Rainbow Reading Group

The Rainbow Reading Group is an LGBT Reading Group, sponsored by Croydon Library and Croydon Area Gay Society (CAGS).

We meet at 2:30pm in Croydon Central Library, Katharine Street (Level One) on the last Thursday of each month (in December it's the second Thursday). See dates below.

Each month we discuss the book we've been reading, and take away copies of the next month's book (chosen by the group).

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Our next meeting:

Our December meeting will be on the 15th, to avoid the Christmas/New Year period, and will be an "Open House" session for members to discuss their favourite books and put forward suggestions for 2012.

Our selection for 2012:

• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (26 January)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (23 February - a special event for LGBT History Month, with a vist from RNIB)
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (29 March)
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (26 April)
• The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp (31 May)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (28 June)
• Maurice by E M Forster (26 July)
• The Colour Purple by Alice Walker (30 August)
• The Rainbow by D H Lawrence (27 September)
• At my Mother's Knee and Other Low Joints by Paul O'Grady (25 October)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger (29 November)
• "Open Discussion": favourite authors and books (13 December)

We’ve already read:

• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
• The Bird Keeper by Issy Festing
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
• A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
• Oranges are not the only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• My Lives by Edmund White
• Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Gulf between us by Geraldine Bedell

Interested in reading, discussing books, and making new friends?

Come along!

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Contact Ray, 020 8777 0107
or e-mail info@rainbowreadinggroup.org.uk

for other events in Croydon, see www.lgbt-croydon.org.uk/events