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Cupar & District

Book Group 2 - Reading Companions

Status:Active, open to new members
Contact:
When: Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:45 am
3rd Wednesday in the month
Venue: Cupar Old Parish Centre

The contact for this group is Jane Masters. Jane can be reached by clicking on the blue underscored enquiry link above.

We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 10:45 am in the Old Parish Centre in Cupar. The group presently comprises 9 women but men are very welcome to join.

We are a very friendly group and at meetings we discuss the author and book we have just read as well as other books group members have read recently which they ‘d recommend. Some books are hits, others misses and some receive a mixed reaction from group members.

Most books selected so far have been fictional but we have read some factual books too and anything is possible

Each member of the group takes it in turn to choose a book for the group to read the following month. We have found this works best as it gives each group member an opportunity to choose a book and means that other group members get the chance to read a book they might not necessarily have chosen for themselves. It is also done on the understanding that if any selection is disliked by group members it's the book which gets criticised rather than the person who chose the book. It is also perfectly OK not to finish reading a book you are not enjoying.


The last 6 books we have read are:-

The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell - a true story about a penguin rescued by the author from an oil slick and the effect the penguin has on the lives of those he meets


Death At La Fenice by Donna Leon - when the conductor of La Fenice opera house is murdered during a performance of La Traviata a murder mystery set in Venice entail 

Music In The Dark by Sally Magnusson - the story of a young girl trying to build a new life in a tenement flat in Rutherglen after being forcibly removed from her Highland home during the Highland Clearances 

The Players by Minette Walters - historical fiction set in 1685 England during the Bloody Assizes it tells the story of those rebels trying to avoid capture and those who help them 

The Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald - a coming of age story which is a debut novel exploring the power of identity, community and the Scottish working class and 

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - a post colonial, feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre which reimagines "the mad woman in the attic" who was Mr Rochester's first wife 

The Group has already chosen the next 6 books which are:-

A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle - a memoir chronicling an English couples move to a 200 year old farmhouse in southern France  

Songbirds by Christy Lefteri - a story following the mysterious disappearance of a Sri Lankan domestic worker in Cyprus and what the search for her by her employer and lover reveals 

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead - a story telling the life of a remarkable woman pilot who disappears while trying to circle the globe in 1950 and of the Hollywood actress who 50 years later tries to probe the mysteries of the missing pilot's life 

The Hawk Is Dead by Peter James -a murder mystery which takes the police detective trying to solve it deep into Buckingham Palace 

Educated by Tara Westover - a memoir chronicling the author's journey from an isolated childhood in rural Idaho with no formal education to earning a PhD at Cambridge University and  

The Bones of You by Debbie Howell - a captivating psychological thriller which starts with the disappearance of a teenager from the idyllic village where she grew up

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    Twice-monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:00 pm
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    Status: Active
    On Fridays
    3rd Friday in the month, 11 am to 1 pm
  • Art Discovery
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
    Third Monday of month
  • Art History
    Status: Waiting list
    On Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm
    3rd Tuesday of the month
  • Art Practical
    Status: Active
    On Fridays
    Alternate Fridays all day
  • Badminton
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Wednesday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:00 pm
  • BATS (Badminton & Short Tennis)
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Tuesday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:00 pm
  • Board Games
    Status: Waiting list
    Monthly on Friday mornings 10:30 am
    2nd Friday each month
  • Book Group 1 - The Gallus Readers
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
  • Book Group 2 - Reading Companions
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:45 am
    3rd Wednesday in the month
  • Book Group 3 - Page Turners
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm
    First Monday of the month
  • Bridge
    Status: Waiting list
    Weekly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm
  • Bridge 2
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Wednesday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:30 pm
  • Calligraphy
    Status: Waiting list
    Fortnightly on Tuesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
  • Canasta
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Friday mornings 10:30 am
    Third Friday of the month
  • Classical Music (mostly) Ceres
    Status: Active
    Fortnightly on Tuesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
  • Classical Music (mostly) Letham
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
  • Craft
    Status: Active
    On Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
    2nd & 4th Tues in month
  • Creative Writing (CW1)
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am-11:30 am
    3rd Wednesday each month
  • Creative Writing 2 (CW2)
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
    First Thursday of the month
  • Cryptic Crosswords 1 Across
    Status: Waiting list
    Fortnightly on Monday mornings 10:30 am
    Every 2nd Monday
  • Cryptic Crosswords 2 Clueless
    Status: Active
    Fortnightly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am
    Every 2nd Thursday
  • Cryptic Crosswords 3 Decoders!
    Status: Active
    Fortnightly on Monday mornings 10:15 am-11:30 am
  • Cycling
    Status: Active
    On Monday mornings 10:00 am
    Twice monthly on the first and third Monday mornings
  • Dance
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Monday afternoons 1:45 pm-2:45 pm
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    Status: Active
    Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:30 pm
    Last Mon of each month
  • Film/theatre Outings
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Friday mornings 10:30 am-12:00 pm
    First Friday in the month
  • French 1 - La Pause Café
    Status: Full
    Weekly on Monday mornings 10:00 am
  • French 2 (Conversation)
    Status: Waiting list
    Fortnightly on Monday mornings 10:00 am
  • French 2a (Conversation) Les Bavardes
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Friday mornings
    10.30 am - 12 noon
  • French 3 (Improvers)
    Status: Waiting list
    Weekly on Monday mornings
    Weekly 11 to 1 pm
  • French 4 (Beginners)
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
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    Status: Active
    Monthly on Monday afternoons 1:30 pm
    Last Monday of the month
  • Introduction to Poetry
    Status: Active
    Fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm
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    Status: Active
    Weekly on Wednesday mornings
    Weekly 10.30 - 12.00
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    Status: Active
    Weekly on Tuesday afternoons
    2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
  • Italian Intermediate
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
  • Jazz Appreciation
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
    3rd Thurs of each month
  • Local History
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Friday afternoons
    Last Friday of each month at 2 pm
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    Status: Waiting list
    Monthly on Friday afternoons 12:30 pm
    2nd Friday of each month
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    Status: Active
    Monthly on Thursdays
    Fourth week of the month
  • Philosophy 1
    Status: Waiting list
    Monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm
    2nd Thursday of the month
  • Philosophy 2
    Status: Active
    On Thursdays 10:00 am-11:15 am
    Monthly on 3rd Thursdays
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    Status: Active
    Monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
    4th Thursday of the month
  • Poetry Reading
    Status: Active
    Fortnightly on Friday afternoons
  • Singing for Fun
    Status: Active
    Fortnightly on Wednesday mornings 10:30 am-12:00 pm
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    Status: Waiting list
    Fortnightly on Tuesday mornings 11:00 am-1:00 pm
    2nd & 4th Tues in month
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    Status: Waiting list
    Fortnightly on Thursday afternoons 2:30 pm
    2nd & 4th Thursday of the month
  • Swallows Walking
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am
    1st Wed of each month
  • Swallows 2 Walking
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:00 am
    3rd Thurs in each month
  • Swallows 3 Short walks
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:00 am
    1st Thurs of month
  • Swallows 4 Longer Walks
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am
    4th Wednesday of month
  • Table Tennis 2
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Friday afternoons 12:00 pm-2:00 pm
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    Status: Waiting list
    Weekly on Friday afternoons
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    Status: Full
    Weekly on Friday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
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    Status: Active
    Fortnightly on Wednesdays 10:30 am-12:00 pm
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    Status: Waiting list
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