Great bookclub meeting last Thursday and we even had some new people join in. We discussed our book for the month "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe" by Penelope Lively and watched a spooky book trailer for it!

Ghost of Thomas Kempe Book Trailer

Here are some comments about the book, some people really liked it but others thought it was a bit old fashioned and not scary enough !

"I thought it was interesting , I would not have picked it out myself by the cover but it was really good, I would give it 8 out of 10 because I don't really like old fashioned books"

"I thought it was interesting because I really wanted to see what happened to James"

"The book is interesting, it has posh words, you will keep turning the page"

It was an old fashioned surprising book. It was about 17% scary and ghost was sort of a stalker"

"I thought the book was kind of interesting but I didn't like how the author put the words and that it was too old fashioned for my type but other than that.."

We also talked about books that we have just read recently, two people had just read "Diary of  a Wimpy Kid"
"I thought it was a good book, not too bad, it was good enough. It was interesting enough."

"I like diary of a wimpy kid because I like the way it's actually a diary and writing everyday and it looks like somebody just wrote it and he's telling every bit of his life. Because normally if you read a book it's typed, so that's why I like the books of Diary of a Wimpy Kid  "

Another favourite "Awful Auntie" by David Williams
"Awful Auntie is a very interesting story about a girl called Stella and her family own a place called

 Saxby Hall. Stella's auntie wants Saxby Hall to herself . Stella's parents die in a mysterious car accident and Stella thinks it was her auntie. Stella meets a ghost called soot and he helps her on the way"









and someone had just read "how to be a Viking" by Cresida Cowell

"I read how to be a Viking. It was a really funny book, some of it was a bit scary when they mentioned about the head being chopped off but it was still a good book!!"

Next month we are all reading a different book so we should have a really great meeting finding out about what everyone thinks of their read. We had a look at Children's Books Ireland's recommended reads booklet and everyone picked something to read from it for our next book club! If anyone missed our last meeting we have copies of recommended reads in the library so just come in and pick out a book from it, we have all the books in stock and we can reserve one for you if they are on loan