According to Monday’s edition of The Guardian newspaper, now is the perfect time to start a book club at work. Take a look here to find out more.
The groups running across Bibby Line are a little different from those mentioned in the article, in that you don’t have to read a book in your [...]
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April 7, 2009
If you only do one thing this week, come along to a reading group…
February 27, 2009
Poem of the Week
Earlier this week, I was asked by one Get Into Reading group member why I love poetry. I am unable to provide a satisfactory answer to this question. To me, loving poetry is as unforced and natural as breathing. I don’t have to work to enjoy it; although like all readers, I do sometimes struggle [...]
February 6, 2009
Poem of the Week
Today’s Poem of the Week has a Valentine theme as I will not be around next week to post a poem closer to the day itself. I have chosen ‘i carry your heart with me’ by the American poet e.e.cummings. Several Get Into Reading groups across the company have read this poem in conjunction with [...]
January 22, 2009
Chinese whispers
Bob Holcroft is a regular attendee of the Get Into Reading group in Liverpool Head Office. He is currently on a business trip in China. One of his colleagues there is friends with a Chinese poet, Yu Bing, who has had a book of her poems published. Yu Bing has kindly allowed one of her [...]
December 18, 2008
A Christmas Carol
Since the beginning of December, my reading groups in Liverpool, Manchester, Leicester, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Banbury have been reading a selection of Christmassy poems and stories to raise everyone’s festive spirits. One of the most popular texts has been A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens in 1843. This book tells the tale of miserly Mr [...]
November 28, 2008
(A previously ambivalent) Ella Jolly encounters royalty
Yesterday, whilst dashing from Banbury train station to Marks and Spencer to buy some delicious treats for BLG reading groups (the cakes alone are a good reason to come to a reading group!), I stumbled across the Queen.
The white-haired lady, immaculate in scarlet coat and hat, walked elegantly through an enthusiastic, flag-waving crowd. She [...]
November 28, 2008
Poem of the Week
Today’s Poem of the Week is brought to us by Bob Holcroft, from Bibby Ship Management in Liverpool. Bob writes:
“As you know, I am not a “poetry person”, BUT may I suggest this?…it reminds me of the speed of modern life even though it was written some years ago.”
Leisure
What is this life if, full of [...]
November 11, 2008
Why not Get Into Reading, too?
Every so often, I am lucky enough to receive some truly lovely emails from people working across BLG. Last Tuesday, in response to my question ‘what does the reading group do for you?’, Barbara Lewis (from the BLG office in Liverpool) sent me a wonderfully enthusiastic endorsement of the Reader-in-Residence project at Bibby Line Group:
From: [...]
November 7, 2008
Poem of the Week
Later this afternoon, Bibby Line Group Head Office in Liverpool hosts the official launch of The Reader Organisation. Founded at the University of Liverpool in 1997, The Reader Organisation became a charitable trust during 2008. Our aim is to bring about a Reading Revolution. For us, literature is a force for social good and personal [...]
October 9, 2008
Book club? No, it’s a reading group…
Mark Connors, from Bibby Line Group Head Office in Liverpool, is a stalwart member of the Wednesday group in Liverpool. He very kindly writes to share his experiences of Get Into Reading.
“I have now been with Bibby Line Group for a little over four months. It was shortly after joining that Ella came into [...]
