[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-camberwell-book-club-2004-2013":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"First I have to show you this brilliant knitted Beegu, based on the character in the fab book by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alexisdeacon.co.uk\">Alexis Deacon\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/KnittedBeegu_by_AliceBrewer_zpsc19edd3a-a69e41fb92.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's knitted by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.beanpi.co.uk/\">Alice Brewer\u003C/a>, and if you don't know \u003Ci>Beegu\u003C/i>, there's a nice \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjOdj9yuYaw\">video interpretation by Matt Glover\u003C/a>. Here's Alice showing off her Beegu in our book club meeting. Her daughter Juniper is rather obsessed and dressed up as Beegu for World Book Day.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/book_club_beegu_zps7fab28cf-c475641007.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's our book club. A happy scene, but also sad because it was our last meeting of book club, after meeting for nine years and reading lots of books together. People were busy, had moved away and it was getting harder and harder to get a decent-sized group. But almost everyone (who hadn't moved to New Zealand or gone off to school elsewhere) rallied for the last meeting.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/book_club_group_zps85090425-0ac752f334.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Franklyn Johnson, Maureen Prince, Heather Kilgour, Fiona Wells, Emma Edwards, Alice Brewer, Dan Brewer, Nicole Young, Stuart Pyle, Nick Prince, Anneli, Juniper and Myla (named after the author of one of the books we read)\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut-->\\r\nHere's our lovely host, \u003Cb>Fiona Wells\u003C/b>, who looked after us so well and baked amazing cakes. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/book_club_fiona_cake_zps1068c3b4-0dd6e801a2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI think we had a pretty good model for book club. We took turns choosing the book; when it was one person's turn, they'd pick three books, and whoever was at the meeting would vote for one of the three books to read. Sometimes we'd play \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Libris_%28game%29\">Ex Libris\u003C/a>, which is this great game where you have to make up a beginning or ending for a famous book and try to trick everyone into thinking it's the real one. (I once posted some \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/454517.html\">examples here\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/book_club_ex_libris_zps4e11cb88-60c029c581.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nFor the last meeting, we didn't discuss a new book, but went back through the list of books we read, reminisced about them and decided on which ones were our favourites and which were the hilarious stinkers. I'll attach the list of books here, partly just to remember them myself. I'm going to miss book club. It was a great way of seeing these friends and I hope we all stay in touch.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/book_club_list_zps670ec0d4-f6259bebc9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nCamberwell Book Club 2004 - 2013, starting from our most recently read books:\\r\n\\r\nCutting For Stone - Abraham Verghese\\r\nMaster and Commander - Patrick O'Brian\\r\nThe Carhullan Army - Sarah Hall\\r\nAnna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy\\r\nThe Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins\\r\nAll Fall Down - Sally Nicholls\\r\nPigeon English - Stephen Kelman\\r\nHawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd\\r\nCannery Row - John Steinbeck\\r\nThe Help - Kathryn Stockett\\r\nInto the Storm - Taylor Anderson\\r\nRandom Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann\\r\nVainglory - Geraldine McCaughrean\\r\nAlone in Berlin - Hans Falada\\r\nThe End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas\\r\nThe Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney\\r\nDisgrace - J.M.Coetze\\r\nHalf of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\\r\nThe Road - Cormac McCarthy\\r\nBee Season - Myla Goldberg\\r\nThe Worst Date Ever - Jane Bussmann\\r\nTommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven - Jane Bailey\\r\nSmall Island - Andrea Levy\\r\nEmpress Orchid - Anchee Min\\r\nThe Road Home - Rose Tremain\\r\nBoy A - Jonathan Tregill\\r\nTo Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis\\r\nTuesday's War - David Fiddimore\\r\nThe Ballad of Peckham Rye - Muriel Spark\\r\nMidnight's Children - Salman Rushdie\\r\nThe Pure in Heart - Susan Hill\\r\nThe Bookseller of Kabul - Åsne Seierstad\\r\nSkellig - David Almond\\r\nThe Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld\\r\nThe Secret River - Kate Grenville\\r\nUncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe\\r\nAdrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Sue Townsend\\r\nA Month in the Country - J.L. Carr\\r\nWhen We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro\\r\nLove in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez\\r\nMy Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult\\r\nAmerican Pastoral - Philip Roth\\r\nRomanitas - Sophia McDougall\\r\nThe Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger\\r\nThe Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini\\r\nThese is My Words: the diary of Sarah Agnes Pryne - Nancy Turner\\r\nSpring Snow - Yukio Mishima\\r\nThe Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell\\r\nCloud Atlas - David Mitchell\\r\nThings Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe\\r\nAgnes Grey - Anne Bronte\\r\nThe Women's Room - Marilyn French\\r\nTuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom\\r\nThe Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde\\r\nA Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews\\r\nThe Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold\\r\nThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon\\r\nThe Shipping News - Annie Proulx","2013-06-10T21:38:00.000Z","camberwell-book-club-2004-2013",[],"camberwell book club 2004 - 2013",1776628725234]