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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 19:40:34 GMT
Got your pm. And you are coming on the night out aren't you?? Not easy with small ones is it but it all goes by so quick. Doesn't seem like it when you're in the middle of it, I know. You must get some photos and put them up here soon.
Glad to hear that you wouldn't put up with that any more. I pity poor Stephen!
Sallys mother was a 'koude kikker' as we say here. (cold frog). It was like she blamed Sally on getting pregnant, tried to shut her out. Didn't like the woman at all
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Post by charlene on Oct 27, 2005 19:45:50 GMT
got to go now girls the lads are still up as there is no school and they are getting tired now so I'll get them to bed and read somemore of my book
catch you all tommorow and great to have you back on the boards Lisa.
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Post by lisa on Oct 27, 2005 19:46:09 GMT
Girls, can i say something here, im gonna be very honest and just say how i feel, maybe some of you will agree with me, and if you dont thats cool, its just my opinion okay.
The book club yeah, well ive been involved in book clubs before and its a chance for a gang of friends to come together and discuss in detail a book which we've all decided on, okay.
Now, I dont know about you but I find here sometimes Im afraid to say too much and am watchin my words cos I dont want to ruin it for the people who havent read it yet.
But surely the idea of the book club is so we can all disucss what we liked and didnt like etc etc.
Do you think girls that maybe those of us that havent read the particular book thats up for book club that month that if we dont want to ruin it before we read it that maybe either we dont join in on that particular night and maybe read the posts at a later date or just join in and if we end up hearing what happens at the end well so be it.
Does anyone find that alot of the time someone might ask a question about the story yeah, and then one of us might say including myself now, well, i dont want to say cos i dont want to ruin it for such and such!!
Maybe its just me girls and if nobody agrees thats fine, i promise. But i find when we do come on on our normal thursday night bookclub for over the last year or so, were kinda just saying the bare things we want to say, were not getting in there and tearing the book to shreds with either praise or those who didnt like it, critisicism. Thats what book clubs are for tho, really getting in there and talking about what we liked and didnt like etc etc.
what do you think? Am i just going mad altogether? should i just log off now and go back to Gooing and Gaaing with my babies!!!!
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 19:48:58 GMT
Don't you go posting something like this and then go shagging of.
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 19:57:36 GMT
Now to continue, yes lisa you have a good point there. I've never been to a book club, this is the one and only for me. Sometimes people don't have a chance to read the book in time for the club or can't get their hands on it in time. There have been books on here that are just out in Ireland and talked about straight away here. This booked was picked because so many had talked about it and wanted to talk about it. But as usual the same few turned up for the disscuisson. (i know my spelling is bad just bear with me). I come on most of the time because I think it would be awful if nobody came. Charlie has already said that she didn't mind if we spell out what happens.
Lisa I think you have a good point, if were going to talk about a book and tear it appart we should do so. And if you haven't read it and don't want to know what happens then dont read this til you have.
So lisa what have you got to say, Susan you anything you would like to add, Go ahead spill the beans on the whole story!
hope I haven't offended anyone here
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:01:43 GMT
Sorry if I've gone too far
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Post by lisa on Oct 27, 2005 20:02:09 GMT
girls thanks for all the well wishes and welcomes back on the boards!!
missed ye all you know!!
My god, some of the bangers and fireworks going off locally are like bloody bombs!! Poor kai gets terrible frights.
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Post by lisa on Oct 27, 2005 20:04:47 GMT
Thanks claire!!
Just had to get that off my chest!!
No i didnt go anywere, did it say i had logged off??
I am fliltting between this and email at the moment. sorry, Ive got so much nutse going on in my life at the moment, Claire im gonna email you proper either later or tomorrw and fill you in. want to get your advice on something okay.
is everyone still here?
God, now i can talk about the book properly, Im stuck for words!!!
LOL!!!!!
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Post by susanmay on Oct 27, 2005 20:12:59 GMT
What are you reading at the moment, Lisa?
