South Manchester Book Group: 2008

South Manchester Book Group

We're a friendly and open South Manchester pub-based reading group, and we share a love of books and discussing them with other people. We meet every fortnight, but you don't have to come to them all. It's dead simple; choose a book you like the sound of, read it (or even part of it) beforehand and turn up with a few ideas and money for beer / wine / flirtinis. It's very informal, and we're quite a friendly bunch. We meet at a pub in Didsbury around 8.30 pm, and can usually be found on the table with the books and flirtinis.

We've become rather popular recently so unfortunately aren't accepting new members just at the moment. But please drop us a line on the Contact Us form and we'll add you to our mailing list.

Our reading list, past and present, appears below. Our upcoming schedule of what we’re reading next is here.

Basketcase - Carl Hiaasen

Basketcase - Carl Hiaasen

CHRISTMAS MEAL - please note that for this week's meeting we will be combining the book discussion with a Christmas meal at That Cafe in Levenshulme.

The Christmas menu can be found here and if you want to attend, please let Liz know (email: bookgroup [at] btinternet.com) by 20th Nov (there is a £5 non-refundable deposit required).

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Due to a bit of...errr...confusion, we'll also be discussing the last book (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) this week!

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday

Taken for a Ride - Neil Roland

Beloved - Toni Morrison

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

This seems to be a fairly commonly available, comprehensive and cheap collection of Poe.

The Table of Contents can be viewed here - I suggest that at the previous meeting we decide which stories/poems we want to focus on.

Are You Experienced - William Sutcliffe

Dubliners - James Joyce

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton

Surfacing - Margaret Atwood

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

Anthropology And a Hundred Other Stories - Dan Rhodes

My Booky Wook - Russell Brand

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Why Don't You Stop Talking - Jackie Kay

Why Don't You Stop Talking - Jackie Kay

This is a collection of short stories and should hopefully allow time for people to get a head start on the next book which is quite lengthy!