Maida Vale Library Reading Groups
Maida Vale library helps organise three different reading groups:
A book reading group, a play reading group and the Home Library Service's reading group (this group's membership is restricted). To find out more please read on...
Welcome to everyone interested in books!
Do you enjoy talking about books with other people? If so, why not come along to Maida Vale Library's Reading Group?
We meet once a month, from 5.15 - 6.45pm on Thursdays. A friendly welcome is extended to all newcomers so please just come along.
Our upcoming discussions
| Date & time | Title & author of book being discussed |
|---|---|
| 2 September 2010 | Philippa Gregory's The other queen |
| 30 September 2010 | David Mitchell's Black Swan Green |
Previously read books are listed below
Library copies can be requested free of charge by group members.
Play reading group
This is a new group which meets monthly. Play-reading groups are a good way to get your feet wet if you have always wanted to act but have been too shy or have not had the opportunity.
If you would like to come along, read a character or just listen please book a place by visiting, phoning or emailing Maida Vale Library.
Next discussion
Play Reading Group not meeting in September, but will start back on
Monday 4th October
Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti
Previously read
Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller
Session led by Robin Lansman, Amateur Director
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
Session led by Robin Lansman, Amateur Director
Please book early to avoid disappointment. You can also view Robin Lansman in action across the river at the Network theatre in Waterloo in Outward bound by Sutton Vane.
Home Library Service reading group
This group is for users of the Home Library Service who are being brought to Maida Vale Library by minibus every Wednesday from 10.30am to 12noon where they meet in the quiet room.It is run by Paul Higgins from the reader organisation. Currently the group is only funded until early Wednesday 25th August. The groups of up to 10 people are read aloud to by a trained facilitator. The group then has an opportunity to share their thoughts about what has been read (either a book, short story or poem) and what it means to them.
Opprtunities to join the group
Depending on demand there may also be an opportunity to offer a few places to people who arent borrowers from the Home Library Service.
Find out more
You can find out more about reading groups on The Reader Organisation's website.
Books discussed in previous meetings by the main reading group
| Date | Book details |
|---|---|
| July 2010 | Paul Torday's Salmon fishing in the Yemen (read about it on Books & the City) |
| June 2010 | Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach |
| April 2010 | Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 |
| March 2010 | Stieg Larsson's The girl with the dragon tattoo |
| February 2010 | Aravind Adiga's The white tiger |
| January 2010 | Robert Harris's The ghost |
| December 2009 | Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A vindication of the rights of woman' |
| November 2009 | Joseph O’Connor’s 'Redemption Falls' |
| October 2009 | |
| September 2009 | |
| August 2009 | |
| July 2009 | |
| June 2009 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World |
| May 2009 | |
| April 2009 | Kate Mosse's Sepulchre |
| March 2009 | March's book was Lisa See's Peony in love |
| February 2009 |
February's book was Kathy Reichs's Bare bones |
| January 2009 |
January's book was Peter Robinson's Not safe after dark |
| December 2008 |
December's book was Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
| October 2008 |
October's book was Lee Jackson's A most dangerous woman |
| August 2008 | Our discussion in August focused on the National Year of Reading's monthly theme of "Read the Game", so we will be reading Nick Hornby's definitive football memoir "Fever pitch". |
| July 2008 |
Our discussion in July focused on the National Year of Reading's monthly theme of "Rhythm and Rhyme", so it was poetry on the menu. Group members shared some of their favourite poems, including Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Easter", William Blake's "London" and Philip Larkin's "The Whitsun Weddings". |
| June 2008 | Our discussion in June focused on the National Year of Reading's monthly theme of "Reading Escapes". We talked about books or authors we regularly escape to - children's or adult books and authors we find ourselves returning to as a kind of "literary bolthole" when we just want to indulge ourselves. The group's favourites included Agatha Christie, Maeve Binchy and the "Just William" books. |
| May 2008 | Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| April 2008 |
Jodi Picoult's The Pact |
| March 2008 | Marion Molteno's If you can walk, you can dance |
| February 2008 |
Tim Winton's Breath |
| January 2008 | Richard Benson's The farm |
| November 2007 | Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty |
| October 2007 | Isabel Allende's City of the beasts |
| September 2007 | Steven Levitt's Freakonomics |
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