Books For Book Groups

January 19, 2015News, Suggestionsadmin

Here is a list of books for Book Groups available from Aberdeen Library.

BookGroupReadingList_Jan_2015 update

January 2015 – Ragtime

November 15, 2014Book, Meetingadmin

The meeting in January will be held on Mon 12th January at 7:30 pm in the Ferryhill Community Centre.

The book under discussion is ‘Ragtime’ by ‘E.L. Doctorow’.

All welcome

Culture Café Events

September 13, 2014Newsadmin

We recently received this invitation from Aga Wlazel at Aberdeen Performing Arts.

Good afternoon,

As a book lovers you probably have heard about Aberdeen Performing Arts Culture Café programme at the Music Hall – we hope to see your group at our upcoming literature talk.

Culture Café lunchtime series of talks and music recitals at the Music Hall is a vehicle for the new literature programme and a stage for young, emerging and new generation classical musicians.

Culture Café guests this season are:

24th September 1pm at the Music Hall

DON PATERSON – one of the finest poets of his generation (and that’s quite a generation!) He has won all the major poetry prizes. His poetry is lyrical and profound, witty, sensual and spiritual, and he’s a captivating reader of his own work. In addition, he has published books of aphorisms and written radio drama, and he’s Poetry Editor at Picador.

http://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/events/culture-cafe-don-paterson-writer

20th November 1 pm at the Music Hall

SIMON ARMITAGE is one of the most genuinely popular poets writing today, right up there alongside Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, producing work that receives the highest critical acclaim and yet is truly accessible. He was named the Millennium Poet in 1999 and was made a CBE in 2010. He has also written fiction, drama and opera libretti, and is a regular on national radio and TV. In performance he is brilliantly droll and deadpan – wickedly funny.

http://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/events/culture-cafe-simon-armitage-writer

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AND TALK TO YOU DURING OUR NEXT CULTURE CAFÉ EVENT.

Previous Books List

September 13, 2014

Here is a list of some of the books the Book Group has read over the last few years…

Oct 2011	The Catastrophist – Ronan Bennett
Nov 2011	East of the Mountains – David Gutterson
Dec 2011	The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers – Paul Torday
Jan 2012	Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson
Feb 2012	A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
Mar 2012	The Twin – Gerbrand Bakker
April 2012	Before I go to Sleep – S.J.Watson
May 2012	We Had it so Good – Linda Grant
June 2012	Ordinary Thunderstorms – William Boyd
Aug 2012	The House at Riverton – Kate Morton
Sept 2012	The Silver Darlings – Neil M Gunn
Oct 2012	Trackman – Catriona Child
Nov 2012	The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna
Jan 2013	Pao – Kerry Young
Feb 2013	Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
March 2013	Brixton Beach – Roma Tearne
April 2013	The Master and Margerita – Mikhail Bulgakov
May 2013	The Crucible – Shona McLean
June 2013	The Moon & Sixpence W Somerset Maugham
August 2013	Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Sept 2013	The Algebraist by Iain M Banks ?
11 November 2013	A Little History of the World by E H Gombrich
9 December 2013	A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby
13 January 2014	Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
10 February 2014	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
10tMarch 2014	The Match by Romesh Gunesekara
14 April 2014	The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
May 2014	no book – workshop
June 2014	419 – Will Ferguson
August 2014	Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

More details can be found in this PDF file.

September 2014–Me Before You

June 29, 2014Book, Meetingadmin

The meeting in September will be held on Mon 8th August at 7:30 pm in the Ferryhill Community Centre.

The book under discussion is ‘Me Before You’ by ‘Jo Jo Moyes’.

October 2014–The Testament of Jessie Lamb

June 28, 2014Book, Meetingadmin

The meeting in October will be held on Mon 13th October at 7:30 pm in the Ferryhill Community Centre.

The book under discussion is ‘The Testament of Jessie Lamb’ by ‘Jane Rogers’.

August 2014 – Bringing Up The Bodies

June 1, 2014Book, Meetingadmin

The meeting in August will be held on Mon 11th August at 7:30 pm in the Ferryhill Community Centre.

The book under discussion is ‘Bringing Up The Bodies’ by ‘Hilary Mantel’.

Latest Suggestions

April 23, 2014Suggestionsadmin

These are the latest suggestions for the Book Group to read.

	Me Before You – Jojo Moyes ”Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.”
	Testament of Jessie Lamb – Jane Rogers ”Jane Rogers creates an extraordinary character in Jessie Lamb, determined to make her life count in a self-destructing world as the certainties of her life are ripped apart.”
	The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce ”Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn’t heard from in twenty years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye. ”
	Instructions for a Heatwave – Maggie O’Farrell ”The stunning new novel from Costa Award winning novelist Maggie O’Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he’s going round the corner to buy a newspaper.”
	The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens ”Edwin Drood is contracted to marry Orphan Rosa, but they break the engagement off-and soon afterwards Edwin disappears. Is it murder? And is his jealous uncle-a sinister choirmaster with a double life and designs on Rosa-the killer? Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.”
	Ragtime – E L Doctorow ”Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Emma Goldman preaches free love and feminism, while ex-chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt inspires a mad millionaire to murder the architect Stanford White.”
	Tenth of December – George Saunders ”A new story collection, the first in six years, from one of our greatest living writers, MacArthur “genius grant” recipient and New Yorker contributor George Saunders.”
	Three Day Road – Joseph Boyden ”Inspired in part by real-life World War I Ojibwa hero Francis Pegahmagabow, this unblinking, impeccably researched novel is the astonishing story of two Cree snipers in the killing fields of Ypres and the Somme, and the winding journey home to northern Ontario that only one of them will make. A remarkable tale of brutality, survival, and rebirth.”
	Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway “From the author of the international best seller The Gone-Away World—a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster’s son and a retired secret agent who team up to save the world.”