YC Reading

Thank you to the Yeovil Hospital library for their great display of our selection  from the book club. It's (our) great pleasure that we can collaborate and promote the club with the hospital to help gain more members of the public. 

For any budding writers out there, fancy a go at the Langport Short Story competition? The General Rules: All entries must be original work that is unpublished in any other format and which has not won any other competition. All entries must be typed clearly in plain font, single spaced on A4 paper. Handwritten copies will not be accepted. Minimum of font size 11. If an entry contains several pages they must be stapled together. All entries to be written in English. The entry title must be clearly typed on the top of the entry and must match the title given on the entry form. No marking identifying the author to be included in the entry itself, only on the entry form. No single entrant will be awarded  more than one prize. Entry fee is £5 per story. No entry can be returned (so make a copy!) Copyright remains with the author. The organisers may publish the winning entry on the Internet, press, local or national radio and may be published during

Thank you to members Ann, April and Jamie for your support!

With great consideration i am pleased to announce our February book choice is " The fault in Our Stars" by John Green. The Fault in Our Stars is the fourth solo novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee. This may be a quite difficult and heartbreaking story to read, which will make for great discussion and analysis. I have ordered the books in, so will be issuing them in our January meeting. -Carey

Thank you to all that came down to the promotional event yesterday! We had great success in 4 new members, Sharon, (UCY lecturer) Maui and Sherlock (UCY Students) and Jamie (Yeovil College exams team), to which they borrowed a Nook and hardback copies of Norwegian Wood and The Cuckoo's Calling. With these new members we now have a growing team which now supports Yeovil College students, UCY students, Lectures and Staff. Finally we have had interest from a member of the public (John), and it is my hope that John can spread the word and we will be seeing plently of new faces in the January meeting! Thank you to all that came down to the event, it was great to have support from the club members. There will be plenty of pics to follow! -Carey

Norwegian Wood hardback books are now available at Yeovil College! Pop by the learning centre to get your copy! We will have all of our book club books also available at the UCY promotional event next Monday (9th) as well as a lovely selection of other fiction for you to browse and take away. -Carey

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J.K Rowling published under the pseudonym "Robert Galbraith". Cormoran Strike, private investigator, is hired by John Bristow, the adopted brother of famous supermodel Lula Laundry. Bristow wants Strike to investigate his sister's supposed suicide. Sceptical at first, Strike then finds himself indulged in the investigation, which keeps readers guessing at every turn, and with each character providing motive to kill, the list becomes a long one; Who could have wanted Lula dead? Guy Some: Famous fashion designer to whom Lula was a muse; Kieran Kovolas-Jones : The wannabe star and Lula's favourite driver; Either one of the Bestigus : The power/money mad couple living just below Lula; Tony Laundry : Uncle and resident Mr Nasty or; Evan Duffield : Loser addict-but-famous boyfriend.  Rowling does a fantastic job of introducing characters throughout-which was just enough to keep me guessing. Intricate i

The Nooks are on charge, the fictional books put aside and the cakes ordered all ready for our UCY promotional event! Come on down and show your support, have a browse of our selection and have a cake on us! Monday 9th December 3.30-5.30pm University Centre Yeovil, Preston Road. See you there!

Hello all, The Catcher in the Rye hardback copies have now come in to Yeovil College, if anybody would like to reserve a copy please pop by the learning centre or contact me directly (for non-students). Currently still waiting on Norwegian Wood, but of course, they are available on the Nook's to read. As always, i will keep you updated. What are you reading this weekend? - Carey

Norwegian Wood is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami . The novel is a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality. The story's protagonist and narrator is Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student living in Tokyo . Through Toru's reminiscences we see him develop relationships with two very different women — the beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko, and the outgoing, lively Midori. The novel is set in Tokyo during the late 1960s, a time when Japanese students, like those of many other nations, were protesting against the established order. While it serves as the backdrop against which the events of the novel unfold, Murakami (through the eyes of Toru and Midori) portrays the student movement as largely weak-willed and hypocritical . Murakami adapted the first section of the novel from an earlier short story, "Firefly". The story was subsequently included in the collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman .   http://en.w

We are holding an event to promote the book club and leisurely reading! Event details: Place: University Centre Yeovil (Preston Road) Date: Monday 9th December 2013 Time 3.30-5.30pm Come along, have a go at the Nooks, browse some excellent fiction books, enjoy a free slice of cake and have a chat! Looking forward to seeing you all there! -Carey

