October Read

[Frizzi]

Yes, it was a nice little group on Thursday.

I think I would like to read someting classic.So my two suggestions (we said every person could make one or two suggestions?)

- Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
- Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

[Fabiani]

Sorry for missing the last meeting....
Classics, that could be really nice.....
- Great expectations of Dickens

A not so Classic one:
- Any Human Heart of Willam Boyd.

xxx

[Laura]

If we're doing classics, how about the Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins.

[Frizzi]

Hey again,

Lindsay, what do you think. Should we set a date until we take the suggestions before we start doodle, in order to close the polls next weekend for example? Maybe we could take suggestions until Tuesday or Wednesday night, then post a doodle and close it next week-end, Saturday or Sunday? That should give everybody enough time to come up with an idea and to vote?

See you all very soon!
Frizzi

[Viviane]

Hello,

I'm a new member (and french, but I lived 4 years in England and do miss those bookgroups).
If we re doing classics I d like to suggest something from Daphne du Maurier : Rebecca or Jamaica Inn for instance.

Hope to get to know you soon !

Viviane

[Kathleen]

Hi from Arizona

Back in Paris 12 Oct so i hope to make the next meeting.

Will someone nutshell the general opinions about The Help from the meeting i was sorry to miss.

Thanks Viviane for you suggestion of Daphne du Maurier. I have been wanting to read her. Do you want to suggest one specifically so Lindsay can include it on the doodle?

Lindsay ... My suggestion for a classic is: Northanger Abby by Jane Austen. ... its one i havnt read.

See you soon,
Kathleen

[Kiwi (Karin)]

Hi everyone,
this is the first time I get to suggest actively (until now it was a bit via Frizzi ;-))
Great idea to suggest the classics - I would like to add "Wuthering Heights" (Emily Bronte) to the list.

As for the "Help" session: everyone who was there liked the book. We worked through a list of questions suggested in Gigna's book (did I spell your name correctly?? If not, my apologies....) with great discussions in the group.

Looking forward to the next book and meeting!
Kiwi (Karin)

[Viviane]

Hi again !

If I had to choose between Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, it would be Rebecca :) .

Viviane

[Caroline]

Hi,

My suggestion is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

[Rebecca]

HI,
Just thought I'd introduce myself. I'm new to Paris and will be here for 10 months. Looking forward to meeting you all and discussing a classic. I'm currently alternating one classic and then a contemporary book and am enjoying the contrast. Currently reading Sherlock Holmes - it's been fun. Otherwise, I haven't read Woman in White and would be interested in that.

Cheers!
-Rebecca

[Kathleen]

Hi Rebecca,

Welcome!

I have never read Sherlock Holmes; i would like too. The leader of my cinema discussion group (which you all may also like) says she liked the recent movie with only a few reservations but declared that Jade Law nailed Watson.

[Frizzi]

Thanks, Lindsay!

Closing Saturday morning is great (to get the book for the weekend) ...

See y'all soon,
Frizzi

[Viviane]

Hello !

Very happy Rebecca has been chosen. Less happy that my husband can t babysit that day, but I ll try to ask my regular babysitters...

Hope to see you then,

Viviane

[[deleted user]]

Hi,

I've just moved to Paris and will be here for about 9 months and I would really love to come along to the meetings. I've never read Rebecca but have seen the film with Joan Fontaine. Just finished Against A Dark Background by Iain Banks, love to read the classics aswell.

Thanks,
Becca

[Frizzi]

Hey,

Good idea to postpone the meeting a little. But since we have a long week-end (and I believe like me there are many people leaving town), do you think it best to postpone it only by 3 days to Thursday before the week-end or then the week afterwards, from Wednesday on?

See you soon :)

[Rebecca]

Week after works for me!

[Frizzi]

Doodle would be the fairest solution, I guess :)
Long live democracy ;)

[Frizzi]

Voilà
http://www.doodle.com/z4xzc6axdznxcuf7

I suggest closing the link at the latest Tuesday night.

[Frizzi]

Next meeting will be Wednesday November 2.
(sorry Kathleen)

Bonne soirée
Frizzi

[Kiwi (Karin)]

Hi Frizzi,
I suppose the meeting 2morrow is at the Imprévu (or sth similarly called), near Centre Pompidou?
CU 2morrow (I might be just a couple of min late)
Kiwi

[Viviane]

Hello,

What time is it tonight ?

Thanks

Viviane

[Caroline]

Hi all,

Have fun at the meeting tonight. I barely got started into the book so won't be coming. Hopefully will manage for next time!

[Alan]

FYI all, got here a touch early, so will take the
Big table inside near the terrace, so left down the passage at the bar :-€)