The 2nd Tuesday evening book group read the novel ‘The Cattleman’s Daughter’ by Rachael Treasure for February 2011.
Here were some of their thoughts: Continue reading
Category Archives: Fiction
Her fearful symmetry – a book review
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Title: Her fearful symmetry
Leicester, U.K. : Jonathan Cape, 2009
Sarah’s pick
Elspeth Noblin, rare book collector, dies of leukaemia aged 44. She leaves her apartment bordering London’s Highgate Cemetery to her nieces with the proviso that they live in it for one year before they can sell it. Her nieces Julia and Valentina are mirror twins- identical twins who are mirror images of each other. Continue reading
Discussion notes from Saturday Book Club
This year Parramatta City Library has started a themed reading group on the last Saturday of the month. The members of this book club don’t read the same title for their monthly meeting. Instead they read books according to the monthly themes in conjunction with #readit2011 – online reading challenge. Continue reading
2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize shortlists
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleID=146
2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize has announced its regional shortlists. The winners of the Best Book and Best First Book awards from each of the four regions will go on to compete against each other at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize’s final programme to be held at Sydney Writers’ Festival from 16-22 May. Continue reading
Dog boy – a review
Title: DOG BOY
Author: EVA HORNUNG
MELBOURNE, TEXT PUBLISHING, 2009
Katherine’s pick
This novel is an engrossing story of a young boy who becomes a member of a family of dogs. The setting is Moscow, and the child is abandoned by the adults in his life in a derelict block of flats. The four year old boy stays inside the shambles of rooms which is his home for a week, but once he has eaten everything he can find, he wanders into the icy streets and eventually follows a dog who is the matriarch of a family of wild dogs. Continue reading