YC Reading

There has been a change in date for April's Book Club meeting. Please note the new meeting date is now:   Tuesday 14th April 4PM Yeovil College 'A Farewell to Arms' to be discussed   Pop it in your diary!

This month’s Book Club choice is in the form of the classic ‘ A Farewell to Arms ’ by Ernest Hemingway. To get your copy please email the Book Club on learningcentre@yeovil.ac.uk or call on 01935 485450 and ask for Carey or Sharon. Please note- there is NO meeting in March and the next meet will be Tuesday 7 th April, 4pm at Yeovil College. 

Sam: When I first heard that we were reading 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' (Rachel Joyce) as a book club read, I wasn't particularly enthused. The cover looked old fashioned and the title seemed wordy and dated. Yet after coming across this title in a charity shop and reading it, I have much admiration for Joyce as a storyteller and am determined to get my hands on everything she has ever written. There is nothing revolutionary about this book. It is a book about ordinary people, each one, like all humans, with their own story and 'defining' moment. I really admire the way Joyce can use so few words to convey so much. There is very little dialogue in the very first chapter yet it kind of expresses everything about the Fry's marriage at that time. Being a book about walking the length of England, there is obviously a lot of description and setting info which I would often find tedious but not here. Joyce has just got such a concise way of writing y

The news the literary world is buzzing about:   http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/second-harper-lee-novel-to-be-published-in-july/ar-AA8W3xi?ocid=ansnewsap11   How fantastic! 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is one of mine and the Book Club's all time favourite reads!   Can't wait to get my hands on a copy!   - Carey

  Yeovil College staff and students LOVE to read and we simply just cannot live without books..here we tell you why:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbph9_UV4Rk