Category: Book Club
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Centenary of Portswood Library
Portswood Library, part of Southampton City Libraries @sotonlibraries, will be celebrating its centenary on Thursday 22 October, and Sotonettes members have been invited to join the festivities. There will be an exciting programme of activities and events for children and adults, with special guests, stories, crafts and lots more to be announced. To help with the celebrations…
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Book Club round-up
The summer has been a busy time for our book club and our members have had a great few months reading a wide variety of books. We now have a ‘Sotonettes score’ for each book – if you’re looking for something to read, have a look below to see what we all thought of our…
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The Sotonettes and Jane Austen
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mansfield Park being published, we chose Jane Austen to read and discuss this month at the Sotonettes Book Club. The main book was Northanger Abbey, but any book was up for discussion, and we did talk about them all – Mansfield Park, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and of…
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Book Club update
Our next Book Club meeting is tonight (Tuesday April 15th) – if you’ve always thought about coming along but have never been yet, make this your first meeting! Reading the book isn’t necessary and we know a lot of you have seen the TV adaptation of this month’s book, The Ice Cream Girls! For more…
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Book Club scores
After a few months of Book Club meetings, a few people suggested that each book could be scored out of 10 to help keep a record of those books most enjoyed by the Sotonettes but to also help guide people looking for a great read. Unfortunately a simple suggestion is never simple and everyone quickly…
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#readwomen2014
If you haven’t seen our Facebook posts or heard us chatting about the Sotonettes Book Club already, you’re missing out! In the autumn of 2013, Kate (one of our Sotonettes Committee Members) decided to start up the book club and it’s already become very popular. If you’d like to find out more about it, have…