Book Club!
We had our first bookclub this morning! Bev, Jonathan and I thought we'd set the ball rolling on the Bookclub, worst thing to do is talk about what you're going to do....better just do it, I've been banging on about it since January.
What a success! I felt right invigorated afterwards! The idea was just to meet up loosely with a bookish theme ( I mentioned the books we've been swapping in an earlier blog) and I had imagined we'd make a pretence at the literary and then on with the gossip as per, but NO..... Patrick Hamilton, Muriel Stark, Rhonda Byrne were the themes of the day, but quite by accident we have our next subject for discussion "The Driver's Seat" by Muriel Stark....if anyone wants to discuss "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" we understand and accept its genius and it deserves a round of applause at least! (Miss Murphy can we tempt you?). It's so wierd because I saw a clip from the film of the book starring Elizabeth Taylor on Donald Urquart's myspace page
http://www.myspace.com/thatdonald and was intrigued, especially since I'm obsessed with Elizabeth at this stage of her life, she did some strange and great work possibly through a bit of a drug fug and I find her so beautiful still even though she has an obvious disregard for her perfection....like Anita Pallenberg or Anna Nicole Smith later. Here's a clip of the movie, I'm sure you'll understand why I was hooked...
Who knew what Muriel Stark thought of the movie......!?
Anyway, it turns out Jonathan is writing an article for an academic literary anthology on "The Driver's Seat" and so it's nice to have an academic slant on things....Doctor Kemp will be opening all sorts of doors of learning over the coming weeks I feel! So, next Thursday morning it's a date. 11.30 in the Shop; coffee, literary chat, cake if you please and I'm sure a big dollop of gossip!!
Do come!
Madame xxx
What a success! I felt right invigorated afterwards! The idea was just to meet up loosely with a bookish theme ( I mentioned the books we've been swapping in an earlier blog) and I had imagined we'd make a pretence at the literary and then on with the gossip as per, but NO..... Patrick Hamilton, Muriel Stark, Rhonda Byrne were the themes of the day, but quite by accident we have our next subject for discussion "The Driver's Seat" by Muriel Stark....if anyone wants to discuss "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" we understand and accept its genius and it deserves a round of applause at least! (Miss Murphy can we tempt you?). It's so wierd because I saw a clip from the film of the book starring Elizabeth Taylor on Donald Urquart's myspace page
http://www.myspace.com/thatdonald and was intrigued, especially since I'm obsessed with Elizabeth at this stage of her life, she did some strange and great work possibly through a bit of a drug fug and I find her so beautiful still even though she has an obvious disregard for her perfection....like Anita Pallenberg or Anna Nicole Smith later. Here's a clip of the movie, I'm sure you'll understand why I was hooked...
Who knew what Muriel Stark thought of the movie......!?
Anyway, it turns out Jonathan is writing an article for an academic literary anthology on "The Driver's Seat" and so it's nice to have an academic slant on things....Doctor Kemp will be opening all sorts of doors of learning over the coming weeks I feel! So, next Thursday morning it's a date. 11.30 in the Shop; coffee, literary chat, cake if you please and I'm sure a big dollop of gossip!!
Do come!
Madame xxx
Labels: Anita Pallenberg, Anna Nicole Smith, Elizabeth Taylor, Muriel Stark, Patrick Hamilton, Rhonda Byrne
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