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Like to read? Book club meetings are held monthly, and members rotate picking a book and hosting the discussion. Some of us also bring used books to exchange for those times when one book a month just isn't enough!

To join the Book Club and to meet other book lovers please send an email to Meike Erichsen or April Thompson


Upcoming Events - 2009

Past Events - 2009

EventBook Club Meeting and Movie Night
DateTuesday, May 26th, 2009
Time19:00
CostFree
Meeting PlaceLBS- room TBC
Details and Direction

This month we will meet to discuss the book Wonder Boys and watch its adaptation with Michael Douglas.

Synopsis:
Grady Tripp is a middle-aged Philanderer with a penchant for pot and failed marriages, who is unable to complete the long-awaited follow up to his award-winning novel. His brilliant student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed with Hollywood suicides and prone to fabrication and petty thievery. In their odyssey through the streets of Pittsburgh, Grady and James are joined by Grady's pregnant mistress, his hilarious bizzare editor, and an achingly beautiful student lodger. The result is a wildy comic, poignantly moving, and ultimately profound search for past promise, future fame, and a purpose to Grady's life.

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ContactAndrea Tucker or April Thompson
 
EventBook Club Meeting
DateWednesday, 8th April 2009
Time19:00
CostFree
Meeting PlaceApril’s Flat (#702, Belvedere Heights, 199 Lisson Grove, NW8 8HZ)
Nearest TubeMarylebone
Details and Direction

Bakerloo line to Marylebone Station – exit the station and walk west to Lisson Grove. Turn right (North) on Lisson Grove and walk to Building 199! Buzz Flat 702.

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ContactMeike Erichsen or April Thompson
 
Event Book Club Meet for April
Location TBA
Description

Discussion of the Book: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

The presidents of the partners book club would like to extend a formal invitation to all current and possibly new members to join the book club this year! We meet once a month in a partner's house to discuss a book and to chat about school, work, life etc. The book we have chosen for April is 'Three Cups of Tea' by Greg Mortenson. Here is a brief book summary:

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban

We are proposing meeting in early April to discuss this book - the details will be sent out shortly.

Date TBA - Early April
TimeTBA
ContactMeike Erichsen or April Thompson
 
Event Book Club Meet for February
Location TBA
Description

Discussion of the Book: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Here's a summary of the book, provided by Dani:

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered to be Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

Date Wednesday, 25th February 2009
Time7:00pm
ContactMeike Erichsen at meikeerichsen@gmail.com
 
    Committee Members
  Name   April Thompson
Club OfficeBook Club Coordinator
NationalityCanadian
Lives inMarylebone
ProfessionN/A
PartnerTodd Rice - MBA 2010
ChildrenNone

  Name   Meike Erichsen
Club OfficeBook Club Coordinator
NationalityGerman
Lives inFinchley Road
ProfessionN/A
PartnerGonzalo Rosa - MBA 2010
ChildrenNone