Reading
Come and join the
EuroMayenne Reading Group
We share a love of books !
NEXT MEETING:
WEDNESDAY 30 October 2024 at 2:30pm
Venue: at a EuroMayenne Member’s house
in Evron (Contact Pam Davies, details below)
This EuroMayenne group is for members to get together each month to discuss a book that they have all just read.
It will encourage you to read more books and books that you might not normally choose.
The reasons that people give for joining a reading group include reading a wide variety of books, making friends, having fun, meeting like-minded people and stimulating the brain cells!
So please come and join us for our fourth year in this venture.
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All dates are subject to current Government and Local Authority restrictions regarding Coronavirus Covid-19 and subject to change or cancellation.
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When
Monthly on the last Wednesday at 2.30 pm.
Please let Pam know (contact details at the bottom of this page) at least one week in advance if you will be going.
So, make notes in your diary for
Book titles – see table below.
These are to be across a wide range of genres including general fiction, mysteries, historical fiction and non-fiction. They are always available in English and French versions. They allow for discussion between both English and French speakers.
Future books to read are decided by the group members.
2024
| Month | Title | Author | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 25 | Still Life | Sarah Winman | 1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship. |
| October 30 | We are all completely beside ourselves | Karen Jay Fowler | It was Rosemary’s parents who began all of the trouble – isn’t it always? But, dear reader, exactly how they did it is a twist you’ll have to discover for yourself. |
| November 27 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. In 1999, the book was voted 96th of Le Monde’s “100 Books of the Century”. |
| December | (no meeting) |
2025
| Month | Title | Author | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 29 | Dissolution | CJ Sansom | England, 1537. It is a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church. Dissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom’s Shardlake series. |
| February 26 | The Braid | Laetitia Colombani | Three women. Three countries. One unforgettable journey. The Braid is a vibrant and singular reminder of what connects us all – across borders, across languages, across cultures. |
| March 26 | My sister the serial killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite | Winner of the 2019 LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller Capital Crime Debut Author of the Year 2019 ‘A bombshell of a book… Sharp, explosive, hilarious’ – New York Times |
| April 30 | Froth on the Daydream | Boris Vian | Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian, a surrealist and existentialist novel renowned for its poetic and creative language. It relates how Colin’s existence darkens gradually when his wife catches an illness than can only be cured with flowers. |
| May 28 | Les vestiges du jour | Kazuo Ishiguro | A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. |
| June 25 | I remember Falloujah | Feurat Alani | In this poignant first novel of memory, identity, and generational trauma, a child of political refugees tries to uncover the past his dying father kept secret, painting a powerful, layered portrait of Iraq from the 1950s to the 2000s. |
Where
At the home of a member in Evron
Contact Pam Davies for details (see below)
Cost
There will be no cost other than the member purchasing/downloading the book of the month.
Refreshments (tea/coffee/cakes) will always be available – all that is asked is for a small donation.
Interested ?
Contact the reading group:
| Pam DAVIES | 02.43.00.87.17 | contact@euromayenne.org |
