{"id":6092,"date":"2013-08-07T08:57:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2013-08-07T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T09:40:51","slug":"photo-caption-calling-all-book-worms-to-the-open-house-book-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/08\/photo-caption-calling-all-book-worms-to-the-open-house-book-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling All Book Worms To The Open House Book Clubs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Clare Foreman, Leanne Briggs and Donna Wilson, members of local book club \u201cReading Between The Wines\u201d swotting up ahead of The Open House Festival Book Clubs which will be taking place in Bangor throughout the month of August.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6093\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Open-House-Book-Clu1602B93.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6093\" title=\"Open House Book Clu#1602B93\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Open-House-Book-Clu1602B93.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calling All Book Worms To The Open House Book Clubs!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bangor\u2019s book lovers are in for a treat this August as The Open House Festival will be holding three Book Club events as part of their action-packed festival programme. Come and join these special festival book clubs where a sparkling literary panel from the local community will read from and discuss hand-picked books. Read the books (or don\u2019t read the books!), then share your views with us over a beverage or two!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first Book Club will be taking place in The Hutch at <strong>The Rabbit Rooms<\/strong> on <strong>Friday, August 9<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong> at 7.30pm and the featured books will be \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d by F Scott Fitzgerald, \u201cGive Me Everything You Have\u201d by James Lasdun and \u201cThe Hive\u201d by Gill Hornby. The panel for this event will include BBC broadcaster, Cherrie McIlwaine, journalist and political blogger Nick Garbutt, teacher and avid reader Alison Belch and the panel will be chaired by author and screen writer, Colin Bateman.\u00a0 Tickets are \u00a35, bookable in advance.<\/p>\n<p>The next event is on <strong>Friday, 16<sup>th<\/sup>August,<\/strong> also taking place at <strong>The Rabbit Rooms <\/strong>and in preparation for this Book Club, you are asked to read \u201cGone Girl\u201d by Gillian Flynn, \u201cMy Animals And Other Family\u201d by Clare Balding and \u201cHow To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia\u201d by Mohsin Hamid. This event will be chaired by BBC correspondent Stephen Walker and the panel will include actress Nuala McKeever, broadcaster Joe Lindsay and journalist and blogger Nick Garbutt. Doors are open at 7.30pm and tickets cost \u00a35, bookable in advance.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, <strong>Fealty\u2019s Bar<\/strong> will be hosting a Book Club on <strong>Monday 26<sup>th<\/sup> August<\/strong> and the chosen book is \u201cOn The Road\u201d by Jack Kerouac. This event is free and starts at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>These events are a wonderful opportunity to discuss books with other readers and literary experts so get reading and don\u2019t miss out!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clare Foreman, Leanne Briggs and Donna Wilson, members of local book club \u201cReading Between The Wines\u201d swotting up ahead of The Open House Festival Book Clubs which will be taking place in Bangor throughout the month of August. Bangor\u2019s book lovers are in for a treat this August as The Open House Festival will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/08\/photo-caption-calling-all-book-worms-to-the-open-house-book-clubs\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}