Reading

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Come and join the

EuroMayenne Reading Group

We share a love of books !

This EuroMayenne group is for members to get together each month to discuss a book that they have all just read.

It will encourage you to read more books and books that you might not normally choose.

The reasons that people give for joining a reading group include reading a wide variety of books, making friends, having fun, meeting like-minded people and stimulating the brain cells!

So please come and join us for our fourth year in this venture.

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All dates are subject to current Government and Local Authority restrictions regarding Coronavirus Covid-19 and subject to change or cancellation.

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When

Monthly on the last Wednesday at 2.30 pm.

Please let Pam know (contact details at the bottom of this page) at least one week in advance if  you will be going.

So, make notes in your diary for

Book titles – see table below. 

These are to be across a wide range of genres including general fiction, mysteries, historical fiction and non-fiction. They are always available in English and French versions. They allow for discussion between both English and French speakers.

Future books to read are decided by the group members.

2024

Month	Title	Author	Synopsis
September 25	Still Life	Sarah Winman	1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship.
October 30	We are all completely beside ourselves	Karen Jay Fowler	It was Rosemary’s parents who began all of the trouble – isn’t it always? But, dear reader, exactly how they did it is a twist you’ll have to discover for yourself.
November 27	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	The Big Sleep is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. In 1999, the book was voted 96th of Le Monde’s “100 Books of the Century”.
December			(no meeting)

2025

Month	Title	Author	Synopsis
January 29	Dissolution	CJ Sansom	England, 1537. It is a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church. Dissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom’s Shardlake series.
February 26	The Braid	Laetitia Colombani	Three women. Three countries. One unforgettable journey. The Braid is a vibrant and singular reminder of what connects us all – across borders, across languages, across cultures.
March 26	My sister the serial killer	Oyinkan Braithwaite	Winner of the 2019 LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller Capital Crime Debut Author of the Year 2019 ‘A bombshell of a book… Sharp, explosive, hilarious’ – New York Times
April 30	Froth on the Daydream	Boris Vian	Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian, a surrealist and existentialist novel renowned for its poetic and creative language. It relates how Colin’s existence darkens gradually when his wife catches an illness than can only be cured with flowers.
May 28	Les vestiges du jour	Kazuo Ishiguro	A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
June 25	I remember Falloujah	Feurat Alani	In this poignant first novel of memory, identity, and generational trauma, a child of political refugees tries to uncover the past his dying father kept secret, painting a powerful, layered portrait of Iraq from the 1950s to the 2000s.

Where

At the home of a member in Evron

Contact Pam Davies for details (see below)

 

Cost

There will be no cost other than the member purchasing/downloading the book of the month.

Refreshments (tea/coffee/cakes) will always be available – all that is asked is for a small donation.

Interested ?

Contact the reading group:

Pam DAVIES

02.43.00.87.17

contact@euromayenne.org