Hi all!

Upcoming titles for book club this month include Go Set A Watchman the sequel to the award winning To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee for the Wednesday morning group.

The Wednesday evening group will be reading Richard Glovers' autobiography Flesh Wounds.  Richard's weekly humour column has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald for over twenty years. He also presents the top-rating Drive show on ABC radio in Sydney.

The Monday evening group will be discussing Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson. Miles is a writer and an artist. He was born in Melbourne in 1981. This is his first book.

It is now that time of year for everybody to start thinking about titles for discussion for next year! If there is any particular book you would like to suggest or discuss for your group please let me know here at the Library!

We also have a few spots available for new members to join just give the library a call on  02 4645 4444

Cheers
Dave

 

Hi All!

This month at Book Club the Wednesday morning group will be reading A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman.

The Wednesday evening group will be reading Miles Allison's Fever of Animals, winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2014.

Due to popular demand we now have started a Monday evening group! There are still a few vacancies so if you know anyone interested get them to give me a call here at the Library on 46454444. Held on the last Monday of every month!
The first title being discussed will be All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

Upcoming Titles:

Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Cheers
Dave

Hi all!

The end of another year is almost upon us and also another year of good reading for the Book Club. So now is the time to start thinking about what you would like to read and discuss next year and start getting your selections in!

This month the morning group will be discussing 1974 by David Peace. 1974 is the first book in a four part series, 1977, 1980 and 1983. It is a novel of passion, violence and corruption set in Yorkshire, England starting in 1974 (of course). It was also made into a 3 part television movie called the Red Riding Trilogy starring Sean Bean and Andrew Garfield that is available for loan from the library.

The evening group will be discussing Peter Carey's Bliss a "darkly funny and prescient fable about the idiocy of defiling nature."

cheers
Dave

Hi all!

This month at Book Club the morning group will be discussing David Baldacci's The Camel Club. A story of Washington politics, corruption and murder.

While the evening group will be looking at the Biography of Tara Moss, The Fictional Woman.

For any information on the authors or a review of the current titles please follow the links above.

It is also that time of year to start thinking about your reading for next year so please get your selections in to me as soon as possible by either dropping them in at the front desk or leaving them behind on your next Book Club visit. Or you can email me at david.manchip@campbelltown.nsw.gov.au

Also some exciting news, due to the great demand and interest from patrons at the Library we will be starting up another evening group, starting in February of 2016 and meeting on the last Monday of every month. More details will follow closer to the end of the year.

Cheers
Dave

Hi Book Clubbers!

This week I received an email from another book club in the Sydney region and thought it might be worth checking out:

"Hi there! We're a Sydney based book club that started out just meeting up and discussing our thoughts on books we've read. This eventually turned into something much bigger! This year our novel 'The Painted Sky' written by five of our members was published by Random House and will be published in Germany in October. Writing a book with 5 team members is something that has never been done before. We want to reach out to other book clubs who may be inspired by our example and invite you to join our community. We think there's a lot of wasted talent out there that might see the light of day through writing together as a group. We hope that you would like to join our Facebook community or hop on over to our website for more info. Thanks!"

I have included the link here

Cheers
Dave

Greetings all!

This month the morning group will be discussing How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman, a story about Marta who has been married to Hector for longer than she can remember. She has always tried hard to be a good wife.
But now Hector has come home with a secret. And Marta is beginning to imagine - or revisit - a terrifying truth.

While the evening group will bo looking at Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds.

"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger.
Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions.

 

Cheers
David

Hello all and welcome to a new year of Book Club!

This month the morning group will be discussing the Miles Franklin Literary Award winning All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld.

 While the evening group will be looking at One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

If you would like any further information on this months current authors please click on the links above.

A few of our upcoming titles:

How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
1974 by David Peace
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
The Camel Club by David Baldacci
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Cheers
David