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A book club - with a difference.

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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.

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  • I finished the East End Library Girls series by Patricia McBride - set in World War Two and follows three girls who work at the same library, following their stories through the war. I would recommend giving at least the first book a go if you like history or just like taking a ride through someone else's life.

    The order of the books are:

    1. The Library Girls of the East End
    2. Hard Times for the East End Library Girls
    3. A Christmas Gift for the East End Library Girls
    4. Better Tomorrow for the East End Library Girls
    5. Wedding Bells for the East End Library Girls
  • in reply to pinkchocoholic

    This reminds me to give libraries in general a shout-out. After years of dormancy in using public libraries (though I work in an academic one), I recently stepped back through the doors to find the dependably soothing and irreplacebly generous atmosphere exactly as I'd always found it from childhood up to and including he last time I'd been there. Also, as great way to affordably try and up one's reading quotient. For someone who loves books, I don't get to or through them fast enough, and a ticking clock on a loan helps a little with discipline there! 

  • in reply to Shardovan
    Shardovan said:
    dependably soothing and irreplacebly generous atmosphere exactly as I'd always found it from childhood up to and including he last time I'd been there. Also, as great way to affordably try and up one's reading quotient. For someone who loves books,

    Yes, a wonderful time-served service which ought to be widely recognised and better funded. I spent a great deal of time in libraries as a child, which staved off loneliness and introduced me to many subjects I would otherwise never have heard about, let alone enjoyed - like mythology and poetry.

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  • in reply to Shardovan
    Shardovan said:
    dependably soothing and irreplacebly generous atmosphere exactly as I'd always found it from childhood up to and including he last time I'd been there. Also, as great way to affordably try and up one's reading quotient. For someone who loves books,

    Yes, a wonderful time-served service which ought to be widely recognised and better funded. I spent a great deal of time in libraries as a child, which staved off loneliness and introduced me to many subjects I would otherwise never have heard about, let alone enjoyed - like mythology and poetry.

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