• Replies 101 replies
  • Subscribers 30 subscribers
  • Views 3856 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

A book club - with a difference.

Lotus

Someone asked today if there is a book club, so I thought I'd try starting one. Not the usual type of club where everyone reads the same book - I thought we could write a synopsis of a book we've recently read, to give each other ideas for new books to read.

I have a Kindle subscription, so all of mine will be available on there for people who also subscribe.

Parents

  • Im now reading Vita Sackville-West’s ALL PASSION SPENT. It is about an elderly aristocratic lady who confounds her family after her husband of high rank in late colonial times dies. She refuses all their offers if “help”, gives away her jewels, refuses to live in luxury and instead goes to a rented house in Highgate, telling her family not to visit her. 

    At its core it is a positive alternative to the negative and depressing vision of aging which I for one had been experiencing. Im about ¾ through, the prose is of the highest quality, clearly printed in this the first edition, and is helping me to see hope for my remaining years as I had been allowing myself to sink into despondency. Its only a small part of turning my life around but for its very definitely the right book at the right time. 


    Vita S-W is famous as Virginia Woolf’s friend and lover, but she was a great writer in her own right, poetry and novels, and latterly a very gifted gardener. Her house at Sissinghurst in Kent is I think a National Trust property where you can learn all about her and her husband plus walk in her incredible gardens  

    Alice

Reply

  • Im now reading Vita Sackville-West’s ALL PASSION SPENT. It is about an elderly aristocratic lady who confounds her family after her husband of high rank in late colonial times dies. She refuses all their offers if “help”, gives away her jewels, refuses to live in luxury and instead goes to a rented house in Highgate, telling her family not to visit her. 

    At its core it is a positive alternative to the negative and depressing vision of aging which I for one had been experiencing. Im about ¾ through, the prose is of the highest quality, clearly printed in this the first edition, and is helping me to see hope for my remaining years as I had been allowing myself to sink into despondency. Its only a small part of turning my life around but for its very definitely the right book at the right time. 


    Vita S-W is famous as Virginia Woolf’s friend and lover, but she was a great writer in her own right, poetry and novels, and latterly a very gifted gardener. Her house at Sissinghurst in Kent is I think a National Trust property where you can learn all about her and her husband plus walk in her incredible gardens  

    Alice

Children
No Data