Forest Hill Reading Group News
With the summer holidays upon us, we were few in number at the latest Forest Hill Reading Group meeting. This didn’t impact on the conversation however and up for discussion was Chicago by Alaa Al...
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Even in its incomplete form, Suite Française is one of those rare books that demands to be read. This was to be a novel written in five sections, dealing with France under German occupation. Irene...
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The Forest Hill reading group has produced a book list for first half of 2011: January – The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver February – Collected Poems by T.S.Eliot March – The Help by Kathryn Stockett...
View ArticleWorld Book Night Party
To celebrate World Book Night 2011, Forest Hill library will taking part in the largest book give-away ever attempted. This dynamic and unprecedented initiative to celebrate adult books and reading...
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March’s FHRG discussed Charlie Connelly’s travel log Attention All Shipping where the author sets off to explore the furthest reaches of the Radio 4 shipping forecast. There remains a great charm and...
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It was a ‘thumbs up’ all round for March’s chosen book, Kathryn Stockett’s first novel, The Help. Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 the novel is narrated by three women: Aibileen and Minny are both...
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Here’s a nice exchange between a Maggie Smith, a member of the FHRG, and Charlie Connelly, author of Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast, which was discussed by the group in...
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This month we read Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters, a biography of Stuart Shorter who was a homeless man and advocate. In 1998, following a five-year jail sentence for armed robbery,...
View ArticleCelebrate National Reading Group Day
Share your love of reading with others on Sunday 26 June at Manor House Library. Authors, Claire Seeber and Chrissie Gittins, will be helping Lewisham celebrate National Reading Group Day from...
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This month the group read the 2008 Booker prize winner, The White Tiger by Aravid Adiga. Overall the group “really enjoyed this book” , despite “finding a lot of sadness in it.” The story telling was...
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