Friday, November 27, 2009
November book
The Staff Book Group book for November was Enderby by Sebastian Faulks. Two members managed to complete the book, but everyone else either ran out of time or found the main character so unsympathetic that they gave up.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Anita Shreeve
We have just acquired a new set of Anita Shreeve novels for senior fiction. Should be popular.
Senior Reading Group
At the last meeting, we talked about "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk. It was Sharon's favourite book and she tried to persuade us all to read it. We also talked about Terry Ptatchett's Witches Abroad, which is a great introduction to Discworld.
Monday, November 02, 2009
October Book
The staff book group read Netherland by Joseph O'Neill during October. Most people failed to complete the book. It is a bit different from our usual choices. It is set in New York and concerns a Dutch investment analyst whose marriage is failing and who gets involved in playing cricket, very much a minority sport in the US. Those who completed the book were not very enthusiastic about it.
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