Book discussion group
The Objective of the Women's Club is to "...provide activities that promote friendship and give opportunities for contact between all women connected with Imperial College..."
The Book Discussion Group is an informal group of Women's Club members who meet approximately every 6 weeks to read and discuss a particular book, chosen in rotation by regular attendees. Occasionally, authors and other speakers from the publishing world join the group for informal talks about their work.
In the spirit of the Club, the Group welcomes comments and contributions from all attendees. All points of view are respected and encouraged, to facilitate a constructive and enjoyable occasion for all those attending.
Notices regarding the next book for discussion, with the date and time of the meeting, are circulated in advance to all Women's Club members by the Book Discussion Group convener, Gay Carr.
Please bring a packed lunch.
Forthcoming Meetings
The next meeting of the Book Discussion Group will be held on Tuesday 21 February 2012, in Room 503, level 5 of the Electrical Engineering Building, between 12:30 - 14:00. There is a coffee machine available at 50p per cup, but please bring your own sandwiches and drinks.
For any queries, please email gaycarr@waitrose.com
The book to be discussed is
There may also be time for some poems to be read and so if you have one you think we would enjoy hearing, please bring it with you.
Some of the books most recently read by the Book Discussion Group are noted below:
The Hare with Amber Eyes By Edmund de Waal
"...as full of beauty and whimsy as a netsuke from the hands of a master carver"...
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Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre...Read More >>>
A Christmas carol - Charles Dickens
After reading "Christmas Carol", the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' Read more >>>
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
A remarkable and moving book… an important work of immersive non-fiction...Read More >>>
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. ...
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Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
This is Elizabeth Gaskell at her best, and Shirley Foster's edition is both sagacious and formally accurate.
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The Flight of the Maidens - Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam has captured the burgeoning renaissance of post-war Britain in her novel The Flight of the Maidens Read More >>>
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, shy and alienated from society. His despair and desire for death draw him into a dark, enchanted underworld...Read more >>>
Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
Though the setting is the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, this gripping novel transcends time and place... Read More > >>
Scoop - Evelyne Waugh
This is an incredibly funny novel, a must read for anybody interested in the politics of the world during the 30's...
Read more >> >
The Book Discussion Group aims to read a wide variety of books, to continually spark new interests and to stimulate lively discussions. Poems complementary to the book are also regularly selected - do bring any appropriate ones along to the meeting for discussion.




