Book Club

The next meeting of the book club is on 8 February at Yvonne's house. The book this time is "The Book Thief" by Mrkus Zusak. The book was described by the Guardian as "A novel of breath taking scope, masterfully told."

Book Club Burns Night

The 11 January bookclub has a Burns night theme with all those attending asked to bring their favourite poem. The meeting will be at Dave and Val's house (No.24) and start at 8.00pm for the serious members and 9.00pm for the "social" readers.

Bonfire Night 2006

The prooposal is to have the Bonfire night party on Saturday 4 November in Alan and Rebeccas' garden. The minutes of the organisers will be published in due course.

Moonwalk by Brockholme Belles

There is a proposal that the ladys of Brockholme Road do the Moonwalk. A marathon walk in London on 19 May 2007. The event is to raise money for breast cancer research. All those interested need to speak to Joy (No 1) by Saturday 21 October.

Brockholme Road Book Club

The book club met tonight and discussed Louis de Bernieres book "Birds Without Wings". The universal view was that this was a great book, one of the best that the club has read todate. The sweep of history mingled with the lives of individuals was both informative and enjoyable. The characters were utterly believable and even the history bits were manageable.

The next meeting of the book club is on Friday 24 November at Joy's house, 1 Brockholme Road. The book is Mirriam Toews novel "A Complicated Kindness". Other books mentioned for future meetings were "Arthur and George" by Julian Barnes and Maggie O'Farrels' "The Vanishing Act".