📚🚶 The November Webcast
An introductory discussion + difficult reading from The Past is Myself
Dear walking book clubbers,
I can’t stop thinking about this book in these new, troubling times. There is so much we can learn from it, don’t you think?
I talk more about it in quite an emotional webcast this month - see below, and I really can’t wait to discuss The Past is Myself with you at our meet ups, THIS FRIDAY in Regent’s Park, SUNDAY on Hampstead Heath and NEXT MONDAY on Zoom. Scroll down to find the booking links.
In case you missed it, you can find my introduction to the book, including discussion points and links to explore it further here:
Our November The Past is Myself events
Please note that for the benefit of your fellow walkers, you need to have read the book before coming along to a walking book club. If you’ve not read the book, you are very welcome to join the zoom instead.
Emily’s Regent’s Park Walking Book Club: Friday 15th November 11-12.45pm, setting off from Daunt Books, 84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW, £8-15 ***Please note the early start time this month!***
Emily’s Hampstead Heath Walking Book Club: Sunday 17th November, 11.30-1pm, setting off from Daunt Books Hampstead, 51 South End Road, NW3 2QB, £8-15
Emily’s Zoom Book Club: Monday 18th November, 8-9pm, £1-15
Buy The Past is Myself from Daunt Books HERE and receive 10% off using the code WBC at checkout, or just tell them you’re in Emily’s Walking Book Club if you’re buying it in the shop.
You can buy the beautiful Slightly Foxed hardback edition HERE with 10% off using the code EMILY24.
The November Webcast
I hope you enjoy a chat on my sofa - complete with glimpses of Alfie’s waggling ears - about this month’s book, The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg. I didn’t anticipate getting emotional, and so I will put a TRIGGER WARNING here for anyone who is - like me - a little set off by the Holocaust: you may want to skip through the reading bit of the video.
If you like the webcast, I’d be grateful if you could like or comment on it over on YouTube so the algorithm knows we matter and more people can discover our books and book club. In case you’d like to see more of these little videos, you can find them about all our books from the past few years on my YouTube channel: @emilyrhodeswriter.
December
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
In this classic children’s novel, dearly loved by grown-ups too, we follow the lives of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they grow up in Massachusetts against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Beginning with an unforgettable Christmas, we join them for ice skating, piano-playing, writing, hair-cutting (!), love affairs and devastating illness. It is a delight to revisit this beloved children’s story as an adult, while also taking note of the religiosity and gender politics at play.
As Jo says, in the novel’s opening line: “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.” So for our Christmas events, we invite you to pick a book from your own shelves, wrap it up and swap it with another member in our Emily’s Walking Book Club literary Secret Santa.
Children who have read the book are very welcome to attend this one!
Intrigued? Watch the beautiful 2019 film adaptation - HERE’s the trailer.
In Regent’s Park: Friday 13th December, 12-1.45pm, setting off from Daunt Books, 84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW, £8-15
On Hampstead Heath: Sunday 15th December, 11.30-1pm, setting off from Daunt Books Hampstead, 51 South End Road, NW3 2QB, £8-15
On Zoom: Monday 16th December, 8-9pm, £1-15
Buy Little Women from Daunt Books HERE and receive 10% off using the code WBC at checkout, or just tell them you’re in Emily’s Walking Book Club if you’re buying it in the shop.
Happy reading,
Emily