The New Forest Book Club Meeting 28.09.22 - Forest Lodge - "The Maze Runner"

Following Points Agreed:

Book Choice:

• in order to give all members more time to read the selected books, we reviewed and voted on the selections until December 2022/January 2023 as follows:

• Book choice for November 2022 [genre: HISTORICAL FICTION] between the following titles — final selection in Bold

  • “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker

    • The Color Purple (Movie 1985) starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey

  • “12 Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup

  • “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead

  • “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett

  • “The Last Kingdom” by Bernard Cornwell

  • “Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood

  • “The Mists of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan

  • “Memoir of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden

  • “Clan of the Cave Bear” by Jean M. Auel

  • “The Hours” by Michael Cunningham

  • “The House of the Spirits” by Isabelle Allende

  • “Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel

  • “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” by Patrick Suskind

  • “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • “The Son” by Philipp Meyer

  • “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Thurston

  • “The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough

  • “True Grit” by Charles Portis

  • “Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel

  • “The Cider House Rules” by John Irving

  • “Atonement” by Ian McEwan

  • “The Moon and the Sun” by Vonda N. McIntyre

  • “The Essex Serpent” by Sarah Perry

  • “The Wonder” by Emma Donoghue

  • “The Dovekeepers” by Alice Hoffman

  • “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

• Book choice for December 2022 [genre: CHILDREN] between the following titles

  • “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett

    • The Secret Garden (Movie 2020) starring Dixie Egerickx, Richard Hansell, David Verrey

  • "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling

  • "The Bad Beginning“ by Lemmy Snicket

  • “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl

  • “The Lorax” by Dr Seuss

  • “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

  • “Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery

  • “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak

  • “The Borrowers” by Mary Norton

  • “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White

  • “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis

  • “The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman

  • “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick

  • “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling

  • “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle

  • “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Frank L. Baum

  • "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children" by Ramson Riggs

  • “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman

  • “Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson

  • “The Tiger Rising” by Kate DiCamillo

• Book choice for January 2023 [genre: THRILLER/CRIME] between the following titles

  • “Deep Water” by Patricia Highsmith

    • Deep Water (Movie 2022) starring Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas

  • “The Old Man” by Thomas Perry

  • “The Black Echo” by Michael Connelly

  • "The Lincoln Lawyer” by Michael Connelly

  • “Slow Horses” by Mick Herron

  • “The Godfather” by Mario Puz

  • “The Woman in the Window” by A.J. Finn

  • “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie

  • “Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie

  • “No Country for Old Men” by Cormac McCarthy

  • “Anatomy of a Scandal” by Sarah Vaughan

  • “The Terminal List” by Jack Carr

  • “Killing Floor” by Lee Child

  • “The Firm” by John Grisham

  • “Luckiest Girl Alive” by Jessica Knoll

  • “The Gray Man” by Mark Greaney

  • “The Night Manager” by John Le Carre

  • “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Steig Larsson

  • “Casino Royale” by Ian Fleming

• As previously agreed, the choice for October 2022 is “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger

Preparation for Discussion:

1. reading the chosen book

2. pick a favourite quote

3. underlying themes & characters

Communication, etc:

• as always, further selections, messages etc will be made through the New Forest Book Club WhatsApp group

• updates will also be posted on the website

• since it is not always feasible to meet for a second time for a "viewing" it was decided among members that we would meet once a month (approximately the second Wednesday of the month where possible) for a book discussion that would also include a discussion of the book's adaptation.

• The venue for the next meeting will be decided on a month by month basis to be either at one of the venues of the New Forest Collection or to be hosted by Rasha Shammas or Min Grout at their respective homes in Lyndhurst

NEXT MEETING:

BOOK & ADAPTATION DISCUSSION

Date and Time: Wednesday 12.10.22 at 17:45 to 19:45 (approx)

Venue: Little Elcombes, Lyndhurst

Book: “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger

Members:

• Min Grout

• Rasha Shammas

• Paige Tomlinson-Miles

• Carmel Power

• Charlotte Dawson