主题: Global Warming, Climate Change & Pollution, etc.
今天的活动准时在12.00分开始, 在座的七位华人朋友当中, 只有三位是常客, 即他们每个月都参加活动, 另外那些是新朋友, 但无论是新人还是旧人, 大家的情绪都很高涨, 围绕着全球的气侯变化，环境污染，地震，洪水，山火等有关的自然灾害这些主题, 展开了热烈的讨论. Continue reading
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CRIME READS
Join Parramatta Library and read everything CRIME for this months Read Watch Play theme CRIME READS.
Crime is very popular here at the Library both among staff and our Library members.
When you are in the Library check out our display of Crime Reads, located right when you walk in.
Katherine’s Crime Picks are:
Worth Dying For by Lee Childs
Nothing To Lose by Lee Childs
ALS Gold Medal Long List
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
ALS Gold Medal Long List announced
Over eighty titles were submitted, a group that represents both the quality and diversity of Australian literary publishing.
Lola Bensky by Lily Brett
Montebello by Robert Drewe
Like a house on fire by Cate Kennedy
The engagement by Chloe Hooper
The light between oceans by M L Stedman
The fine colour of rust by P A O’Reilly
The history of books by Gerald Murnane
Lost voices by Christopher Koch
The mountain by Drusila Modieska
Questions of travel by Michelle De Kretser
The Darkness on the Edge of Town – by Jessie Cole
Cumulus: Collected Poems – Robert Gray
The Short List will be announced on March 18, 2013
The Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2013
The Women’s Prize for fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize, has announced the twenty titles on its longlist for 2013.
The Women’s Prize for fiction is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman.
Any woman writing in English – whatever her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter – is eligible.
The shortlist will be announced on the 16 April 2013 and the winner who will receive a prize of £30, 000 will be announced on the 5 June 2013.
A great list of books; some are already really popular among Library members.
Any copies not held within the Library have been ordered and can be reserved online once they become available.
Click on the links below to reserve titles already part of Parramatta Library’s collection. Continue reading
2nd Tuesday Evening Book Group Notes – March 2013
Review main contain plot spoilers.
The group had mixed reactions to this book. One group member, who grew up in the same area as the author felt that the area and period had been really well depicted.
Many of the characters depicted are emotionally stunted which often makes the novel bleak. Some group members have surmised that the “disease” that Rowley develops may be Multiple Sclerosis which the author has. Continue reading