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Book Club: Cold Comfort Farm. Thursday 23rd September
Our next meeting will be at 8pm on 23rd September and we are planning a return to the Old Dairy. This month's choice is 'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons which has been variously descibed as a 20th century classic, hilarious, witty, charming and engaging. Here is an (abridged) review from Google Books/ Amazon but hey, why not read it for yourself and then come along and discuss why you loved or hated it.
'Flora Poste leaves London and goes to stay with her gloriously eccentric relatives, who live in ramshackle "Cold Comfort Farm", where they wash the dishes with twigs, and have cows named Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless. Headed by Flora's Aunt Ada Doom (who has not been right in the head since she "saw something nasty happen in the woodshed" nearly seventy years ago), they are a motley and strange crew indeed. What follows is Flora's attempt to 'civilize' the inhabitants of the farm and organise their lives in a series of entertaining events.'
On another thread there are suggestions for future Book Club choices, it would be splendid to hear what people have to say about these. We try to choose things that will attract a mixed bunch of people and provoke lively discussion so all recommendations and suggestions are most welcome.
Andy, would you be so kind as to make this the new 'sticky' thread please?
'Flora Poste leaves London and goes to stay with her gloriously eccentric relatives, who live in ramshackle "Cold Comfort Farm", where they wash the dishes with twigs, and have cows named Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless. Headed by Flora's Aunt Ada Doom (who has not been right in the head since she "saw something nasty happen in the woodshed" nearly seventy years ago), they are a motley and strange crew indeed. What follows is Flora's attempt to 'civilize' the inhabitants of the farm and organise their lives in a series of entertaining events.'
On another thread there are suggestions for future Book Club choices, it would be splendid to hear what people have to say about these. We try to choose things that will attract a mixed bunch of people and provoke lively discussion so all recommendations and suggestions are most welcome.
Andy, would you be so kind as to make this the new 'sticky' thread please?
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Following on from Cold Comfort Farm I suggested Daphne Du Maurier for the October meeting.
I will suggest 'The Birds and Other Stories' as my first choice, however, if people would prefer a novel rather than short stories we could go for 'The Scapegoat', a novel set in the 20th century or 'Frenchman's Creek' a historical drama with pirates and heaving bosoms galore!
Will add these suggestions to the other thread too.
Great to see everyone last week.
There were a few suggestions at the more literary end of the spectrum. It would be good to do a mixture of books but I personally draw the line at anything with flowing gold writing on a pastel cover. I have no objections to pirates and as a curvaceous lady I certainly can't object to heaving bosoms.
Of course, all and any members of SG.org that would like to join in are welcome.
Just come to the Dairy on the right day and you'll find us - we generally have the books quite conspicuously on the table so that we can find each other easily.
I won't have a clue who to look for, so make sure those books are visible!
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Oh! I have just realised that I entered them under a different bookclub heading (beginning "sticky" - I don't know what that means here), but when I tried to delete them I got a red message saying I had to add a "value" to the edit. What does that mean?? Please help!