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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 is made up of 8 women.

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

The majority of 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 that this works best as it gives each group member a chance to choose a book and means that other group members get the opportunity to read a book they might not necessarily have selected for themselves.  It is also done on the understanding that if any selection is disliked by the other group members it is the book which gets criticised rather than the person who chose that book. It is also perfectly OK not to finish reading a book if you are not enjoying it.


The last 6 books we have read are:-

Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh - a story about two sisters on trial for murder and each accusing the other of having committed the crime
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre - based on the true story of an agent for the KGB who was divulging their secrets to the British and his dramatic escape from Moscow to London

The Wager by David Grann - a true story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder set on the high seas around South America in the1740s 
The Murders At Fleat House by Lucinda Riley - a murder tale concerning one dead bully and a private boarding school full of suspects
Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold - a murder mystery set in a small close knit community where an unsolved murder 20 years ago is brought to the surface when a second murder is committed and everyone in the community has something to hide
James by Percival Everett - set in 1861 this tells the tale of 2 men journeying along the Mississippi river towards the promise of reaching the elusive free states

The Group has already chosen the next 4 books which 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 entails

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

Our next choice of books will be made at our June meeting.

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