What I was saying about the end was the fact that David wasn't gay after all. I'm obviously glad that Sally ended up with him!!
What was the name of the guy in the book that you were led to believe was his partner? Her mother was dreadful too. . .
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Post by lisa on Oct 27, 2005 20:13:11 GMT
Glad to hear that you wouldn't put up with that any more. I pity poor Stephen! POOR STEPHEN!!! Dont let him hear you say that claire, he still feels terrible hard done by, hasnt stopped looking for sympathy since he delivered max on the sitting room floor!!! |
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:15:38 GMT
Lisa we also have a new thread going in the General section 'pass it on' where we post books on to each other. You must check that out. I got a couple from Marian in Scotland and just finished one, No Wonder I take A Drink. Very funny.
Anyways I really enjoyed Tracys book, and can find little fault. I don't think the cover suited the style of story and maybe that's why I was surprised by her style. As intelligent as Sally was she just diddn't have any confidence. All she wanted was to feel part of a family. Her mother was some woman and I was thrilled when her half sister acknowledged just how emotionlly shut off their mother was. Sally now knew that it wasn't just her, it wasn't something she had done, it was just the way her mother was.
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Post by lisa on Oct 27, 2005 20:18:41 GMT
Sorry if I've gone too far no claire your dead right, you havent gone too far at all. I was aware that some of the girls cant get their hands on the books and i appreciate that, sure god i remember when the book club started and for the first few months you couldnt get the book we had picked in time, do you remember, but without fail you were ALWAYS there on the thursday night to join in and that was brilliant! sure jaysus claire there were some night when you were nearly the only bloody one there!! So, i know its hard for some, but what about doing the bookclub every TWO months so then EVERYONE can defintly get a copy of the book and those who just cant get it in their own country, well i have no problem at all in posting the book to anyone no matter where they are in the world. at least this way, we will all have read it and can really get stuck in. what do ya think? |
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:19:16 GMT
That's right Susan we were led to believe that his buisness partner was more than that. But I liked his sover story that he didn't date customers, that can cause real trouble. And as for gossip, in the changing room about David, well i hear enough at school to know how that goes on. Sometimes I hear things that seem so untrue that I go up to the person and ask them, more or less if it's true. Get it from the horses mouth, so to speak
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Post by susanmay on Oct 27, 2005 20:20:39 GMT
Every TWO months is a good idea.
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Post by lisa on Oct 27, 2005 20:22:45 GMT
What are you reading at the mo? im actually reading three susan, i had bought TARA ROAD again cos i went to the preview of the movie a few weeks ago and wanted to read it again, excellent book, film very good aswell. not too mad on andie mcdowell but she played the part very well. Im also reading and this is taking up most of my time cos shes no doubt my favourite, Melissa Hill, WISHFUL THINKING, so far so very good aswell. And i had just bought WWW. Club before i got wishful thinking so im about 50 pages into that too. Not amazxing so far, but hoping it gets alot better. ive read good things about here on this site so heres hoping. What you reading? |
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:23:06 GMT
Lisa that sounds great to me. I actually sent the money to my mother to buy and post this one over to me because it sounded so good. By the way next months is Marshas Mehran Pm Soup book. We were giving Abby and Nic a chance to get their hands on it first. Maybe every two months is good we have to get the others on to it, see what they think
I going boggled eyed here it's an hour later than you lot. if I'm suddenly gone that's Hein dragging me off to bed!
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Post by lisa on Oct 27, 2005 20:24:53 GMT
What I was saying about the end was the fact that David wasn't gay after all. I'm obviously glad that Sally ended up with him!! What was the name of the guy in the book that you were led to believe was his partner? Her mother was dreadful too. . . god cant remember his name susan? as i was saying in my PM to you though, surely sally would have copped in the months she was living with david that he was straight though no?? like didnt they watch tv together? surely he would have wanted" to have watch "sex in the city" and "Queer eye......and wouldnt he have been eyeing up all the fit guys on the TV too!!! |
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:26:33 GMT
As i said some where I've just finished a book that marian sent me. it'll be net week before I start anything. I've got one from Sheils O Flanigan lined up but it's in Dutch and I'm not quite ready to get my mind around it yet. I've another one from Marian to read sounds funny don't know the title anymore. I hope to buy some when I come over, only 4 weeks away!!
