Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

I have been to slip end. And harpendon.

You are kirsty (and/or phil) and I claim my £5.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I can't remember whether I've asked you this lir, so apologies if I have (sieve memory)... Are you or have you ever been a member of a reading group? A lot of the reading groups I'm familiar with read stuff I think you'd like and that would fit your tastes so I was curious as to whether it was something you'd considered.

I have never been a member of a reading group. . I would, i think though, join one. I would want to know what they had read in the last year. Don't want to get stuck reading maeve binchy or jodi picualt or stuff:eek:

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

You are kirsty (and/or phil) and I claim my £5.

Hmm, why am i not phil? Who is phil?

I would not mind being kirsty.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I have never been a member of a reading group. . I would, i think though, join one. I would want to know what they had read in the last year. Don't want to get stuck reading maeve binchy or jodi picualt or stuff:eek:

I don't know any that read Maeve Binchy and only one that has read Jodi Picoult, though occasionally someone will suggest something along those lines just to see what they are like. Typical current fare: Hare with the Amber Eyes, Wolf Hall, The Sense of an Ending, The Thread, Guernsey Potato Peel Pie Society, The Children's Book, Before I Go To Sleep, When God Was a Rabbit, The Poisonwood Bible, The Tenderness of Wolves... A lot also read classics and modern classics such as Dickens and Steinbeck, and quite a few also read older children's books such as Holes, The Book Thief and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. I don't know if any of those pique your interest but they would be more typical. Though there are plenty of atypical groups too, such as ones that only read NF.

ETA: can't believe I forgot Jamrach's Menagerie. That's really popular.

vivatifosi

Sorry lir, something else I forgot to mention. Mum has started the dog on turmeric. Will let you know how they get on.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I have been to slip end. And harpendon.

Were you also on your way from Luton to St Albans with the motorway shut?

lostinrates

Nf?

I have read a goid few of those, so yep...i would fit in the groups. Sort of standard modern fiction.

What i would really like is a gorup that read the shortlisted/longlisted books for major fiction awards. I think that would get me reading stuff i don't pick up be default iyswim.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Were you also on your way from Luton to St Albans with the motorway shut?

No. I had a freelance job in that area for six weeks and stayed there.

I used to go to court in st albans a fair bit clerking too.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Nf?

I have read a goid few of those, so yep...i would fit in the groups. Sort of standard modern fiction.

What i would really like is a gorup that read the shortlisted/longlisted books for major fiction awards. I think that would get me reading stuff i don't pick up be default iyswim.

Sorry non-fiction. Standard modern fiction is a good way of putting it and is the fare of reading groups.

There are groups that go through things like the Orange and Booker nominees, but you can't easily do that at a library as the demand is for the same books at the same time, so we don't tend to meet as many of those.

PasturesNew

I've read a few Maeves in the past. Usual thing: sad/broken person turns up in windswept Cornwall... finds true love by the last page.