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This the place to come for our January Bookclub discussion and to chat to our esteemed author Tim Dowling, author of The Giles Wareing Haters Club.
If you can't make it on Thursday then do post a question for Tim here and we'll make sure he gets to it. And if you are coming on Thursday but want to post an advance question then feel free - we'll email them to Tim and will kick off with the answers when he comes on.
Hope everyone can make it, see you Thursday...
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JANUARY BOOK OF THE MONTH - discussion night and author chat will take place here Thursday 31st Jan from 8pm |
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i liek it
and read it in a day and a half
totally missed the cheriton gag
and read it in a day and a half
totally missed the cheriton gag
Oh it's not really that I don't like it Tilly, it's just a bit 'schooly' isn't it, that's all. Was looking for the kick up the jacksy I needed to make me read Briadeshead, as I've read most of his other stuff, and I thought that would probably be quite different.
Anyhoo, yes, I'll come back <sigh>, especially if you can persuade Harper Lee to come too. I would be seriously impressed by your pulling power
.
Anyhoo, yes, I'll come back <sigh>, especially if you can persuade Harper Lee to come too. I would be seriously impressed by your pulling power
.Hang on...I didn't realise Harper Lee is actually alive (check out a brilliant website called deadoralive). But she is 81. And famously publicity shy. So not sure if we'll get an author chat but I'll give it a shot.
A quick message here to say To Kill a Mockingbird has won February's vote (sorry, midnight express - will you come on anyway and tell us how much you don't like it? All grist for mill etc)
Chocoholic, are Tuesday's better? We're moving discussion night back to Tuesday, so fingers crossed you can make it (this month it'll be Tuesday FEb 26th, 8-10pm). No author chat, obviously.
Chocoholic, are Tuesday's better? We're moving discussion night back to Tuesday, so fingers crossed you can make it (this month it'll be Tuesday FEb 26th, 8-10pm). No author chat, obviously.
Oh no, missed it again. 
Now this is getting a bit silly but I am getting to read some books I wouldn't have so I guess something good is coming out of it even though I miss the chats every month.
I really must try harder to make them.
Now this is getting a bit silly but I am getting to read some books I wouldn't have so I guess something good is coming out of it even though I miss the chats every month.
I really must try harder to make them.
He was indeed.
Do you thin he will check back here to see what we are saying?
I must say I'm not a fan of the new list. I have either read, or am not interested in them , so thats a shame.
I don't see why 'classics' have to be 'at least 40 years old' or ones we have all heard of before.
Do you thin he will check back here to see what we are saying?
I must say I'm not a fan of the new list. I have either read, or am not interested in them , so thats a shame.
I don't see why 'classics' have to be 'at least 40 years old' or ones we have all heard of before.
I was only joking squonk, but I thought he was a good sport too.
Right I'm off to recruit some people to vote for anything except to Kill a Flamin Mockingbird.
Right I'm off to recruit some people to vote for anything except to Kill a Flamin Mockingbird.
I thought he seemed okay, I think he answered everyone's questions, and he seemed like a good sport.
Don't feel like setting up the Tim Dowling Haters Club just yet
Don't feel like setting up the Tim Dowling Haters Club just yet
<twiddles thumbs, whistles a bit>.
So everyone, what did we think of him then?
So everyone, what did we think of him then?
thanks for talking to us, Tim.
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