South Manchester Book Group: 2008

South Manchester Book Group

We're a friendly and open 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 pm. We can usually be found on the table with the books and flirtinis.

If you enjoy talking about books over a quiet drink, then please join us — new members are very welcome.

Our reading list, past, present, and future, appears here and a short version of what we’re reading next is here.

Thursday, 11 December 2008

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).

Thursday, 27 November 2008

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!

Thursday, 13 November 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

Thursday, 16 October 2008

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday

Thursday, 2 October 2008

Taken for a Ride - Neil Roland

Thursday, 18 September 2008

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Thursday, 4 September 2008

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Thursday, 21 August 2008

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.

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Are You Experienced - William Sutcliffe

Thursday, 24 July 2008

Dubliners - James Joyce

Thursday, 10 July 2008

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

Thursday, 26 June 2008

The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Surfacing - Margaret Atwood

Thursday, 29 May 2008

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

Thursday, 15 May 2008

Anthropology And a Hundred Other Stories - Dan Rhodes

Thursday, 1 May 2008

My Booky Wook - Russell Brand

Thursday, 17 April 2008

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Thursday, 3 April 2008

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!