Book Club, Movie Club, Podcast Club - all in one!

Hi everyone

The book, film and podcast for June are listed below. Hope you see you at Poppy's to share our thoughts.

Book: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.

Movie: Whiplash (2014).
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Available on Netflix and other streaming services.

Podcast: The Lightning Struck Pianist, Extremes, Season 2, Espisode 7 Tony Cicoria never cared for music. Not until he was struck by lightning, and woke mysteriously obsessed with classical music. In this episode we talk to Tony about his unique journey as a concert pianist, and his debut composition, ""Lightning Sonata"".

Hi everyone, suggestions for July below.

We will meet inside at Poppy's Cafe at the War Memorial.

Book: The Wattle Island Book Club, Sandie Docker, 2021

A moving and heart-warming story about taking risks and finding a new lease on life. Spanning over seventy years, we follow the lives of Anne and Grace in a poignant journey through love, grief, and hope on a cosy island, while also unravelling the mystery behind the town’s historic book club. Why did the book club suddenly end? And why is the town staying silent about it?

Movie: Pride, 2014, Dir Matthew Warchus
A rousing and warm-hearted crowd-pleaser, Pride tells the incredible true story of the unlikely alliance between a striking Welsh mining community and a group of gay and lesbian activists in Eighties Britain
Available on ABS iView
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/pride/video/ZW3412A001S00

Podcast: The Imperfects, Dr Emily - Joy Decision 21/4/24
In this episode, our resident psychologist Dr Em explores the experience of Joy. What is it and how we can tap into it. We learn how mobilising joy is and how infectious and connecting it can be. Because as Dr Em explains, we are often surrounded by joy in our everyday lives, but don’t pause long enough to see it.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6dQLVMfoa59HSGsD246HdD

As always - the content is just a suggestion, so feel free to come along if you just want to chat about movies, books and podcasts.