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BOOK CLUB - Galway

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  • #1622
    hyperbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 511 ✭✭✭hyperbaby


    carol123 wrote: »
    Hiya hyperbaby!

    Thought the movie was ok but preferred the book. You should check out the version for tv from the 80's starring Alec Guinness. Way better. :)

    Hello carol123!

    I went to see the movie but I fell asleep for 45 minutes so I was totally lost.
    I had a feeling that the book might be better anyway.

    Do you have any good movie or book recommendations for me?
    I have A LOT of spare time at the moment.


  • #1623
    aodh90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭aodh90


    hyperbaby wrote: »
    Hello carol123!

    I went to see the movie but I fell asleep for 45 minutes so I was totally lost.
    I had a feeling that the book might be better anyway.

    Do you have any good movie or book recommendations for me?
    I have A LOT of spare time at the moment.


    If you have a lot of spare time I recommend delving into Joyce's novels


  • #1624
    carol123
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭carol123


    :D
    hyperbaby wrote: »
    Hello carol123!

    I went to see the movie but I fell asleep for 45 minutes so I was totally lost.
    I had a feeling that the book might be better anyway.

    Do you have any good movie or book recommendations for me?
    I have A LOT of spare time at the moment.

    Hey hyperbaby

    Maybe you could come back and visit if you have so much free time? :D i really liked the last book we read for the BC. It was Nights At the Circus by Angela Carter. Will have a bit of a think...:rolleyes:


  • #1625
    ladhrann
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭ladhrann


    Just a reminder next meeting is 28th February at 8.30pm in the Cottage Bar, Salthill and the book/tale/story is The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.

    Plus ideas for the mooted night out on the tiles?


  • #1626
    Nollaigl
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Nollaigl


    Hi, can anyone join the Book Club do you have a website? Or FB page?
    Would love to come along and start getting involved.


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  • #1627
    ladhrann
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭ladhrann


    Nollaigl wrote: »
    Hi, can anyone join the Book Club do you have a website? Or FB page?
    Would love to come along and start getting involved.

    Its pretty free and easy, just turn up at a meeting and you're in!


  • #1628
    carol123
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭carol123


    ladhrann wrote: »
    Its pretty free and easy, just turn up at a meeting and you're in!

    Just a brief initiation rite, but the paddles are only little. ;)


  • #1629
    Nollaigl
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Nollaigl


    carol123 wrote: »
    Just a brief initiation rite, but the paddles are only little. ;)
    LOL!


  • #1630
    ladhrann
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭ladhrann


    carol123 wrote: »
    Just a brief initiation rite, but the paddles are only little. ;)

    Any sight of that nomination before we have to convene the kangaroo court and mete out the paddlings?


  • #1631
    eveya
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭eveya


    hey guys,

    sorry I haven't been able to make it since my first appearance in the middle of january, been feeling under the weather, hope to be back for the next session! Might even be really good and read the book this time! :D


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  • #1632
    ladhrann
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭ladhrann


    Any sign of a nomination? If its left any longer you'll leave me no choice but to put up The Game by Neil Strauss!


  • #1633
    geekychick
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭geekychick


    ladhrann wrote: »
    Any sign of a nomination? If its left any longer you'll leave me no choice but to put up The Game by Neil Strauss!

    :eek: :eek:

    If you do, then on my turn I'll go with with one of your perennial faves, Dworkin, Greer or Steinem. :P

    carol123, nomination please - it's an emergency now, as you can see!

    eveya, looking forward to seeing you again next time so. :) Make sure you scan the whole pub though, sometimes we are no longer in the front room; the force of circumstance.


  • #1634
    carol123
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭carol123


    Ok, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I'm sure everyone will finish it too!


  • #1635
    carol123
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭carol123


    Hi folks!
    Unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll make it in this evening, still at work. :( But should have quitened down by next time. Have a nice St Patrick's weekend!


  • #1636
    blastfurnace
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭blastfurnace


    Hi,

    Myself and my partner are currently looking to get out and meet some new people. Just wondering can anyone join this book club? Do you have to buy the books?? I'm very new to this sort or thing.....also wondering (no offence to anyone) is this club suitable to early twenty year olds??

    Again I'm very new to this.


  • #1637
    Martty81
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Martty81


    All quiet on the Book Club front at the moment so I'll jump in and answer this one!

    Yes all new members are gladly welcome. The club meets every second Tuesday in The Cottage Bar Salthill. We used to be in the room on the left as you come in the door but that's no longer guaranteed so just have a scoot around for a table of people with some books. The club is very suitable to those in their early twenties!

    You don't have to buy the books, some members get them from the library but others tend to get them in Charlie Byrnes or on websites that sell second hand books at cheap prices.

    Does anyone know what the next book is? Also what was this weeks book? Just for my records....


