2026 LBC Reads - Welcome!
#LBC3Reads
- 24-01 - Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers
#LBCHorsforth
- 14-01 - a tale for the time being - Ruth Ozeki
- 11-02 - the gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
#LBCWSwan
- 18-01 - stone blind - Natalie Haynes
- 8-02 - death of the author - nnedi okorafor
This month has been my trifecta of book clubs - happens a few times a year.
3 book clubs.
3 books.
Instructions for a heatwave 9/10 #LBCWSwan
Heart of the wyrdwood - To be finished #LBCHorsforth
Death in a white tie - to be started #LBC3Reads
Brilliant book club this evening! Thanks #LBCHorsforth crew.
Feels like this is one for @stefarchivist.bsky.social and the #LBCHorsforth crew
Fantastic evening!
Many thanks to @rjbarker.bsky.social who joined us for #LBCHorsforth this evening.
We discussed two of his novels gods of the #wyrdwood and warlords of the wyrdwood and much more!
Yippee it’s book club this evening!
In person @ the old kings arms in Horsforth from 7:30pm for a chat with the author of gods and warlords of the wyrdwood.
Very excited for my #LBCHorsforth crew!
@rjbarker.bsky.social good morning!
Just checking that you’re still ok for #LBCHorsforth next Wednesday (12th) at the old kings arms at 7:30pm?
We’ve the first two of the wyrdwood books read.
It’s a 2 book club month this month - with additional lunch bonus meet up with #LBC3Reads
Sunday 9th, #LBCWSwan will be discussing The Minotaur takes a Cigarette Break (which I haven’t read due to house move).
Wednesday 12th, #LBCHorsforth will be discussing Cutting for Stone (am halfway thru)
2025 Reads
08/01 - The Little Liar - Mitch Albom - #LBCHorsforth
11/01 - When God was a rabbit - #LBC3Reads
12/01 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel - Suzanna Clarke - #LBCWSwan
09/02 - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill - LBCWS
12/02 - Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese - LBCH
Bouncing after tonight’s #LBCHorsforth book club 📚🦉
Brilliant chat around Gods of the Wyrdwood by local author ZRJ Barker - in fact we went over the 2 hour mark - there was just so much to say!
Strongly suspect we will all of us ‘informally’ read the second book in December over our fallow month.
Morning world.
Think today will be a quiet one as had a rotten nights sleep.
But I do have #LBCHorsforth to look forward to.
Discussing Gods of the Wyrdwood & our final Horsforth book club gathering of the year!
Will be focusing on #BookClub stuff today.
1. Finding a venue for the Christmas party
2. Getting the books read
3. Staring into the abyss… whoops wrong list
Nov Reads:
#LBCWSwan - tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow - ✅
#LBCHorsforth - gods of the wyrdwood - 14%
#LBC3Reads - the memory keepers daughter
Oooh we read this for #LBCHorsforth - am curious to know what you made of it. (Won’t say anything for fear of spoilers!)
#LBC3Reads also read ‘where late the sweet birds sang’ by Kate wilhelm which sounds like it fits your criteria. I LOVED it and couldn’t stop thinking about it for weeks!
43% read of #LadyMacbeth by Ava Reid for #LBCHorsforth on Wednesday at 7:30pm! #LBCZoom
10% in and that’s just one chapter! Only 20 more to go (some are like 3 seconds long tbf)
#LBCReads #LBCHorsforth
Today I will mostly be panic reading Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid for #LBCHorsforth.
Which is on Wednesday. 😬
Interesting article and conversation linked here below.
Seems to me this is about collectibles - it’s not about books/literature/stories - so I’ve no interest, no matter how pretty. What do book clubbers think?
#LBCWSwan #LBCHorsforth ##LBC3Reads
Morning!
Reading the marriage portrait by Maggie o’farrell for #LBCHorsforth - one of the book clubs.
But can’t get Where late the sweet birds sang by Kate wilheim out of my head.
Finished it on Wednesday and loved it! So thought provoking.
That was for #LBC3Reads book club
🦉📚
#LBCHorsforth date change
We’ll be meeting at the old kings arms in Horsforth on the 25th of September 🦉📚
3 book covers and a picture of cartoon owls and other birds and animals all reading together. Book covers - stray souls; the marriage portrait; lady Macbeth
#LBCHorsforth #LeedsBookClub 🦉📖
14 August - Stray Souls - Kate Griffin - Zoom
11 September - the marriage portrait - Maggie o’farrell - F2F
9 October - lady Macbeth - Ava Reid - Zoom
Top left box - book cover for Birnam woods. Black and white in a grey background, book cover has title, author and pine trees that look to be moving - dancing? In the wind. Lower left box - LBC logo - an owl reading a book on a patriot background. Right half - book cover for grass by sheri a tepper - a blue beetle on a blade of grass peers at an alien looking city - with a space ship lifting off in the foreground.
2 #BookClubs this week 📚💙
9th June - LBC White Swan - 6pm - In Person #LBCWSwan
Birnam Woods - Eleanor Catton
12th June - LBC Horsforth - 7:30pm - Zoom
Grass - Sheri Tepper
#NowReading Grass for #LBCHorsforth
Speaking of, we are ready to shape a dragons breath for #LBCHorsforth and that’s right up the YA, progressive #SFF street.
Awesome book club night!
Had an awesome time with the #LBCHorsforth crew as they described Life Ceremony by Sayaka murata to me.
It sounds BONKERS but possibly also brilliant. #SciFi #SpeculativeFiction #Books 💙📚
One for the good folks of #LBCHorsforth to check out - this counterculture guru gent was mentioned in the cheese book!
Nicholas Saunders
HT to @chrisnickson2.bsky.social
Morning all,
Starting my first book club read of the year - Smoke & Mirrors by Neil Gaiman for #LBCHorsforth on Wednesday.
It’s a re-read & a delight - great start to the #BookClubbing year. 📚💙
Book choices for 2024
#LBCHorsforth
17/01 - F2F - Smoke & Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
21/02 - Zoom - Life Ceremony - Sayaka Murata
#LBCWSwan
21/01 - Camp Damascus - chuck tingle
11/02 - Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy
Excellent book club last night. Such a joy to chat books with awesome people (though the lack of chips nearly derailed the entire evening. We do like our chips). Also proper #SciFi.
Thanks to the #LBCHorsforth crew.
Next up, #LBCWSwan on Sunday.
It’s the beginning of the end…of this years #BookClubs!
Tonight #LBCHorsforth is meeting up at 7:30pm at the old kings arms to discuss Artemis by Andy Weir.
Into our final three for 2023!