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:28:00 GMT
DARIUS
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Post by susanmay on Oct 27, 2005 20:28:07 GMT
I'm reading Marisa Mackles Mr. Right for The Night. Shirley passed it on to me. Charlie is reading it after me. So far so good.
Bought Tara road too, Lisa. Can't wait to start reading it again.
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:30:15 GMT
I'm sending Shirley More than Friends
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Post by susanmay on Oct 27, 2005 20:32:15 GMT
Darius, thats the very man.
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:34:39 GMT
She thought he was just staying out of the way. She was too busy enjoying herself with David that she didn't care where Darius was
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Post by claire on Oct 27, 2005 20:36:52 GMT
that's it for me I'm off.
Lisa it's great to have you back. Any questions just ask, you can email me anytime girl.
Susan I enjoyed chatting with you too
And Charlie. Finish the book and come tell us what you thought
goodnight one and all see you lot tomorrow!!
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Post by susanmay on Oct 27, 2005 20:38:24 GMT
You too, Claire. Chat tomorrow, Charlie. Hopefully chat soon, Lisa.
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Post by Shirley on Oct 28, 2005 12:41:05 GMT
Well girls, I think anyone who looks at this thread who hasn't read the book or anyone who wants to attend the bookclub but hasn't finished the book knows that certain key points will be given away, so I would think we should all say what we want when discussing books at bookclubs and then it's the responsibility of everyone else to choose not to read those threads if they don't want things to be given away to them, or not to attend the bookclub if they don't want the ending to be ruined for them. I read all of your posts this morning, but I just skimmed over some of them if I got a feeling that something was going to be given away - but it would have been my own fault if I had found stuff out because you know when you read the bookclub thread that key plotlines will have to be discussed, you know?
It's up to ye though really because I don't have Internet access at home, and the chances of me ever attending the bookclub are very slim :-( But I might get the Internet set up at home next year.
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Post by Marian on Oct 28, 2005 16:26:33 GMT
I agree Shirley if noone has read the particular book discussed at that month's book club then don't look at the threads. I would very rarely be able to attend the book club but going to make a real effort for Marsha's books. The other thing I have to add Lisa is that perhaps people don't want to slate a book if they know the author is going to read the thread but like you at my last book club everyone just got tore into the book honestly.
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Post by Tracy on Oct 29, 2005 9:55:16 GMT
Thank you everybody for picking MORE THAN FRIENDS for your book club, and for such honest feedback. Don't worry, Marian, about saying what you want about a book even if the author is going to read it. We authors realise that it's part of the gig, having people commenting good and bad. And I don't think any of us, certainly I don't, think my writing is so perfect that nobody could ever criticise it. And I'm still learning my craft, you know, I don't think I've reached some perfect point where I know it all ... so critical feedback is essential to improve.
Thanks again.
Tracy
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Post by charlene on Nov 2, 2005 14:36:13 GMT
Well I finished More Than Friends and I loved it one of my favourite books this year I couldnt really find any faults with the book it was the first one of Tracy's I have read and didnt know what to expect but I wasnt disappointed. I liked the end and I'm pleased Sally found happiness at the end
I agree about the book club being every two month as it is hard to get the books sometimes plus these months are just flying by.
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Post by c on Nov 2, 2005 14:57:37 GMT
hey girls! It's Cillian! Remember me?.....it's been so long now since i've been on...teaching now so i'm on my mid-term! Looking forward to seeing you all in a few weeks now. Take care ladies. Kisses. Cillian
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