It’s fair to say most of us expected more from British Crime & Thriller Book of the Year for 2019. Some enjoyed the book, others gritted their teeth and persevered to the end, one skipped a chunk in the middle, Read More …
Category: Reading group
Simply swept along by the Underground Railroad
What can we say apart from Wow! What a book! We are still buzzing from our last Wellbeing Reading Group virtual discussion. So much to say about this powerful novel we could have easily trebled our 30 minute slot. Thank Read More …
Making time for time travel
Latest review from our Virtual Wellbeing Reading Group Well they say reading broadens the mind but with The Time Machine we were flung further than any of us had every travelled before into the future, first to the year 802,701, Read More …
The Underwhelming Gatsby…
Instead of the Great American novel we expected from our second virtual reading group choice The Great Gatsby we were all left feeling rather underwhelmed and pondering why it ever became a classic. We expected to be able to escape Read More …
Going virtual and a date for your diary
Well this novel virus is bringing many changes to our working and personal lives, so it was time for yet another new experience with our GEH Wellbeing Reading Group going virtual. Our group has been growing steadily and meeting monthly Read More …
Buzzing about books
There’s definitely a buzz about books at GEH at the moment with our reading group shadowing the joint Booker Prize winner Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. We also invited Warwickshire public library colleagues to the hospital during Libraries Week to Read More …
Reading group- Booker Prize excitement!
The library’s Well-being Reading Group has been going strong since March this year, and were recently chosen to be one of the select few groups nationally to shadow the Booker Prize. We received copies of Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, Read More …