Bloggers’ Book Club update
Our newly formed Bloggers’ Book Club is going from strength to strength even if we haven’t yet posted our first reviews.
I’m delighted there is such interest. We have; Marian, Treasa, Cathy, Marie, Lorna, Val, Jenn, Edie, Catherine and yours truly.
Kirsty and Steph may not do every book but would still like to be members.
Una is going to start blogging soon and would like to join the book club. While she’s waiting to get her Wordpress machine cranked up, she’s welcome to guest post here. She gets an underline when her blog is firing on all cylinders 
when I can put in a link.
The first book chosen is ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, by Khaled Hosseini. ‘Brooklyn’ by Colm Toibin is the book we’ve decided to go with for April and ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum Mc Cann for May. That’s as far as we have gone.
Our first posting will be at noon on Easter Sunday. I bet we’ll hear trumpets playing, as the clock strikes midday and lots of publish buttons are hit. Thereafter without trumpets or drums, hey, there’s a recession on, we’ll aim to post at midday on the first Sunday of the month.
We’re going to leave it up to everyone as to how they approach it, write a review or work from a list of questions posed for book clubs to promote discussion. Here is the Penguin list for ‘A thousand Splendid Suns’. You have to scroll down a little to come to the questions.
Whichever way I think we should just try it and see how it evolves. I’m as new to this as the next! All a bit of fun trying.
Because I wont be able to afford the legal fees if the biggest broadcasting network in the world come after me, I’ll use certain abbreviations sparingly. It wouldn’t do if Google threw up first in the search results – a humble little book club, when one entered a certain three letters The big boys (and I hope girls) at Broadcasting House mightn’t be too happy.
Lá Fheile Phádraig Shona daoibh go léir and sure have a biscuit with your cuppa while you’re reading Who says at an online book club, you don’t get offered food, watch this space, it’ll be the glass of wine next!
PS Update to this post. More people are still welcome to join the Bloggers’ Book Club!
PPS Jenny has just joined
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Best of luck with the book club, I love reading but I know that I just don’t have the time to give to reading another book at the moment, I’ve a lot on at the moment.
Happy St Patrick’s Day to you today!
regards
liz
I am thrilled to be part of the club Lily et al. Loving the Paddy’s Day cookies there..very creative. This is my first Paddy’s Day outside of Dublin, so looking forward to watching the Killaloe parade this afternoon. So far we have grey skies and wind here, but hoping for a bit of sunshine later, with a bit of luck. Enjoy your day!
Looking forward to getting ’stuck in’ and while I do think it is best to have numbers at about a dozen for a book club which meets in person, I am thinking the more the merrier for our online one so the feedback will be interesting. I’m also really looking forward to reading everyone else’s reviews.
Happy Saint Patrick’s day! I’m thrilled to be part of the book club. I picked up my book at the library and can’t wait to start reading this weekend. Love the cookies!
Hey that sounds good Lily and I confess to having an easy start as I have already read the first two books and now have an excuse to read the Colm McCann one! I even commented on the Irish Times book club blog (BCB?!? – how about a re-jig of the original acronym to avoid recrimination later?) and had a bit of that comment in the Saturday IT weekend supplement about “Brooklyn”. So well done and perhaps more members will join up if the word gets round – is it ok to invite like-minded reader bloggers? Don’t want to muscle in but there are a few who might like it. Let me know anyway. Hope you enjoyed yesterday. I feel a blog post on my green-day coming on!
Catherine
Liz, thank you. I understand how busy you are.
Marie, thanks. Read your post on the Killaloe parade
Glad for everyone that the weather held up for the day. Can I take you up on your offer to let people know of the book club through your blog.
Lorna, Your comment prompted me to write a PS to the blog post to say just that – New members are still welcome to join, thanks
Edie, Love the international feel to the book club. Your heading up the American side
Enjoy reading.
Catherine, Absolutely, please invite away, more people would be good. I’m glad we have a number to at least get it off the ground.
Same goes for everyone, please feel free to invite others to join
I’m really enjoying the first book and delighted to be part of the book club (even though I haven’t a clue about book clubs)!
Wahoo I’m excited for this now
Can I suggest a book for June? 1984? Just to throw it into the mix, you probably don’t want to pick yet – that’s a little far ahead in fairness! x
Val, I have never been a member of one, but I think it should be very interesting and fun doing it through blogging. Glad you are enjoying the book.
Jenn, I’m delighted you suggested that book as I started it (on son’s prompting) a while back but never finished it. I will be glad to go back and read it fully. We now have books for the next 3 months, March, April and May so we can throw it into the mix when choosing beyond that.
Hi Lily. I read about the book club on Lorna’s blog, and kindof invited myself along if you don’t mind. I’ve been looking for a bookclub for a while and this sounds great. I won’t have time to read the first book though, as I’m heading over to England for a week on Friday. But I’ll be interested to read your reviews, and have put it on my TO READ list. Looking forward to getting to know you all. Jenny x
Jenny, welcome to the blog. We’d be delighted to have you in the book club. Join in as soon as you are ready. Enjoy your trip to England. I’ve just updated the post to include you
Author Colum McCann in interview with RTÉ’s John Kelly – County Library, Tallaght – Thursday April 22nd at 11am – booking at 4620073. If you can’t make it, why not tweet or email a question for Colum and tune into the Podcast later to see if your question featured. Questions welcomed from anywhere in the world! READISCOVER 2010. More info at http://bit.ly/ColumMcCann – Please Share!
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I just saw this on Val’s blog now – what a great idea! Is there room for another one? This would be a great incentive for me to get reading more than I do at the moment.
Susan, delighted that you’d like to join. There’s plenty of room. ‘Brooklyn’ by Colm Toibin is the book we’ve decided to go with for April and ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum Mc Cann for May. That’s as far as we have gone.