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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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  • Currently re reading Wuthering Heights - read it for AS English literature and decided to re read it

  • in reply to pinkchocoholic
    pinkchocoholic said:
    Currently re reading Wuthering Heights - read it for AS English literature and decided to re read it

    I hope you enjoy it.

    I think it's quite a shocker ... Healthcliff really isn't a very nice man and it really isn't a 'romance' but something much darker.

    What imaginations those sisters had (and Branwell).

    I studied it at school too and re-read it a couple of times since.

    I have also made a 'pilgrimage' to Haworth, having enjoyed Emily and Charlotte's writing.

    I used to be an avid fan of Emily's poetry too.

  • in reply to B

    I love this poem by Branwell, which is particularly poignant considering his early demise:

    'So seize we the present 

    and gather its flowers

    for mournful or pleasant

    'tis all that is ours

    whilst daylight we're wasting

    the evening is hasting

    and night follows fast on the vanishing hours...'

    I can't find that online to confirm that I've remembered it correctly.

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  • in reply to B

    I love this poem by Branwell, which is particularly poignant considering his early demise:

    'So seize we the present 

    and gather its flowers

    for mournful or pleasant

    'tis all that is ours

    whilst daylight we're wasting

    the evening is hasting

    and night follows fast on the vanishing hours...'

    I can't find that online to confirm that I've remembered it correctly.

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