  • #1638
    Martty81
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Martty81


    PS By my calculation, the next book is the 100th of the Book Club! Congrats!


  • #1639
    carol123
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭carol123


    Hi folks

    Any idea what the next book is? I know I haven't been for a while, but was kinda caught up with work. :)


  • #1640
    geekychick
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭geekychick


    No next book. (:eek:) The last book was Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood".

    I don't think I'll be able to make it to the next meet. I suppose whoever shows up, go ahead and nominate. :)


  • #1641
    MagicM83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭MagicM83


    Hi guys!

    Hope you're all well. I'm living in Melbourne now, did a bit of travelling since leaving Galway, but am hoping to start following the book club reading again
    :-)

    I'll start with the next book

    :)


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  • #1642
    hyperbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 511 ✭✭✭hyperbaby


    Melbourne, that's cool :D
    I'm living in Korea at the moment!

    Just checking in to see if the book club is dead?


  • #1643
    bethm
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭bethm


    Hi all have not logged on in ages glad to see ye all alive and well and still same old same old. We have not yet got to hold a meeting here in morocco but maybe some day soon one never knows. Shame I cant get my hands on books here and could do as German Sandra does but no worries am still reading and had a few friends out lately and am spoilt for choice with what they brought me out am just starting Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanida Negoziadichie, any insights?


  • #1644
    geekychick
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭geekychick


    Hello, you cosmopolitan bunch! :)

    Thanks for checking in on here, good to know things are going well in Oz, Korea and Morocco respectively. May that long be the case!

    Regretfully, the Book Club is dead/"on a hiatus" at the moment. No one else showed up the last two times I did, and I myself wouldn't be best placed to be rallying things around at present.

    However, keep reading folks! :) All the best to everyone.


  • #1645
    hyperbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 511 ✭✭✭hyperbaby


    Dead? Awww crap :(
    Maybe it can rise from the ashes in September when people are back in Galway??


  • #1646
    barhoula
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭barhoula


    hyperbaby wrote: »
    Dead? Awww crap :(
    Maybe it can rise from the ashes in September when people are back in Galway??

    Ya hopefully it can get the numbers back, I was just looking to come along too! :(


  • #1647
    carol123
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭carol123


    geekychick wrote: »
    Hello, you cosmopolitan bunch! :)

    Thanks for checking in on here, good to know things are going well in Oz, Korea and Morocco respectively. May that long be the case!

    Regretfully, the Book Club is dead/"on a hiatus" at the moment. No one else showed up the last two times I did, and I myself wouldn't be best placed to be rallying things around at present.

    However, keep reading folks! :) All the best to everyone.

    Hey folks!
    Didn't hear from anyone after I posted asking what the next book was and saw nothing up for weeks after so I presumed it had died. I'd be very willing to get back into it if there were other takers? :)


  • #1648
    barhoula
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭barhoula


    carol123 wrote: »
    Hey folks!
    Didn't hear from anyone after I posted asking what the next book was and saw nothing up for weeks after so I presumed it had died. I'd be very willing to get back into it if there were other takers? :)

    Hey! I do understand the group has stalled just at the moment but if we can rally numbers Id gladly help out also. It would be a shame if it couldnt keep going. Can we spread the word and even if we have a few people we could have an informal meet to see how things can go. Any thoughts??!


  • #1649
    geekychick
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭geekychick


    carol123 wrote: »
    Hey folks!
    Didn't hear from anyone after I posted asking what the next book was and saw nothing up for weeks after so I presumed it had died. I'd be very willing to get back into it if there were other takers? :)

    Hi carol123,

    just to keep you in the loop, the next book was never nominated because no-one showed up for the last couple of meets in the Cottage, so by extension it was I think fair to assume that no-one else cared one way or the other, and I myself got a bit tired of sitting there on my todd; nominating a book for a next ghost meeting would be a bit silly, no?

    I currently have a good dose of flu, however luckily barhoula has taken it upon himself to rally the BC a bit. (as seen above) :)

    Perhaps one of you could start things off again with a nomination and we'll see how that goes? I will bow out this time, as I'm really quite ill, so not sure if I will be able to read the next nom (but I'll do my best to make it to the meet.)


  • #1650
    carol123
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭carol123


    How about we just meet up anyway whether we've got a nomination or not and start from there? We can just discuss favourite books or whatever? So when suits people? I know you're under the weather geekychick so no worries. I won't make it this week myself.:)


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  • #1651
    barhoula
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭barhoula


    Ya sounds great. A meet up just to have a chat about things, see what everyone would like to do in the group, chat about what wer reading now or whatever....Im in anyway! Would say, next Monday, suit you Carol123? & Hopefully Geekychic will be recovered by then too. We can try spread the word!


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