Monthly Archives: June 2013

2013 ABIA Awards

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2013 Australian Book Industry Awards have announced its winners. Sometimes I do feel the awards from the industry might be biased on best sellers list rather than literary values. However when you look the list of winners there are some good reads there. Surely you’d appreciate and enjoy reading them.

Parramatta City Library has all the titles for loan and title’s like The light between oceans has  been discussed by one of our reading groups The 1st Wed Reading Group and the group’s comments are on the blog. Continue reading →

Read Watch Play June 2013 – Faraway

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Join Parramatta Library as we participate in the Read Watch Play reading theme for June

FARAWAY

What do you think of when you read far far away?

Does it take you back to reading fairy stories or does it make you think of other stories/histories which take place far far away?

Does it make you think of travel to places #faraway?

Or of science fiction, space travel and exploration?

Or is it of fantasy with creatures and ideas from #faraway?

What places seem #faraway to you? They may be countries or worlds away, or only a few blocks, suburbs or towns away? Continue reading →

1st Wednesday Book Group – Band-aid for a broken leg

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At Mays meeting the 1st Wednesday group discussed:

Band-aid for a broken leg: being a doctor without borders by Damien Brown.

Damien Brown is a twenty-nine-year-old Australian doctor, inexperienced but motivated by a strong desire to help, when he arrives in Angola – an impoverished, war-torn country in south west Africa – for a six-month posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres. It’s his first stint with the organisation, and he thinks he is ready.

Groups comments: Continue reading →

Alan Walker Book Group – Minding Frankie

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Parramatta Library’s Outreach Book Group at Alan Walker Village read Maeve Binchy’s, Minding Frankie here are their thoughts:

 

The group had a healthy and robust discussion, that indicated one an all enjoyed the book.

Over 40 characters in the book rather over faced some. It was said, “in reality five stories were incorporated”.

First time readers of Maeve Binchy were quite enthralled by her undoubted ability. Avid readers didn’t consider this her finest book. Everyone was sorry that her recent death means no further books. Continue reading →

Last Thursday Book Group – The Happiest Refugee

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At the May meeting the group discussed:

The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do

Summary

The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia’s best-loved comedians. Anh Do nearly didn’t make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing – not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days – could quench their desire to make a better life in the country they had dreamed about. Continue reading →