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 The General Rules: All entries must be original work that is unpublished in any other format and which has not won any other competition.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 du...

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...