This month our reading group was lucky enough to be chosen by the Reading Agency to read David Diop’s 2021 International Booker Prize winning book At Night All Blood is Black, and whew, what a read it was! A short, Read More …
Category: Reading group
Staycation in style with Warwickshire Libraries
We’re having a break from our monthly Twitter #HealthChat until October but have invited our Warwickshire colleague Emily to write a post about all what’s available at your local public library. We are amazed at all the activities they provide Read More …
Going international
International travel continues to be difficult but fortunately according to the writer Mason Cooley “reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are”. So we are really excited to be reading the winner of the Read More …
Living with dementia, Somebody I used to know
This month our Wellbeing Reading Group was privileged to host Wendy Mitchell the author of our latest read Somebody I Used to Know. Wendy wrote her memoir of being diagnosed and living with dementia alongside her co-author Anna Wharton, and Read More …
Strike sure or were we about The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing?
Well a bit more of a mixed kitbag for this book than our recent reads, perhaps due to not all of us managing to finish the book before our virtual discussion. At 504 pages it’s a lengthy book and it Read More …
Fascinated with The Familiars
It’s been a busy month so just a brief summary of our thoughts this time. Everyone enjoyed reading The Familiars, a fictional tale based at the time of the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612. The book is well researched and Read More …
The comfort of reading for pleasure
Continuing to embrace the comfort of reading our GEH Wellbeing Reading Group met virtually again last Thursday (coincidently World Book Day 🙂 ) to share our thoughts about our February book, The Comfort of Others by Kay Langdale. February is Read More …
Bound to like The Binding?
Yes it was a thumbs up to this intriguing novel from most of the group. A couple gave up reading early on, others felt it was a tad long but those of us who finished the book thoroughly enjoyed it Read More …
Guess what the reading group had for Christmas?
That’s right…books! Our January 2021 wellbeing reading group meeting Kicked off our reading year in style, with a free and easy session to share what we’re reading right now, and the booky goodness we got for Christmas. It was fabulous Read More …
Our House – disappointing on viewing
It’s fair to say most of us expected more from British Crime & Thriller Book of the Year for 2019. Some enjoyed the book, others gritted their teeth and persevered to the end, one skipped a chunk in the middle, Read More …