For anyone who is as yet unaware, the next item for consideration is Richard Jefferies' autobiography 'The Story of my Heart.' If you can't get hold of a real-life copy on actual paper it can be downloaded for free. The following site is just one of many.

www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1023&pageno=3

If this is not to your taste (and there is a good chance that it may not be) you are welcome to read and discuss anything with a local flavour: Alfred Williams or Francis Kilvert spring to mind, or from slightly further afield Ivor Gurney or Laurie Lee. William Beckford for those who like a dollop of Arabian decadence with their Sunday roast.

It would also be good to talk about some poetry for once. I'll leave it up to you to find some local poets.

In case you don't know, we'll be meeting at 11 o'clock on the 7th March.

A Short Introduction

Hello, good evening and welcome to the shiny new blog. It's been a while coming, but hopefully now it's here it will be useful and fun. I see it as a way of keeping everybody interested between our actual 'real life' meetings - a month is a long time in the world of books, and any interim communication will surely be a good thing. Also, we will be able to suggest books in advance which will give me more time to order them if the library doesn't have enough copies. So get suggesting, people!

If anyone has any other ideas regarding how the blog should work, what it should include or what it should look like then don't hold back. Something like this needs the ideas of a group in order to grow successfully.

I suppose we really should start things off with some kind of discussion about this month's book, but I've only read the first 150 pages, so I will leave that particular job to someone else. Opinionated rants are more than welcome. It's all yours...