FROM Laura Schneider lschneider@gm.slc.edu
NEVIL SHUTE SYMPOSIUM- April 13-15
The Nevil Shute Symposium takes place next
week in Hanover, New Hampshire. There has
been a great response and there is still
time to register. The weekend will be
memorable and you will learn things about
the life and work of Nevil Shute you never
knew you did not know! Go to
nevilshute.org/USweekend.php
for the Symposium Program and registration
information.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
See you in the Upper Valley!
FROM Joost Meulenbroek
joost.meulenbroek@mac.com
After our first Dutch book discussion in the
National Military Museum in Soesterberg, and
the second one in Singraven in Denekamp, it
is time for a third meeting.
This meeting will be held on April 22 next,
in Restaurant De Thermiekbel (thermal
bubble) on the glider airfield Terlet,
between Arnhem and Apeldoorn.
We will discuss
The
Chequerboard, or
's Mensen
Schaakspel
as the
Dutch title is.
The meeting will be held on Sunday 22th
April. We will arrive from noon and will
have lunch at 13:00 hour. If the weather is
good, we will lunch on the balcony, with a
wonderful view over Terlet airfield and all
the activity that is going on there.
After lunch we will discuss the book.
Depending on the attendees, the discussion
will be in Dutch or English. The
participation to this meeting is free, but
for the consumptions that you will have and
the lunch.
The address is:
Restaurant De Thermiekbel
Apeldoornseweg 203
6816 SM Arnhem
The Netherlands
tel: +31 26 445 5450
If you want to come to this meeting, please
let me know in advance.
(Until now 8 people have signed up)
joost.meulenbroek@mac.com
tel: +31 6 54 791 307
From Richard Thorn thornduo@meic.com
Dear fellow Shute enthusiasts.An update on the quiz that was included in the February Newsletter. At midday on 28th February 7 entries had been received, 5 of which were
correct.
The answers to the 5 questions were as follows:-
Q1. What is the first name of Theodore Honey's daughter?
A1. Elspeth (No Highway)
Q2. What is the first name of Alan Duncan's sister?
A2. Helen (Requiem for a Wren)
Q3. What is the first name of Peter Holmes' wife?
A3. Mary (On the Beach)
Q4. What is the first name of Keith Stewart's sister?
A4. Joanna or Jo (Trustee from the Toolroom)
Q5. What is the first name of John Turner's wife?
A5. Mollie (The Chequer Board)
The prizewinners were as follows:
Someone living in the UK: - No winner
Someone living in the USA:- J B Robert
Someone living in Australia: - M Jones
Someone living elsewhere in the world:- B Neezen
All winners have been notified and should now have received their prize.
Regards
Richard Thorn
From Gadepalli
Subrahmanyam gsmani174@gmail.com
While the opportunity to interact with
fellow Shutists is exciting, there are two
difficulties for us - or for me at least.
First of course, the travel expenses, which
are considerable from India to either
America or
England or Australia.
Second is the difficulty of pronunciation,
though basically Queen's English,
enunciation of each country is different. I
spent a couple of six month spells in New
Zealand, and every third word spoken by me
or my new acquaintance had to be repeated.
Of course the spoken language is easily
acquired if there is continuity and more
important, necessity.
Perhaps this is the reason, I prefer
browsing through 'many times read' N.S.
Books, alone.
All the best to participants that will be
able to enjoy the sessions.
From Ralph A.
Nickerson nickerson_botswana@yahoo.co.uk
Regarding the March Newsletter:
Mr. MacDougall:
Well, what a coincidence! I am currently
re-reading, in my usual rather slow way, "So
Disdained", after a gap of at least 50
years. And lovely stuff it is too - for
early Shute - and no worse for being a
trifle John Buchan-esqe. I'd forgotten
nearly all the details, which makes it no
less pleasant to read again - except, oddly,
some of Peter Moran's problems flying that
big, strange machine from Sussex to N.
Italy.
Your information on Shute's time on the
Isle of Grain, parachute flares and engine
silencers I found of much interest; when one
appreciates an author/authoress as much as I
appreciate that Master story-teller NSN,
such background all adds to the pleasure.
As does generally sharing with others the
interest and pleasure of his tales. In a
world rich with great writers, Shute has his
niche - and may he never be "disdained".
And you read your first Shute in 1944?
Amazing! You must be of a venerable age
indeed. My introduction was via "A Town Like
Alice", being a 16th birthday present from a
kindly Aunt; that was in 1958...
That world of Moran and Lenden, now a
long 90 years ago, is beginning to look a
little quaint, even to us older codgers.
And yet, since I've myself had shortish
spells employed on private estates in Hants
and Sussex, I can vouch that the typical
atmosphere on such an estate, as evoked by
Shute is - spot on. As for the love interest
in "Disdained", I confess I'm still romantic
and daft enough to be touched by that
between Moran and his Sheila (with a capital
S!).
All the best to you, Mr. M., to the
memory of that Master of story-telling, and
to those gathered world-wide who appreciate
his legacy.
From
Alison Jenner alisonjenner@yahoo.com
Dear Shutists,
This enquirer suggests a book with the
storyline:
“pacifist camping on English coast meets
German invaders”
is a Shute novel. I’ve told her that
it’s not a Shute plot but that I’ll ask
newsletter members whether they
recognise it as by another writer.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Mary Lee
Date: 1 April 2018
Subject: Remembered book
I am 80 years old. Started reading
Shute, as did my mother, in my early
teens. I remember one in which a
pacifist camping on English coast meets
German invaders. He is indifferent until
one throws one of his books into his
campfire. Was this one of his stories?
If so what was the title ?
Thanks for your time, MLLD
Editor: If you know,
please let us know at
newsletter@nevilshute.org. I'm sure that
more of our members are interested.
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