BOOK CLUB - Galway

Thanks Cohanlon. That sounds like a good idea especially if there is quite a lot of interest from potential members i.e. more members could be accommodated at 2 or 3 different meetings rather than over-crowding 1 gathering alone. Anyway, I'll suggest it at the initial meeting and depending on numbers, maybe we could get volunteers to become moderators.

I know that there are people interested in the BookClub who cannot attend the 1st meeting. Therefore, can these people please let me know for sure that they are interested in joining so that if needs be, a 2nd or even 3rd night can be arranged allowing more flexibility. That way I would have a good idea of numbers. Your help would be appreciated!

I will indeed Cohanlon. What does "bump" mean? Seriously

Hi everyone,

Remember...the 1st meeting of BookClub is this evening at 7:30 in Bar No. 8:)

Hello Everybody,

I would like to say thank you to everyone who showed up yesterday evening at the 1st meeting of BookClub. As MattKid just said, 11 people attended so I suppose it was quite successful. These were as follows:

DazBag
Karl W
Hazel F
Secburd
Mattkid
Padraig B
Damien G
Tristanc
Caitriona
Anne Marie
and Myself.

Venue: The group decided that Bar No. 8 was an ideal venue for club purposes and we will continue to hold our meetings here. The bar management said this was fine and the barman even dropped a complimentary cheese selection to our table

Time Allocation per book: It was agreed that we will hold our meetings on a forthnightly basis on a Tuesday evening at the same time (7:30pm). Of course, some interested parties couldn't attend on a Tuesday evening so I would be great if we could get a volunteer to moderate on an alternative week night, if there are enough other people interested. Any volunteers??? Can anyone interested in attending on another evening please post something up here so that we can have an idea of numbers. Also, by having a 2nd evening available, members could switch if for some reason they can't attend on their usual night, as the same books would be discussed.

Book Nominations: For the purposes of getting the ball rolling, I handed out a Top 20 list of books I downloaded off the internet

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1721526,00.html

The group went through the list and we dismissed any book already read so that we could narrow the field. 2 or 3 books had already been read by some members but they didn't mind re-reading them for the sake of the group as they believed that they were definitely worth the read. In the end, 3 books stood out from the list when the vote was finalised and it was agreed that we would read all 3 successively. These were:

1st book to be read by the next meeting (19th Feb) - The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

2nd book to be read by 4th March - the Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

3rd book to be read by 18th March - the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon.

It was suggested by Mattkid that in the future each member, by rota, should be allowed to nominate a book of their own choice to the group as a whole. The rest of the members seemed to think this was a good and fair idea so I suppose after the above-mentioned books are finished, this is how the club will proceed. Karl W suggested also that if a book is nominated that is very long, it could be divided into sections so that the whole thing wouldn't necessarily have to be finished within the 2 weeks. And please, no Bible nominations:)


I think I have covered most topics in relation to our 1st meeting but please fill us in if I haven't. All suggestions from anyone are more than welcome and finally, I would just like to say that I for one had a very nice evening yesterday. I met new people in a nice, peaceful environment where we discussed literature amongst other things. Not a bad evening at all

JustMary wrote: »

+1

I can't manage a book in a fortnight, but a month should be ok.

Who knows the cheapest place to buy a copy of this month's book?





Oh joy, another event to watch out for. My workmates have just finished warning me about the novena. Now what's this "rag week" thing about? (I'm not from around here, and seriously haven't heard of this one ...)

Hi,

I'd say the best place to get a cheap/2nd hand copy of the books is in Charlie Byrne's 2nd hand book shop in the Corn Store, City Centre. It's on the same street as the Augustinian Church and just a few doors away from River Deep Mountain High and Ti na nOg

It's in Bar No. 8 on Dock Road at 7:30pm. I don't know if Rag Week celebrations will have an effect on the plcae but hopefully not, or hopefully at least not that early.

Hope to see lots of people there