EAST AND WEST LONDON BOOK CLUB
We are super excited that we now not only have a MM BOOK CLUB IN WEST LONDON but also in EAST LONDON!!!! So no excuses to not get that brain into gear.
Our NEXT MM book clubs will be run on the 12TH JULY by the lovely MM mamma Coralie Rose (WEST LONDON) at The Bush Theatre,
11AM, and the lovely Emily Button will be hosting the EAST LONDON bookclub at DISHOOM 7 Boundary Street, London E2 7JE
Being a mum can sometimes mean that you feel as if your brain is on a permanent vacation. When you do have the time read a few pages of THAT MUST READ book you bought from Amazon 14 months ago you choose to go for the biscuits, put your most unattractive pj’s on and shamefully tune into Xfactor or waste an hour catching up with what the rest of the world (people you either don’t know or don’t care about) is up to via social media whilst feeling your brain melting away!!
Now it is time to start using that brain again! This doesn’t mean you have to become an Shakespeare aficionados overnight. A few pages of Jackie Collins will do 
Our book this month is the JUST KIDS BY PATTI SMITH - you can buy it here
A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists-Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art.
In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max’s Kansas City, Scribner’s Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol’s Factory and the whole city resplendent. Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another. Scrappy, romantic, committed to making art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years-the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often hungry, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near.
HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT, even if you have not read the book come along for a chat and meet some lovely ladies !! X