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6 February 2025 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

Creating a Book Club Journal

I’ve been on a roll lately creating a couple of journals that are not only creative to make but also a lot of fun. Recently I made a Reading Journal that I could use to write notes every time I read with the intention of selling it on Amazon. However I keep delaying putting it […]

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3 October 2024 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

Looking Forward To Book Club Tonight

It’s a bit hilarious to think that the highlight of this week will be Book Club. We are both looking forward to it as an event not to be missed! Why? Well, the book this month was Australian author, Christos Tsiolkas new book “The In-Betweeners”. For anyone who knows his writing, well you can understand […]

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21 September 2024 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

Our Book Club Author Event

This year I started a Book Club I’ve called Birdies, Bogies and Books at my golf club. Its one of the many clubs (other than golf) that members can become involved with and as I love to read and share my love of reading, I created the group, curate the book list and then run […]

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28 August 2024 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

Vladivostock Circus Book Review

I love the writing of Elisa Shua Dusapin who is a French Korean author. I read Pachinko Parlour this year that set me off on a love affair reading all her books as well as exploring Korean and Japanese books, food and culture. I wanted to read her latest novel Vladivostock Circus which was all […]

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31 October 2023 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

Birdies, Bogies & Books: The Bookclub I’ve Started

A couple of weeks ago, I asked if my golf club could promote an idea I had in their newsletter for the members. It was a book club for our golf club. Our golf club has different clubs within it for members to socialise. There’s pilates, card games, charity events and lots more….but there’s no […]

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26 December 2019 by Helen Blunden

The Expertise Economy – Book Club

Started the Expertise Economy by @kellylpalmer today with big thanks to @srjf for pointing me out to it. It’s my Christmas reading. So far, so good! pic.twitter.com/oRG8yRNDSy — Helen Blunden #AlwaysBeLearning????? (@ActivateLearn) December 24, 2019 The following are my responses to Simon Fogg’s (@srjf) book club questions for The Expertise Economy by David Blake and […]

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