Archive for May, 2008

Thoughts on Michael Cunningham’s The Hours

Rainbow Readers met up last month to dicuss The Hours by Michael Cunningham. As the novel concerns the Lesbian, Gay, Trans. and bi, not to mention literary community it seemed fitting as a choice for our book group.
The novel it’s self is structured around the lives of three women who each affect the next in [...]

Continue reading »

Rainbow Readers – Swept away at Chesil Beach

After a busy week at work picking up the threads that were left before I went away on my holiday I have finally made time to pass on my comments about Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach.
For those of you that don’t know, this isn’t an official book of the Rainbow Readers Book Groups. This was [...]

Continue reading »

The Beginnings of Rainbow Readers

Rainbow Readers is a pretty new book group on the Lancaster scene; and new for the book group scene and also the gay, lesbian, bi and trans scene. I came back to Lancaster from a stint abroad in Milan where I was surprised to find gay groups meeting up to all sorts of things; swimming, skiing, reading, [...]

Continue reading »

Is Chesil Beach on the itinerary?

This is going to be my last missive before I go cruising (don’t snigger). Now whilst some of you may think there is nothing new with a gay man going cruising, my own particular adventure does involve a huge boat, several stops in three countries around the Mediterranean and possibly a huge volume of raincoat [...]

Continue reading »