American Gods by Neil Gaiman :thumb:
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Chat about The Handmaid's Tale will be on January 16th at 7pm in the chat room.
This month, we're reading Shutter Island, for discussion in February.
Join us!
Planned themes at the moment are film-of-the-book (adaptations) joint with Film Club, Japanese fiction, graphic novels.
Randomgirl suggested this:
I know Fiend wasn't keen, but plays?
(P.S. Picc - main post needs updating with Norwegian Wood por favor
Book Club now has a group on TheSite.org! Click here to join.
View the group here, then you can click on the little cog on the top right and click "join group".
You should be able to join in with the discussion on Maus once you've joined the group.
If you find that inaccessible, do let us know here
Click here (you'll have to join the group if you haven't yet, and then when you want to check on the thread you can either go to Community -> Groups -> Book Club, or What's New? -> New Group Messages.
Join book club to post.
I know a few folk have wanted to nominate in the past but not found a month they can fit into; this month is for you! Click here
Remember that you will need to join the group before you can post
The theme for September will be Magic. More details later, but get your thinking caps on for nominations!
The first nomination is from the lovely Flow, read all about it in the thread.