Manchester literature festival

Hi Guys,

I have just booked into a loads of these events today - there are still dsome tickets left (none for Andrew motion's poetry reading though)

The events list can be seen at http://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/.

There are quite a few free events that you can do during lunch hours - check out 4th October, 8th october, 11th october, 12th october

Carol Ann Duffy is over too! I've booked ticket for that (even tbough children's poetry really - she is may favourite poet so glad of any chance to see her read)

Heart of Darkness podcast

Here's that HOD podcast I was talking about. If anyone wants the mp3, I can give them that.

Free Book

Just to let you all know (hopefully not too late!) that if you have the internet, you don't need to buy this book. It's available as an audio book as a podcast on iTunes, and it is also available here to read.

Emma

Emma asked me to pass on her apologies, she's not going to be able to make book group for at least a couple of meetings due to study commitments. She hopes to be back as soon as possible.

May meeting

Hey - what's May's read please?

About Mr Marquez

Amazingly GGM is still going strong at 80. Here's an interesting article.

Meeting Venue?

I was looking on Sugarvine for places that do offers on Thursdays (assuming we are moving to the 15th. www.sugarvine.co.uk)

Anyone fancy www.englishlounge.co.uk - it looks all bookish and library-ish and we get 15% off the bill.

Jules said...

Hi folks,

Sorry to be a pain (again!) but can we make the next meeting on the 15th seeing as no-one had a preference?

Am trying to arrange a meeting and those I'm meeting with have suggested the 12th...

If it's at all a problem for anyone let me know, and I'll work something else out!

And I promise to be better behaved next month :

Jules x

02 February 2007 15:02

Hopefully without detracting from the seriousness of the shooting of Hrant Dink in Turkey this week, which I can only hope will bring Turkey closer to facing up to its past, there are a series of fascinating parallels between this event and the final scenes of 'The Black Book'. See what you think...

Guardian article

Rearranged meet

Julie has requested that we change the date of book group. She suggested Monday 12th or Thursday 15th. So far Julie, Penny, Anne, Natalie and myself have expressed no preference. How about we go for the 12th?

Our Book for February 2007 Is....

...Nella Last's War, which is the diaries of 'Housewife 49' (who it turns out, probably was 49 at some point in the story after all. I am easily confused!) written for the Mass Observation project during the war.

If anyone is interested in Mass Observation and the Mass Observation Archive, their website is here. There is some general info about the history of Mass Observation and, of course, how Mass Observation is continuing today.

Next Meet Postponed

It seems a few of us are a bit behind with the current book and we thought it best to postpone the next meet till the 16th of January (same time same place). I hope this isn't inconvenient for anyone, we can always change the day. Apologies if anyone has tried desperately to finish by the 9th! Georgina has booked us a table, so we don't need to worry about that.

Hi - and Happy New Year to you all. I have to admit because of Christmas and New Year i haven't got very far and i am struggling a little bit. How is everyone else finding it?
I have booked the table for next week at Pizza Express on South King Street. Its under my name.