So what did we all think about The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle? Despite being a best seller and winner of the Costa First Novel Award in 2018 most of us felt this clever novel didn’t quite keep us guessing until Read More …
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At Night All Blood is Black – a winner with the GEH Wellbeing Reading Group?
This month our reading group was lucky enough to be chosen by the Reading Agency to read David Diop’s 2021 International Booker Prize winning book At Night All Blood is Black, and whew, what a read it was! A short, Read More …
Staycation in style with Warwickshire Libraries
We’re having a break from our monthly Twitter #HealthChat until October but have invited our Warwickshire colleague Emily to write a post about all what’s available at your local public library. We are amazed at all the activities they provide Read More …
Going international
International travel continues to be difficult but fortunately according to the writer Mason Cooley “reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are”. So we are really excited to be reading the winner of the Read More …
eMagazines from Warwickshire Libraries
eMagazine service from Warwickshire libraries In our recent Library Survey we were asked for Time Out/Leisure magazines for our Wellbeing Corner. Whilst we’ve a well used Time Out book collection (all donations thank you 😀 ) we are not able to Read More …
Living with dementia, Somebody I used to know
This month our Wellbeing Reading Group was privileged to host Wendy Mitchell the author of our latest read Somebody I Used to Know. Wendy wrote her memoir of being diagnosed and living with dementia alongside her co-author Anna Wharton, and Read More …
Strike sure or were we about The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing?
Well a bit more of a mixed kitbag for this book than our recent reads, perhaps due to not all of us managing to finish the book before our virtual discussion. At 504 pages it’s a lengthy book and it Read More …
Fascinated with The Familiars
It’s been a busy month so just a brief summary of our thoughts this time. Everyone enjoyed reading The Familiars, a fictional tale based at the time of the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612. The book is well researched and Read More …
This blog may put you to sleep (but it’s meant to do that!)
Originally published on Warwickshire Public Libraries’ blog at https://librariesblog.warwickshire.gov.uk/2021/03/30/this-blog-may-put-you-to-sleep-but-its-meant-to-do-that/ March is a month when our thoughts often turn to Spring, to lighter mornings and the joyous feeling of longer days. The darker nights of Winter begin to recede and we Read More …
The comfort of reading for pleasure
Continuing to embrace the comfort of reading our GEH Wellbeing Reading Group met virtually again last Thursday (coincidently World Book Day 🙂 ) to share our thoughts about our February book, The Comfort of Others by Kay Langdale. February is Read More …