Last bookclub of the year!

Hi there everyone,
Well tomorrow is officially the last book club of the year and Christmas will soon be upon us. But most importantly its summer and that means summer reading and lazying about with a stack of novels that I havn't been able to get to during the year.
I love to fossick through the various Summer reading guides from my favourite booksellers,
check some of them out here:

Readings
Reader's Feast
Books in print

I hope you have enjoyed Norwegian Wood, have a look at the offical movie trailer, makes me want to go to Japan.....

See you tomorrow at Gordon White Library at 6pm,

Cheers! Margaret

What we are reading for November......

This months read comes from the SLQ Bookclub collection, 'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami.
It has sold more than 4 million copies in Japan and is a story about a college student's coming of age. For more details, check it out here

See you on the 29th November for our final Book Club of the year!

So what are we reading now? Two Book club sets have arrived from the State Library of Queensland and I introduced one at the last Book Club....

If you want to see the questions we will attempt to discuss! http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/668-mister-pip-jones?start=3

As we do two books a session and do a swap around, The Snow Child was handed around again.

If you have a copy of the Dressmaker or The Boat, I will shower you with chocolate, as I have one copy of each gone astray......

I will introduce the second SLQ book club set this Thursday at Gordon White Library at 6pm.

Looking forward to catching up with everyone,

Margaret

So what are you doing this Monday night? Coming to Gordon White Library I hope?
At 6pm for wine and cheese?

and to meet Nicole Alexander, author of Absolution Creek...

Nicole is The NSW 2012 Barwon Woman of the Year. Nicole is recognised for her literary talent and promoting Outback Australia and providing a strong female role model for rural professionals.

Phone Gordon White Library on 4961 9300 to book, look forward to seeing you there!

This Thursday 30th August at 6pm is Book Club!
Hope you have enjoyed the two reads from the last month and if not, we will have a lot to talk about!

I am super organised this time around and can give you the heads up on the two reads for next month.

http://www.harpercollins.com.au/book/index.aspx?isbn=9780732287597

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11250053-the-snow-child

See you Thursday,
P.S. don't forget to bring in previous reads to put back into the collection, cheers!

This months reads have been distributed, don't forget to drop them back in the shute as soon as you have finished them for the rest of the group to catch up. Alternatively, you can ask our friendly staff to collect a copy of what you missed out on and they will happily return with it from the nether regions of the library!

You can check out what other readers of The Light Between Oceans have said here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13566055-the-light-between-oceans

and the beautiful website for Nam Le here: http://www.namleonline.com/

Our next meeting is on the 30th August at Gordon White Library meeting room at 6pm. 

Looking forward to catching up with you then, 

Margaret 

Hi there,
Just a quick note to let you know, Good Reading Magazine is giving access to their latest magazine online for free, Just click on the link and start enjoying.
http://digital.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/?MembershipID=0#folio=1

Book Club on tonight at Gordon White Library - 6-8pm in the Meeting Room

Don't forget to bring all your books in to return to their sets! I am looking forward to hearing what you all thought of The Dressmaker and Not Drowning Reading.....there has been discontent afoot!

Prime Minister's Literary Award Winner for Fiction is...Foals Bread.

What the judges said: 'In this strong field, it was the unanimous decision of the judges that the winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction we recommend is Gillian Mears for Foal’s Bread. Written in transfixing prose and with an–at times–aching affinity for the harsh landscape the book describes, Foal’s Bread is an extraordinary work of remarkable strength and originality.'

So there it is, whether you liked or it or not, it is a unique book worthy of acknowledgement.

Two titles read and two more selected......

It was great to see everyone return for the second Book Club meet up and welcome some new faces to the group. I hope you all enjoyed the evening discussing 'Foals Bread' and 'Before I go to sleep', trying not to spoil the ending for the half who haven't read them yet!

 For a great review of Gillian Mears new book click here. For a great review of S.J.Watson click here

As predicted there were some that loved them, others that didn't but interesting discussion about the writers prose and devices was had. 

So to the current choices for this month are:

Happy Reading!

Second Book Club meet up tonight, 14th June, 2012.

So we have been reading voraciously, or not, two selections from our launch.
Foal's Bread by Gilliam Mears and Before I go to Sleep by S.J.Watson

Welcome to Between the Lines!

Hi there,
Welcome to Mackay Regional Council Libraries Book Club Blog, Between the Lines.
We hope you enjoy our first meet up and feel inspired to come along every month.

Cheers!
Margaret
Learning and Outreach Librarian