Books and Bookshop recomendations

The Sisters Brothers

By Marion F-S ⋅ January 9, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Our Book Club Christmas ChoiceThe Sisters Brothers, by Patrick DeWitt: a clever title and a clever cover. I’m not quite sure how clever – rather than simply entertaining – the book itself is and after our annual husbands-invited Christmas book club evening I feel none the wiser. Truth be told, I started off at a [...]

Books!

By Marion F-S ⋅ September 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

…Thoughts provoked by a Book Exchange in a Telephone Kiosk…This post leads on really from a great idea we saw and shared on our Facebook page (look for a post actually headed ‘Great idea!’ with a pic of a red telephone kiosk stuffed with books) for a book exchange that apparently some villages are setting [...]

All Passion Spent Again

By Marion F-S ⋅ July 26, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

…Our Book Club Verdict…“How marvellous and strange’ writes Joanna Lumley in the introduction to our copies, ‘that a book which begins and ends with death should be so joyous and wickedly funny’. Joyous and wickedly funny the book is, and we all loved it, finding it a beautifully written, wonderfully sensitive often humorous portrayal of [...]

The Scarlet Letter: A Good Read?

By Marion F-S ⋅ April 3, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

…A Rather Insensitive Thumbs Down from the Parwich Five’ Book Club … In our house we have more paintings and pictures than wall space. We have nothing valuable in money terms but all valuable in what each picture means to us; I could say the same about books. I put some of my favourite books [...]

Comments and Local Recommendations from our Guests

By Marion F-S ⋅ May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

…With lots of links so you can see for yourselves…These comments below all come from the Visitors’ Books too, but as they have some very helpful recommendations I have extracted them and put in links to help any research (I haven’t repeated any links (e.g. the George, which doesn’t appear after the first one). I [...]

At last! Precious Bane… the promised book post

By Marion F-S ⋅ May 6, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Let’s hope it is worth the wait because I’m not exactly ecstatic about the book in question, which is fairly unusual for me; the other four in our group all loved it so I was a bit out on my own but fortunately that never matters in our discussions. The last choice for our book [...]

Of Reading and Book Clubs and Things

By Marion F-S ⋅ May 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This may be rather rushed. I have made a date with myself (and John of course) to watch ‘Three in a Bed’ at 8.30. Apparently it is quite funny, about B&B owners… I shall know more next time. Anyway, I promised that I would write about books today, having started yesterday but ended up interrupting [...]

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