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London Bookgroup welcomes all - 2008

dolly's gal said:
i should like to do this in 2008. how does the location thing work again? is it always in brixton? if so, i think i'm setting myself up for fail, living as i do in walthamstow :)
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It's not always in Brixton, but it is more often than not, because a majority of the people who offer to host it live there. We usually start around 7-7.30pm, so most people go straight from work... so no reason why it can't be held outside of Brixton :)
 
2007 wasn't a blue ribboned year for my bookgroup attendance but 2008 will be different.

now admittedly Northern Lights isn't the best start but at least i've read the book and the issues i have with it will be saved for the wine fuelled discussion.
 
I've read the book and I have babysitting on Thursdays, and I think I'm free that Thursday too. I'll pencil it in and try to persuade my GF to come too; she's read the book, but doesn't tend to love the analysis like I do.
 
Orang Utan said:
I couldn't possibly be in the same room as someone who doesn't like cheese! :-P
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It's not that I don't like cheese, but more that it doesn't like me! :eek:

And you have been in the same room as me before and survived, you know! :)
 
I doubt I could manage january but I read and I'm a fan of cheese (also coming down from north london) so I may show concrete interest later on if that's :cool:
 
just wondering what the book for Jan was and what the date of the next bg was... thanks C for starting the thread... can you make it sticky too?

pshaww! to all those wine / cheese naysayers... next you'll be saying you don't like / are allergic to books! :D :p
 
after deserting the bookgroup for ages and ages - i should probably get my arse in gear and attend this one. However, I'm sposed to be detoxing, and so will forgo both wine and cheese. I will bring crudites, as well as my usual crudeness...:D
 
I thought it was this thursday and Northern Lights by Philip Pullman? At least, that is what it says in the OP.

Not sure where it is, though?
 
I'm still up for this. Where will it be? If no-one else offers, it could be held at my house, though it's in Bethnal Green, not Brixton.
 
I might come for the first time.
ps Guineveretoo, I don't think either of those things are required for membership :)
 
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Go for it!

Who is going to decide the venue? I am serious about my house being available, and you are all welcome, and I am free on Thursday, and I have already the book, and I allow cheese in the house even if I don't eat it myself, but I doubt that anyone would want to come to South Norwood/Croydon for their bookclub, so I am waiting for someone to offer their pad in Brixton! :D
 
I vote for your house. Let's take over while they're all at some Sunday cheese-soiree or something :cool:
 
Bloody 'ell, that's a bit radical! Not sure how I would get home to South Norwood from Bethnal Green. Took me hours last time I went to Brick Lane! :eek:

But okay, if that is the consensus...
 
We'll converge from near and far. None of that Brixton vortex to contend with. And there are several cheese-deniers speculating about coming. :cool:
 
Guineveretoo said:
Bloody 'ell, that's a bit radical! Not sure how I would get home to South Norwood from Bethnal Green. Took me hours last time I went to Brick Lane! :eek:

But okay, if that is the consensus...
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It's quite easy from my place - get the 48 ( which stops very near my flat) to London Bridge station and then get the train from there to Norwood Junction or Croydon. Depends how far you live from the station, of course.

Somebody in Brixton's probably offered their place up too, of course, and that'd be easer for most people I guess.
 
Guineveretoo said:
Who is going to decide the venue?
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Whoever offers their place up... no reason why people wouldn't come to yours if you're offering. As long as cheese is allowed ;) :D

Second time in a long time I've finished the book, but not sure if I can make it yet :o
 
BiddlyBee said:
Whoever offers their place up... no reason why people wouldn't come to yours if you're offering. As long as cheese is allowed ;) :D

Second time in a long time I've finished the book, but not sure if I can make it yet :o
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I am offering, and I do allow cheese. In fact, I still have cheese graters and cheese slicers, and even a cheese knife, having had a daughter (and myriad lodgers over the years) who put cheese on everything!

But others seem to be offering their pad, too, and I don't want to be assertive about it being at mine if no-one will come because it's in South Norwood....
 
I have offered! But I was not the only offer. :)

Someone had better decide, quick!

Do we need a focus group? A poll? Another thread? What?
 
Hi, I'd like to join! But don't have a sufficiently nice pad (in that live in house similar to student slum) to invite book club over to. Is that a problem?
 
Bookgroup has been held in student-style slums (eg. nu-urban towers, and the hivemind) plenty of times. No furniture is too unwashed, no curtains too smoke-laden.
 
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