Book Club at Silver Apples

NEXT BOOK CLUB EVENT - TUESDAY 6 APRIL - more details to follow...

Silver Apples, Burton Road, West Didsbury will be hosting a Book Club, beginning Tues 2 March. The Book Club will be held every first Tuesday of the month, from 7.30pm...

This month, books up for discussion are "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold & "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D.Salinger. If you love books and literature - and, if you don't, why don't you? - then head to Silver Apples & put the literary world to rights!

To get you going, for the March Silver Apples' Book Club, see if these blurbs take your fancy -

"The Lovely Bones" : Alice Sebold

On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey...

"Catcher in the Rye" : J.D.Salinger

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent". Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his 16-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists...

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