QUAD Derby

Would you like to start reading more? Are you into books, discussing your thoughts and want to broaden your literary remit?

BooksQUAD brings together book worms with different preferences and perspectives, all with a shared love for the written word.
 
Come along any or every month as we take it in turns to select a book and discuss it.

Books selected will be displayed on this page each month so new members are always welcome.
 
There is no fee to join, and you can come along as little or as often as you choose. You will however need to source the chosen book each month either from a library, book shop or online.

We meet in the Participation Space in QUAD (with discount on food and drink) on the second Monday of the month from 6.00pm until 8.00pm.

If you would like to be emailed and kept up to date with book choices each month, please email Rhiannon with your details so you can be added to the mailing list (contact details at bottom).

Upcoming Meetings:

Books are chosen at the end of each session for the next one, you only need to choose and read one.

Monday 13th February 2012 - books to be discussed;

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Lance Armstrong - It's Not About the Bike

Monday 12th March 2012 - books to be discussed; 

Michelle Lovric - The Book of Human Skin
George R Stewart - Earth Abides
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

Swap sQUAD!

Anyone who wants to participate in this, the swapping of books, should each bring in a random book of theirs all wrapped up and place secretly on a table. Everyone who has brought a book can then pick randomly from the pile, and receive a new book to keep, hopefully that they've never read. These can then be read and swapped again or simply wrapped up for next time if you really don't want to read it!

It does not mean you need to go out and buy a book, it can be an unwanted Christmas present, a book that's been sitting on your shelves for years but you've never read, a book you've read a few times and love and wish to share with others or a book you've already read and aren't going to read again.

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Archive

BooksQUAD started on 8th March 2010. The following books have been featured in meetings;

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Sacrifice of Tamar by Naomi Ragen

The Collector by John Fowles
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Plus a short story; The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier

Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
One Day by David Nicholls
And a poem: Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Maus by Art Spielman
Freakanomics by Steven D. Levitt
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
1984 by George Orwell

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

The Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Beloved by Toni Morrison

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
and The City and the City by China Mieville

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Sum by David Eagleman
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
World War Z by Max Brooks

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Contact

For more information, please contact Rhiannon at rhiannon@katapult-studios.com

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