Hi all fellow book lovers! Just to remind you that the next book club meeting is Tuesday 26th November, 4pm, at the ARC at Yeovil College. Please could all members confirm their attendance with me via the blog/email. I cannot wait to get stuck into the next two books (Norwegian Wood and The Catcher In the Rye),a wonderful suggestion from our member April would be to contrast and compare the two? Looking forward to seeing old and new members next week, we can discuss more then, and of course have a good old chin wag about the current book "The Cuckoo's Calling". -Carey

Love reading? Want to join a book club? Come on over to the Yeovil College Reading Room!  We read everything from recent novels by popular authors, classics, and everything in-between!  It is a friendly and open discussion on the latest book, with the availability of participation via the blog/twitter or email! You DO NOT need to be a Yeovil College  student to be a member, just turn up!  All of our books are on loan by Yeovil College FREE OF CHARGE, either via hard back or the use of a Nook!  Our next meeting is Tuesday 26th November at 4pm, at Yeovil College (the ARC). Tell your friends! The more the merrier!  Looking forward to meeting my fellow bookworms! - Carey

Thank you for all your "favourite" submissions! I have drawn the lucky winner's out of the hat, which are.. "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami  And "The Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger I would like to focus more on Norwegian Wood but by all means if you have time to read them both for January's meeting (no December meeting scheduled) please do!  I will issue the books in November's meeting (please see previous post for details). Happy reading! - Carey 

Hello all, How is everyone getting on with this month's book? Rowling (Galbraith) is such a well descriptive author, I'm really enjoying the book so far. Just a reminder that this months book club is scheduled for Tuesday 26th November at Yeovil College at 4pm (In the ARC).  Looking forward to seeing you all there! - Carey 

"And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini, is a story of how families love, betray, honour and make sacrifices for each other. It reads like a collection of interconnected short stories with each character having a connection with the others. Although sometimes Hosseini doesn't give you much time to catch your breath and make sense of who is who in some of the stories (before you are propelled into another), this can sometimes be forgiven for such lines like; "I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us." Hosseini himself has described the novel as more global and less "afghan centric" than his previous books; the characters are all impacted by the events in Afghanistan (the history of the country is less central to this novel), which is more about family, morals and the love between siblings. The story is set in the present day and some of the stories bar

Thanks to everyone that came yesterday to the book club, it was great to meet our newest members Autumn and David.  We all had lots to say about "And the mountains echoed" (all of which will be summarised and posted in due-course). The month has past so quickly! So onto the next book we go; "The Cuckoo's Calling" by Robert Galbraith (also known as J K Rowling)  I cannot wait to get stuck in! -Carey 

Due to student half term, the 29th October Book Club meeting has been changed to TUESDAY 22ND OCTOBER at 3.30pm.  The meeting will be held at Yeovil College again, most likely we will stay at the College until we have more people join from the UCY and Yeovil Library.  Hope everyone is enjoying "And The Mountains Echoed" ?!  See you very soon -Carey  

Thanks to those who came today for our first ever book club! It was so nice to meet you all and I'm excited to get started!  Read till' your heart's content! - Carey  

Looking forward to meeting everyone at Yeovil College tomorrow at 4pm for the first book club meet! The books and EReaders are all ready to go for your reading pleasure!  - Carey  

If you were going to write a book, what genre would you write?  I would like to think I would go for a romance but i would quite like a go at fantasy or sci-fi..unfortunately my writing skills aren't quite up to par with Rowling's so I think i'll stick to reading!  - Carey  

"I invent nothing. I rediscover."  - August Rodin I think this applies to books in that there are only so many plots in the world. However authors twist the plot and add new characters and new settings, it is extremely rare to read a book with a completely new and original plot. Regardless, most of those stories are still amazing anyways.  Do you have a favourite plot-type? (such as coming-of-age or hero's journey, for example?)  - Carey  

Do you ever have books that you are reading that you don't want to let other people know you are reading? And contrarily are there ever books you especially want people to notice that you're reading? I know we all love to read everything we do, but there are times that we just have a book in front of us that people might notice. Which books make you sit up a little taller, and which books makes you hide the cover of? - Carey  

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Hello and welcome to the Yeovil College Book Club! I would like to start off with a small introduction from myself, Carey Simpson. I have been appointed by Yeovil College to facilitate, support and manage monthly meetings for students and members of the public who wish to share their love of reading with others. In collaboration with SWRLS organisation and Yeovil Public Library, myself and Yeovil College would like to invite you to join an interactive social media driven book club which will run from September 2013 until July 2014. As previously stated, there will be monthly meetings held, which are initially agreed to be the last Tuesday of every month at 4pm. The meetings will alternate between Yeovil College, Mudford Road, University Centre, Preston Road and the Yeovil Public Library, King George Street. Please note, these details may be subject to change dependant on member availability. The book's discussed will mainly concentrate on recent novels from popular modern a