Great discussion last night

Just to let you know the blog received 193 page visits yesterday, mostly in the UK , New York and elsewhere in the US,  also a couple from Tunisia and Singapore. Hope everyone enjoyed discussing Brian’s book.

Confessions of an Ordinary Boy – Brian Centrone

Our next book is ‘Confessions of an Ordinary Boy’ by Brian Centrone. You can join the discussion from 8pm UK time / 3pm EST.

Some guidelines here.

“Are you sure you’re going to be all right?” my mother asked, releasing me from her death grip.
“I’ll be fine, Mom, I swear.”
“Come on, Christine, let’s leave the boy in peace now,” my father pressed.
“Well…ok. If you need anything, anything at all, you’ll call?”
“Yup.”
“Or e-mail?”
“Yup.”
My father laid his heavy hand down on my shoulder. “See ya, Son,” he nodded his head, then hesitated. “Be good,” was all he managed to get out, removing his hand and placing it on my mother’s arm.
“I will, Dad,” I promised. I looked at my parents as they hovered in the doorway and wondered if I was actually capable of living up to all their expectations. Especially when the expectations I had for myself were far from those imposed upon me by my mother and father. “Bye,” I waved, edging them on to take the plunge.
One more look of despair from my mother and a forceful tug on her arm by my father and they were gone.

Next book in a week

We’ll be discussing the young adult novel ‘Confessions of an Ordinary Boy’ by Brian Centrone from Monday 8th November, 8-9pm UK time. Feel free to watch, comment and pass on. Some guidelines here.  And now’s the time to join up if you want next month’s book.

See you then x

Thanks…and how did it go?

Thanks to everyone who joined in or watched the discussion yesterday.  I think it went well and was really interesting. The discussion on the book is still open on the post below if anyone wants to comment. This is just to ask for comments on how the format worked. I was approving the comments as they came in – I was a bit slow with this to start off with, but then worked out a quicker method! An hour on a weekday evening seemed a good time (most people are currently in the UK, but we could review if this changes) – are there any thoughts on this, was it difficult for anyone? Comments welcome on anything to do with the format.

The next book to be discussed will be ‘Confessions of an Ordinary Boy’ by Brian Centrone and I’m suggesting we discuss this on Monday 8th November unless this is a problem for anyone.

If you want to join in with the next discussion, get in touch – see the ‘contact’ page.

🙂