Category Archives: Student Book Club

International Student Book Club

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照片 2Do you like reading stories and meeting people from other cultures? Would you like to develop your skills in spoken English? If so, this club is for you. You will discover the pleasure of reading short books by well-known authors and sharing your ideas in a friendly, relaxed environment. The club is free to join and you will be provided with all the books we discuss on a first-come first-served basis.

If you would like to know more, please email Sara Bosley at s.l.c.bosley@lboro.ac.uk, or just come to our first meeting in the Library on 3rd February from 5pm to 6pm.

All students are welcome to the established Loughborough University Student Book Club where we discuss longer novels. For more information, please contact Sharon Reid at the Library: S.D.Reid@lboro.ac.uk, ext. 222403, or why not join the Club’s Facebook page?

Image by Ningyi Jiang, an entry in our 2012 Photography Competition.

The First Rule of the Student Book Club Is… To Tell Everyone About the Student Book Club!

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The Student Book Club meets again in February when the book up for discussion will be Chuck Palahniuk’s hard-hitting (no pun intended!) cult 1996 novel Fight Club.

The Club will be meeting at 7pm on Monday 9th February in the Library Staff Room.

Copies are presently available to borrow from the L3 desk, or alternately you can purchase a copy for £3.59 if you own a Kindle.

For more information, please contact Sharon Reid at the Library, or why not visit our Facebook page and join the discussion there?

Discover the Gone Girl with Club 790

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gone-girl-400x400-imadu8yszepkzbvdClub 790, our student book club, will be meeting up before the Christmas vacation on Monday 8th December in the Library Staff Room at 7pm. The novel chosen for discussion this time is Gillian Flynn’s best-selling thriller Gone Girl.

All copies of the book have now been borrowed for the meeting, but you can still purchase it from Amazon or from local booksellers.

For more information, please contact Sharon Reid at the Library: S.D.Reid@lboro.ac.uk, ext. 222403, or why not join the discussion on our Facebook page?

Run the Maze with Club 790

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After our very succesful (and extremely well-attended!) re-launch last month, our very own student book club, Club 790, meets up for the first time next Monday at 7pm in the Library, when the novel under discussion will be the phemonenally popular dystopian adventure The Maze Runner.

Club 790 meets up every few weeks during term time in the Library. It costs nothing to join and all books will be provided free-of-charge (although we do ask that you return the books to us after the meeting). All you have to do is turn up – bring a bite to eat along with you too, if you’d like, and we can turn it into a bit of a supper!

For more information email Sharon Reid ( S.D.Reid@lboro.ac.uk ), or why not join our Facebook page?

Club 790 Flies Again!

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Club 790 is a book club exclusively for students. If you fancy reading and chatting about great novels, enjoying home-baked refreshments and taking part in other social activities such as cinema and theatre trips, then why not come along to the official launch at 7pm on Monday 20th October in the Village Bar?

  • Special offers on food and refreshments (scampi and chips £2.95!)
  • Guest speaker: the Student Wordsmith (Sophie-Louise Hyde, Loughborough graduate)
  • Pick up a brand new copy of The Maze Runner, the first great novel we’ll be discussing
  • Exciting prize draw!
  • Leisure reading display

For catering purposes, please register your interest in attending by contacting Sharon Reid at the Library: S.D.Reid@lboro.ac.uk

Face to Little Face with Club 790

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littlefacereallybig_indexClub 790, our own student book club, meets up for the last time time this academic year next Wednesday (11th June) in the Library at 5.30pm, when the book under discussion will be Sophie Hannah’s unsettling crime thriller, Little Face.

Club 790 meets up every six weeks during term time in the Library. It costs nothing to join and all books will be provided free-of-charge (although we do ask that you return the books to us after the meeting). All you have to do is read the book and turn up!

For more information email Sharon Reid: S.D.Reid@lboro.ac.uk, or why not join our Facebook page?

Join Us for a World Book Night Celebration on Thursday

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world book nightTo mark the start of term we’re celebrating World Book Night (a little later than advertised, granted!) with a FREE book (and cake!) giveaway in the Library foyer this Thursday lunchtime between 12.30 – 2.30pm (or whenever we run out of books and cake!)

We’ll be giving away copies of five books & novels (we’ll leave their identities as a surprise until the day!) along with a selection of home-made cakes and snacks. Judging from the popularity of the displays we’ve run previously the books and cakes may go like… well, hot cakes (!), so you may want to pop along early to avoid missing out on a real treat. See you there!

Talk About Kevin with Club 790

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kevinClub 790, our own student book club, meets up for the first time this summer, this Wednesday (30th April) in the Library at 5.30pm, when the book we’ll be talking about is all about… Kevin! Or to be more precise, it’s Lionel Shriver’s award-winning drama, We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Club 790 meets up every six weeks during term time in the Library. It costs nothing to join and all books will be provided free-of-charge (although we do ask that you return the books to us after the meeting). All you have to do is read the book and turn up!

For more information email Sharon Reid: S.D.Reid@lboro.ac.uk, or why not join our Facebook page?

Self-help, and Mood-boosting books now available!

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Eleanor Trigg, Mental Health Support Team; Carol Neath, Loughborough Public Library, Sharon Reid, University Library.

The University Library, University Mental Health Support Team and Loughborough Public Library have been working together to make available a wealth of new material. Reading Well Books on Prescription is a scheme providing self-help reading based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for adults for a range of common mental health conditions including anxiety and depression. These titles can now be accessed from the University Library. Reference copies of most of the books in the scheme are located in the Leisure Reading Collection on Level 4. Take a look at this link for the range of titles available in the series. If you’d prefer to borrow a copy, multiple loanable copies are available from Leicestershire Public Libraries. Loughborough Public Library is located on Granby Street in the centre of town.

Alongside the Books on Prescription titles sit the aptly-named Reading Well Mood-boosting books, an intriguing range of uplifting novels, non-fiction and poetry. The Mood-boosting titles have all been recommended nationally by readers and reading groups. Why not come up and have a browse?

For further information about these schemes:

http://readingagency.org.uk/adults/quick-guides/reading-well/

If you enjoy reading and discussing books in a relaxed and cosy environment, come and join Club 790, the Student Book Club. Contact Sharon Reid at S.D.Reid@lboro.ac.uk or jump into the discussion via the Club’s Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/Club790

Come Fly a Kite with Club 790!

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kite runner by earthwormClub 790, our own student book club, meets once more before the Easter vacation, when the book under discussion will be Khaled Hosseini’s highly popular and thought-provoking The Kite Runner (a personal favorite of ours too!)

We’ll be meeting up in the Library on Wednesday 19th March at 5.30pm. We’ve still got some copies of the novel available to be borrowed for the meeting from the main Customer Services Desk on Level 3 – just ask a member of staff on duty there for a copy.

Club 790 meets up every six weeks during term time in the Library. It costs nothing to join and all books will be provided free-of-charge (although we do ask that you return the books to us after the meeting). All you have to do is read the book and turn up!

For more information email Sharon Reid: S.D.Reid@lboro.ac.uk, or why not join our Facebook page?

The Kite Runner cover image by Earthworm, reproduced under CC License from Flickr.