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English book club in Essen
8pm Friday 5.Dec.2008 @ Le Chat Noir
Hmm ... looks like I am going to have to bail as well due to the fact I have laryngitis and can't speak at all. A couple of others have already cancelled so it looks like it will be a small group tonight. (Am disappointed not to be going as I have been looking forward to this all week ).
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An update for all those who weren't able to make it last Friday. We had a good night and even managed to get a table after about an hour of drinking at the very small bar. (Unfortunately,we forgot to make a reservation.) Pelayo is very popular but deservedly so - good service, food and wine. We were six people including one new member. 3 of us had finished the book and I believe that all found it a very good read. For obvious reasons to those who read Mr. Pip, it was suggested that we take Great Expectations as our next book, as many had never read it. We agreed to wait though and perhaps take it over the Christmas break, since it is a long read. Instead we agreed on "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys. The next meeting is on 3 October, German Re-unification day. We could repeat Palayo if we book this time..
thanks for the info - sorry I couldn't get there this time round I was certainly thinking of you all - I think the book suggestions are great - especially the dickens - I have been yearning for something classic
Oct 3 sounds good to me - slap in the middle of the holidays!
Oct 3 sounds good to me - slap in the middle of the holidays!
Hey Im Australian and living right next to Ruttenscheider Straße. Im very interested in joining the bookclub because Ive been in Germany 4 months now and my girlfriend is still the only competent English speaker I know!!
Let me in on the details for October 3rd... thats very soon so if not I suppose I'll just try to show up?
Let me in on the details for October 3rd... thats very soon so if not I suppose I'll just try to show up?
just show up - that's fine - we don't even mind if you haven't read the book
and males are very welcome (if a little outnumbered!!!)
(I'm assuming that Boozm - is somthing to do with drinking and not to do with bras)
and males are very welcome (if a little outnumbered!!!)
(I'm assuming that Boozm - is somthing to do with drinking and not to do with bras)
Is tonight's meeting at the Palayo at 8:30?
Hi Stever - the meeting starts at 8:00 but you are welcome to come along at 8:30.
Oh and those of you who were at Pelayo the last time will be pleased to know that we have booked this time around so there shouldn't be any standing around waiting to swoop up a table.
Oh and those of you who were at Pelayo the last time will be pleased to know that we have booked this time around so there shouldn't be any standing around waiting to swoop up a table.
Enjoy this ye bookies. It's by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone.
Nice sentence flow? Nice characterization?
QUOTE
Until the Alaska governor actually ascended to the podium that night, I was convinced that John McCain had made one of the all-time campaign season blunders, that he had acted impulsively and out of utter desperation in choosing a cross-eyed political neophyte just two years removed from running a town smaller than the bleacher section at Fenway Park. It even crossed my mind that there was an element of weirdly self-destructive pique in McCain's decision to cave in to his party's right-wing base in this fashion, that perhaps he was responding to being ordered by party elders away from a tepid, ideologically promiscuous hack like Joe Lieberman -- reportedly his real preference -- by picking the most obviously unqualified, doomed-to-fail joke of a Bible-thumping buffoon. As in: You want me to rally the base? Fine, I'll rally the base. Here, I'll choose this rifle-toting, serially pregnant moose killer who thinks God lobbies for oil pipelines. Happy now?
Nice sentence flow? Nice characterization?
Did you decide when the next meeting is?
The next meeting will take place at 8pm on the 7.November.2008. The book to read for the meeting is: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan. We have not decided on a venue yet but as soon as we have one picked out, I will post the details here. By the way, thanks to the people who made it along to Pelayo last Friday night and I look forward to seeing everyone next month!
I had a good time at the last meeing and I'm looking forward to the next meeting. Sorry I couldn't drink like the rest of you but I had to drive on the Autobahn. I was wondering though how many bottles were drunk before I arrived late. Very charming you all were, indeed. I wouldn't have changed a thing.
I've already been reading reviews of Loving Frank on amazon. Who would give a child the name Mamah?
I've already been reading reviews of Loving Frank on amazon. Who would give a child the name Mamah?
Changed your title for you for November. Anyone with more than 100 posts can do it.
In choosing a venue, may I weigh in for a quiet place, or rather not as loud as Palayo, for purposes of hearing and being heard?
What does post 62 mean? Book title?
Oh, I see. The title of the thread. What about the time too? 8pm instead of 8:30.
Steve - good ideas - a quieter place would indeed be good - I could hardly hear the person sitting next to me!!! and 8pm is definitely the go as well ...
the book is readily available through Amazon.de and cheaper than the link might indicate. I'm hoping for rain on the weekend so that I can make a start on it ;-)
the book is readily available through Amazon.de and cheaper than the link might indicate. I'm hoping for rain on the weekend so that I can make a start on it ;-)
Hi,
I am new the this forum, having just got a job working in Essen 1 week a month. I would be interested in joining such a club if it's set up. I know absolutely no-one in Essen at the moment!
Mark
I am new the this forum, having just got a job working in Essen 1 week a month. I would be interested in joining such a club if it's set up. I know absolutely no-one in Essen at the moment!
Mark
Mark - all are welcome - its great if you have read the book but certainly still okay if you haven't .(though there is still time - Loving Frank) .. I'm guessing a venue will be organised - we tend to bar hop - every month something new, in search of the perfect venue. See you then
This is just an update on the venue we have chosen for next week: we will be heading back to Le Chat Noir (Brigittastr. 22, Essen-Rüttenscheid) for November's meeting. Can't guarantee that it won't be noisy but I think it should be a little quieter than Pelayo Oh and Stever - we will be starting at 8 rather than 8.30 (though people are welcome to show up later than that of course).
Looking forward to seeing everyone next week!
Oh and Stever - we will be starting at 8 rather than 8.30 (though people are welcome to show up later than that of course).Looking forward to seeing everyone next week!
for those wishing to come along, the venue (as I understand it) is Le Chat Noir
Nixe - can you confirm please? as much as for any newbies who might like to come along
thanks!
Nixe - can you confirm please? as much as for any newbies who might like to come along
thanks!
Yes, Le Chat Noir is our venue for this Friday. The address is in my last post (#69) for those who are joining us for the first time. See you all on Friday!
Hello, we're two new Australians in Essen, looking to meet up with other English speakers for drinks, book club, whatever.
I take it we missed a meeting on Friday. What's happening next?
I take it we missed a meeting on Friday. What's happening next?
Hi,
I'm also working in Essen this week and looking to meet up with English - or Ozzy - speakers! for drinks etc...
Mark
I'm also working in Essen this week and looking to meet up with English - or Ozzy - speakers! for drinks etc...
Mark
Next meeting will be in December - though the details are vague ... Though the book chosen is 'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman' a collection of short stories by Murakami
Thanks to everyone who made it to the last meeting at Le Chat Noir. It was a nice evening; the food, wine and conversation were all good, it was not too loud to hear the person alongside you and the restaurant was mostly smoke free (well, until 10.30pm at any rate). The next book club meeting will be taking place again at Le Chat Noir on the 5.Dec.2008 at 8pm and as callalacorks mentioned in her post: the book to read for the meet is Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami.
Hi I have recently moved to Essen from the UK (Via some time spent in Barcelona!!) and have just found this website, and came across the forum. I don't know anyone here yet and was wondering if there are still meetings for the book club or any other social activities I could join, thanks.
Hi JaneH. Welcome to Essen. In answer to your question: yes there are still meetings for the book club - the next one will be taking place on the 5th of December at the wine bar/restaurant Le Chat Noir, Brigittastr. 22 Essen. Feel free to join us. We are always happy to see new faces at our meetings!
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