Cricklereaders Book Group
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Calendar of Meetings
The group meets every six weeks at the library. To find out when the next meeting is, view the library events calendar.
Previous Reads
Cricklereaders April 2022 – The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
The April meeting will meet on Sunday 3 April at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is The Forty Rules of Love, by Turkish author Elif Shafak. Synopsis "A novel within a novel, The Forty Rules of Love tells two parallel stories (The technique placing...
Cricklereaders February 2022 – Girl, Woman, Other, by
The February meeting will take place on Sunday at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummings. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows...
Cricklereaders January 2022 – American Dirt by
The January meeting will take place on Sunday 9 January at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummings. An incendiary novel of desperate love and pulse-quickening danger, American Dirt confronts the lawless frontier of...
Cricklereaders November 2021 – Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he...
Cricklereaders October 2021 – Klara and the Sun
The book chosen for October's meeting is Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, Kazuo Ishiguro moved to Britain at the age of five. He is a multi-award-winning author, including the Nobel and Booker Prizes. The Remains of the...
Cricklereaders May 2021 – Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
We just finished Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. Yaa is Ghanaian American, born in Ghana, brought up in the USA. This is her second book. Most of the group enjoyed the read, and even those who were less enthusiastic still found something to admire in it. It is an...
Cricklereaders April 2022 – The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
The April meeting will meet on Sunday 3 April at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is The Forty Rules of Love, by Turkish author Elif Shafak. Synopsis "A novel within a novel, The Forty Rules of Love tells two parallel stories (The technique placing...
Cricklereaders February 2022 – Girl, Woman, Other, by
The February meeting will take place on Sunday at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummings. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows...
Cricklereaders January 2022 – American Dirt by
The January meeting will take place on Sunday 9 January at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummings. An incendiary novel of desperate love and pulse-quickening danger, American Dirt confronts the lawless frontier of...
Cricklereaders November 2021 – Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he...
Cricklereaders October 2021 – Klara and the Sun
The book chosen for October's meeting is Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, Kazuo Ishiguro moved to Britain at the age of five. He is a multi-award-winning author, including the Nobel and Booker Prizes. The Remains of the...
Cricklereaders May 2021 – Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
We just finished Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. Yaa is Ghanaian American, born in Ghana, brought up in the USA. This is her second book. Most of the group enjoyed the read, and even those who were less enthusiastic still found something to admire in it. It is an...
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Meeting Calendar
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