DANGER - READING GROUPS

WHEN BOOK CLUBS GO BAD!

Greetings, Blog-followers.

Well now…According to a recent article in the Daily Mail - (hence its veracity is beyond all doubt, surely) – some Reading Groups are seething hotbeds of rage, frustration and thwarted ambition…


“For many” the article begins “book clubs are the perfect way to relax with like-minded individuals and discuss that best-selling novel…”


However, it warns - (for life is never rosy, apparently, for readers of this particular newspaper) - that for reading group members, dangers lurk just around the corner and in between the covers, and it urges those involved to take a few, essential precautions:


DON’T drink – discussions affected by that light, crisp chardonnay may just spill over into red-blooded bile…


DON’T have `over-opinionated` readers in the group – for if you do, then sweetness and harmony can never ensue…


DON’T CHEAT and just watch the film instead – “the book club that drifts away from its subject towards discussing the merits of Sean Bean is destined for failure”…


And, above all – DON’T try reading anything written before 1900, or your book club will surely shrivel up and die…Middlemarch, so they say, is the worst offender, and – apparently – after reading George Eliot, even some of the most respectable of literary soirees have ended up with overturned chairs, blood on the carpets, and bite marks everywhere!


Nasty. Very.


Well, luckily, dear readers – as you’d come to expect from your good old Library Service – help is at hand. Here!


We’ve got a splendid range of reading groups here, close to home and within our midst: no booze-sodden rage, no cheating, no show-offs, not a whiff of Sean Bean, and – thus far – no Middlemarch riots…
Just good fun, good company, good discussions, and good books.


(And – you never know - maybe you'll get a nice xxx xx xxx xxx x xxxxxxx too)…


Enjoy (responsibly, of course)…






TTFN