I think it would be great to go see the play. Rebecca watched an old tv version on you tube, but I think i'd rather see it on stage! Looking forward to seeing you all on tuesday, complete with baubles!
Annie

What a coincidence - let's do it!

I just saw what pencil lead posted - and I think it would be swell to go and see the play of a book we just read (or half way through it as it is my case)... who is is?

Hi Everyone

I thought that the info below was quite topical. I also noticed that there is an exhibition on Nephretiti at the Art and History Museum until Feb.
.......
Howard Productions
HOWARD PRODUCTIONS - well-known for bringing professional stage productions of classic English-language theatre to Geneva
How to book
Coming in January 2009
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” on 29, 30 & 31 January 2009 at the Salle Centrale (La Madeleine) in the Old Town of Geneva.
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Great blog!

I just wanted to say that I too think that the blog is excellent.....well done Maria. I hope that we will all get used to using it..... may take a bit of practice.

Thanks Jess for a great evening the other night. I hope that you are doing OK and not too jet lagged (and that your arms are back in working order). Always great to catch up with all of you.

I look forward to our next meeting.

A+

J

Xmas meeting

Hi Guys, great looking blog Maria, you're a star! Great meeting at Jess's, looking forward to the next one chez Yo....are we having any kind of gift exchange for Xmas, I know in the past we've done books and bookmarks(with varying degrees of success!!). Any ideas?
Love and hugs
Anne

January's Reading Choices

Our choices for January were:

*Jose Saramago's "Seeing"

*Nick Drake's "Nefertiti" and

*France's Itani "Deafening"

after a lot of adding and subtracting... the majority voted:

• Nerfertiti by Nick Drake
  

here is a review published in Amazon:

"In his first ever book Nick Drake lead the readers to the heart of it all: the court of Akhenaten and Nefertiti and its dangerous power struggles. Nick Drake puts his fictional character Rahotep into this world of Pharaoh's court and he has to solve the great mystery which turned out to be of very different nature as expected. It is strong plot, bold of characterisation, adventure and dazzling evocation of the past. The description of the ceremonies is brilliant. It is excellently plotted and superbly entertaining: in this short a page turner of first order. I am looking forward to the next book by Nick Drake!!



- So, what are you waiting for??? Get reading !!!

New Blog Settings

Hi! It seems we can restrict access to this Blog to selected readers only .. and so I have chosen us ten,...perhaps this will help you gain confidence to read and contribute ... i hope so! :)

New Book Shop to Open in Lausanne

Lausanne English bookworms to get new store!

A new English language bookshop with space for some four thousand titles will open in Lausanne on October 2008. “Books Books Books” aims to rival the Payot bookstore by offering slightly cheaper books. It will also organise regular events such as book clubs, and aims to emulate the cosy ambiance created by some existing shops in the United and States and Britain.Books Books Books will be on the fourth floor of the Globus department store on Rue de Mercerie, with a surface area of just under 100 square metres.
Its books will comprise 3000 fiction titles and 1000 non-fiction and aims the Anglophone expat community in the Lausanne area, Matthew Wake, the shop's founder told Swisster. Wake, a self-confessed book lover, has a background in marketing and decided to open a shop based on his market research in Lausanne. “Most people I surveyed said that the choice is limited here and the books pricey. In this area the market is one of highly-educated people doing professional jobs, so for a bookseller it’s a dream market,” he told Swisster.
“We will have four times more English titles than Payot,” he said. Wake aims to offer his books at lower prices than Payot, helped by the fact that his shop not tied to a single supplier. There will also be offers such ‘three for the price of two’, which could not always be found in Switzerland. The British shop owner is under no illusions that he is hard put to compete qith Internet booksellers such as Amazon.

To emulate large stores such as Barnes & Noble in the United States and Waterstones in Britain, and their very relaxed atmosphere, Wake said people were welcome to buy a coffee at the café next door and come and read their books.

In addition, Books Books Books will organise a series of activities in the shop - “something you never see at Amazon” - such as readers’ groups – for kids and adults – including a cocktail event on most Fridays with a drink offered that that refers to a novel. For example a vodka-Martini could be on offer in reference to a James Bond novel, but please serve it shaken – not stirred. mmmm!

December Reading Choices

Dear all,

Just a quick note to say it was wonderful to see you all last Tuesday – it was an evening packed with activity and fun, as usual!

Thank you Sam for the lovely nibbles and the beautiful creations of yours – they are indeed exclusive.

As a reminder, here are the options put forth by Yo's for the month of December.

1.The portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2.Midwives by Chris Bohjalion
3.Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

The majority voted for “The portrait of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde.

· The next meeting will be in November 4th in Jess house and we will discuss “The book of the people” by Geraldine Brooks;

· The meeting in December will be on the 9th in Yo’s house to discuss “The portrait of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

See you then, me!

November's Choices

We are back! the new season has started and we have already chosen the book we will be reading for November. The choices were:

• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan


• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney


• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

and the almost unanimous vote went to:

• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (paperback is available to pre-order from Amazon)

- Next meeting will be on the October 7th. See you then!

Into the Future

Hello! & Welcome to the 756 Book Club blog!

After 5 years of reading books, exchanging emails and updating Word tables, we decided to move with the times and create our own Blog... The idea is to have an address, in the internet, where you can come & check what happened during the last Book Blub meeting and what books are schedules for the months ahead. Just as a starter, perhaps we could list here all the books we have read for the past 5 years..if I find out how to do it! ...

For your information, blog entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Also, in this blog, I entered you as an AUTHOR, which allows you add comments to any existing postings as well as to create new postings. - please let me know if this works?! I hope you have fun!

Book Selections for 2006

Read in 2006

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ~John Berendt
Hunting Unicorns ~ Bella Pollen
The Hours of the Night ~ Sue Gee
The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
The Shadow of the Wind~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Kitchen Confidential~ Anthony Bourdain
Middlesex ~Jeffrey Eugenides
'The Sixth Lamentation'~William Broderick
The Bookseller of Kabul ~ A. Seierstad
See Jane Run - Joy Fielding

Book Selections for 2005

Read in 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha ~ Arthur Golden
Our Street ~ Gilda O'Neill
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon
After You'd Gone ~Maggie O'Farrell
Interpreter of Maladies ~Jhumpa Lahiri
The Serpent and the Moon ~
The Time Traveller’s Wife ~ A. Niffeneger
The Physician ~ Noah Gordon
Little Hannah this is God? (to check!)

Book Selections for 2007

Read in 2007:

The Grass Harp ~ T. Capote
May contain nuts ~ John O Farrell
Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte
The lost painting ~ Jonathan Harr
A Thousand Days in Venice ~ M. de Blasi
Suite Francaise ~ Irene Nemirovsky
Half of a Yellow Sun ~ C. Ngozi Adichie
Life of Pi ~Yann Martel
The Savage Garden ~Mark Mills
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell

Book Club Trip 2008 - Lisbon

This is us after a deep concentrated discussion of The Night Train to Lisbon.

But we took the airplane because we were looking forward to the deep

intellectual discussions. Oh! did I mention it was sunny and warm?

Book Club Trip 2007 - Nice

This is us in the middle of the
discussion of the book
"A Thousand Days in Venice"
by M. de Blasi.

Unfortunately, we could not all make it to as far as Venice...
and so we decided to go to Nice instead.

Not all was lost - the sun shone brighter than ever...just for us!