The new Autumn 2017 edition of our reading guide, All About Books is now available. For your FREE copy ask a Library Staff member at any of our branches.
It is filled with lots of reading ideas to inspire you over the season and has a little something for everyone…check out our special Books to Screen section, so many wonderful titles are being made into a movie or tv series this year.
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Category Archives: Books to Screen
Book Review: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Summary
Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she’s owned for a year still doesn’t feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did 18 months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for – or just more questions? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she’s going to keep it, she has to invite them in.
Comments
Our group loved this book! Fantastic read!! Even when it made us cry, we still loved this book. We found the story was beautifully written. We found all the characters relatable, from the main characters, Lou and Will, all the way down to Lou’s family. It generated lots of “good” discussion amongst our readers and our differing views on what the title meant to each of us. It challenged our thoughts on what we thought life was worth living for. We especially loved the connection between Lou and Will. We cannot recommend this enough for those who love a good “chicklit” read
Rating
9 1/2
Read by Cultcha Club
Top Book Reads of 2016!
If you were wondering what books had the most loans for 2016, wonder no more! Here are the top ten of the year.
Adult Fiction
- The girl on the train – Paula Hawkins
- 15th affair – James Patterson
- Cometh the hour – Jeffrey Archer
- Make me – Lee Child
- Big little lies – Liane Moriarty
- Rogue lawyer – John Grisham
- The crossing -Michael Connelly
- The steel kiss – Jeffrey Deaver
- The guilty – David Baldacci
- Private Paris – James Patterson and Personal – Lee Child
Adult Non Fiction
- The life-changing magic of tidying up – Marie Kondo
- Road users’ handbook – Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW
- Driver qualification handbook – Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW and A guide to the driving test – Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW
- Reckoning: a memoir – Magda Szubanski and Hazard perception handbook – Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW
- The secret – Rhonda Byrne
- Tax for Australians for dummies – Jimmy B. Prince
- The happiest refugee – Ahn Do
- I quit sugar – Sarah Wilson
- The 8-week blood sugar diet – Michael Mosley
- Flesh wounds – Richard Glover
For Young Adults
- Harry Potter and the cursed child. Parts one and two – Jack Thorne
- The fault in our stars – John Green and Paper towns – John Green
- The scorch trials – James Dashner
- Allegiant – Veronica Roth
- Catching fire – Suzanne Collins
- Divergent – Veronica Roth
- The book thief – Marcus Zusak
- The hunger games – Suzanne Collins
- The city of heavenly fire – Cassandra Clare
- If I stay – Gayle Forman
For Children
- Diary of a wimpy kid: the long haul – Jeff Kinney
- Diary of a wimpy kid: the third wheel – Jeff Kinney
- The 52-storey treehouse – Andy Griffiths
- Thea Stilton and the mystery on the Orient Express – Thea Stilton
- The only me – Meredith Harvey
- The 65-storey treehouse – Andy Griffiths
- Diary of a wimpy kid: old school – Jeff Kinney
- The wimpy kid movie diary – Jeff Kinney
- The perilous plants – Geronimo Stilton
- Totally weird! – Ahn Do
Books to TV Series
Look out! What will be on our screen this year:
- The Cormoran Strike Series by Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling
- Voyager – The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
All About Books Summer 2016/17 edition
Looking for some more reading inspriration over Summer to distract you from the heat? Why not check out our All About Books reading guide, pick up your copy from the Library or click here.