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The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Rauf

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The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Rauf

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A brilliant book from a child's perspective on the refugee crisis. Read now! (Suzie)

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Currently reading it. It is a novel about a Korean family who ends up moving to Japan. It follows then from 1910 to the 1980's. It has an interesting historical background. I am enjoying it.

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I guess I chose that one as I was joining the library services. The story is about parallel lives and moving from one to the next through books in your own life library. It reminded me of the TV show Sliders. Probably a bit teenagy but an easy read.

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Many different kinds of love by Michael Rosen 

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Many different kinds of love by Michael Rosen 

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Profound insight into Rosen's experiences of being very poorly with Covid, and those who cared for him. (Suzie)

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Borrowed from the book club table. About someone who collected items and the journey for them to be reunited with their owners - quirky and enjoyable read. (Suzie)

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- based in west Wales, sharing lives and events in a small village - each chapter starts with a recipe. Really lovely book. Originally published in Welsh - I read the English version! (Suzie)

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I finally got around to reading Hamnet when we were in the Peak District the other week.  Such brilliant writing and a devastatingly accurate portrait of the (TRIGGER WARNING) grief that follows sudden and unexpected death. I haven't been as moved to tears by a book for years! Despite this - highly recommended *****

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Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (Hilary)

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Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (Hilary)

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A novel centred around a tour leader who's an expert in Southeast Asian antiques, culture and history who is killed before she can take a group on a tour of Burma. Her spirit follows the tour with a replacement guide and their adventures. An interesting read about Burma and its people and the junta. Not all serious either!

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La Peste  (The Plague) by Albert Camus - reread - Hilary

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La Peste  (The Plague) by Albert Camus - reread - Hilary

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Still reading it on the Kindle and almost at the end. A must read and if you don't want to read it was on Radio 4 back in the winter BBC Radio 4 - Drama, The Plague currently not usable but might be on BoB. Read it originally when I was about 17/18 as I got hooked on existentialism and Camus doing Les Justes (Camus) with Les Mains Sales (Sartre) for A Level. Gives fantastic parallels with the behaviour of citizens, medics, journalists and the town council in the current pandemic although this one is restricted to one town and it's response.

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Neil Bartlett's adaptation of The Plague focuses the story on five characters, using only words contained in the novel.

The Plague was adapted from the globally renowned novel La Peste by Albert Camus, and directed for radio by Neil Bartlett, based on his 2017 Arcola Theatre production and script. A disturbing, deeply relevant listen.

Bartlett's adaptation focuses the story on five characters, using only words contained in the novel.

It is often said of La Peste - written in 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner for literature, Albert Camus - that the plague and the rats in his novel are an allegory for the rise of fascism across Europe. He always denied this. For us today, The Plague will have uncanny echoes of the pandemic, the restrictions and the moral dilemmas we are living through, as well as the rise of extremist ideology in many countries today.

Just like our current crisis, the characters in The Plague comprise heroes, selfless and selfish acts, those who shame themselves into changing, and those who do not and suffer the consequences once the plague has been conquered. Hope surfaces when there is talk of a serum but, with the arrival of the first attempts at a cure, who should be selected as the guinea pigs ?

In an uncanny parallel, this drama about a community facing lockdown due to a deadly plague was recorded by actors, locked down in their own homes during our own pandemic. The scope of the production was not reduced as a result.

Cast:
Doctor Rieux ............ Sara Powell
Raymond Rambert .... Billy Postlethwaite
Mr Cottard ................ Joe Alessi
Jean Tarrou .............. Jude Aduwudike
Mr Grand .................. Colin Hurley

Adapted for radio and directed by Neil Bartlett

Producer: Turan Ali

A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4

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Neil Bartlett's adaptation of The Plague focuses the story on five characters, using only words contained in the novel. The Plague was adapted from the globally renowned novel La Peste by Albert Camus, and directed for radio by Neil Bartlett, based on his 2017 Arcola Theatre production and script.

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I think I read both 'Little Fires Everywhere' and 'Everything I Never Told You' by Celeste Ng in one day each. They are both mildly suspenseful with a mystery at the center but super interesting portrait of upper class, white Midwest America. Very well written and great story telling. I think someone else in the liaison team didn't like these though, was it you Elaine? (Leah)

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I re-read this as I remember loving it a few years ago and was really disappointed. It is set in the early 1900s in rural Montana and is heart warming and beautifully written. I didn't notice when I read it the first time, which disappoints me in myself, but there is an utter erasure of Native Americans in the story, despite a major theme being 'homesteading' and the 'free' land the government was giving away.

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Leanne - I read Digital Natives - race and class in the ruins of empire by Akala 

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Leanne - I read Digital Natives - race and class in the ruins of empire by Akala 

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I thought it was well written and a must read to begin to understand experiences of racism - especially when like me you travel through life with the privilege of not experiencing it

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Rachel Da has been reading - How the one-armed sister sweeps her house by Cherie Jones

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Rachel Da has been reading - How the one-armed sister sweeps her house by Cherie Jones

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Becky Carroll has been reading - No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood 

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Becky Carroll has been reading - No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood 

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Darkly tragi-comic and a must read for anyone who's spent too much of the last few years doom-scrolling the internet (that's all of us right?)

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Also available on BorrowBox and a great novel (this is Leah I didn't log in)

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ANIMAL (LISA TADDEO) compulsive reading, an unfolding life story and quite confronting in several parts - you name a trigger warning and it is in this book, so not an easy read at all but an exploration of the psychological background of a very vulnerable woman who struggles to find any lasting happiness or fulfilment in her life

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ANIMAL (LISA TADDEO) compulsive reading, an unfolding life story and quite confronting in several parts - you name a trigger warning and it is in this book, so not an easy read at all but an exploration of the psychological background of a very vulnerable woman who struggles to find any lasting happiness or fulfilment in her life

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SHUGGIE BAIN (DOUGLAS STEWART) - wow wow wow! Really emotional story and I cried loads but absolutely loved it and couldn't put it down

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SHUGGIE BAIN (DOUGLAS STEWART) - wow wow wow! Really emotional story and I cried loads but absolutely loved it and couldn't put it down

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MALIBU RISING (TAYLOR JENKINS REID) - disappointing follow up to Daisy Jones and the Six, thread of an enjoyable story but read like a draft not a finished book... very poor :( 

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MALIBU RISING (TAYLOR JENKINS REID) - disappointing follow up to Daisy Jones and the Six, thread of an enjoyable story but read like a draft not a finished book... very poor :( 