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
Just in from discussing Maggie zO’farrells instructions for a heatwave. For #LBCWSwan.
Fantastic if somewhat garbled a chat!
Next time, we need a round table structure so it’s easier to hear!
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
#NowListening to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (36 hours long!) & it’s very good!
Narrated by Richard Armitage.
Do enjoy dipping into the worlds of Susanna Clarke - glorious turn of phrase, pacey writing & 3 dimensional characters!
#LBCWSwan #BookClub
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Such a lovely #BookClub this evening for #LBCWSwan discussing tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow by Gabrielle zevin.
As a whole - we loved it - 8’s & higher from everyone.
Had a great chat for a full two hours tho still didn’t manage to cover everything!
There were also chocolates & home baked treats!
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
Finished #TomorrowAndTomorrowAndTomorrow for #LBCWSwan and it’s one of those books that has left me feeling bereft because it ended.
A wonderful book. Can’t wait to discuss it! 🦉📚
Started & enjoying #TheHeroes by Joe Abercrombie.
I’ve been listening to the audiobook for #LBCWSwan on Sunday.
Have managed about 10 hours and somehow still have 250* still to go!
*13 but still! It’s an epic but come on!
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
Lovely to see treats being shared at #LBCWSwan - one of the book clubs I ‘run’ (have missed the last few due to life).
Cakes and treats go all the way back to our first ever book club in Arcadia so it’s a delight to have that restarted*
*hoping it continues not *purely* out of wanting treats
It’s book club day! 🦉📖
#LBCWSwan will be meeting this evening at 6pm at the White Swan in Leeds city centre.
We will be discussing the gallows pole by Benjamin myers.
I see we, I’ll be travelling that day but the magnificent Liam (@callmeliam.bsky.social) is stepping in to host.
3 book covers and bespectacled owl reading a book. Book covers - storyland; the gallows pole; elektra
#LBCWSwan #LeedsBookClub 🦉📖
14/07 Storyland - Amy Jeff
11/08 The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
08/09 Electra - Jennifer saint
Doing a #readalong of Dune Messiah with my bestie; starting story land by Amy Jeff’s for #LBCWSwan & dipping into cosy comfort read the Queen of Poisons by Robert thorogood when the world gets a bit much.
You?
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
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.
