Read it 2011 (#Readit2011) online reading challenge began with a bang this year with the January theme of ‘Scare up a good book’ (#scugb). Readers were encouraged to read and comment, via Twitter, Blog comments or written book reviews, on horror fiction and/or horror themed non ficiton books. The library provided 2 Suggested Reads Bookmarks for those who enjoy fiction or non fiction, see below for the link to these resources. Continue reading
Category Archives: Fiction
Catcher in the Rye Book Group Comments
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger has certainly caused some very different reactions amongst the First Wednesday Book Club members! It brought up a number of questions of what life was like in December 1949 in the USA. The book features the memories of teenager Holden Caulfield of events occuring a year earlier and is written from a first person perspective. The 2 main questions asked by the group were: why did we like it and; why did we NOT like it? Continue reading
Sherlock Holmes & James Bond are coming back
New books will be published this year in the Sherlock Holmes (originally written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and James Bond (by Ian Fleming) series. Continue reading
First discussion notes from a book club
The 1st Wed Reading Group had their first meeting in 2011 last week. The group discussed two books – Skipping Christmas by John Chrisham, What I loved by Siri Hustvedt. Continue reading
Scare up a Good Book in January: online reading challenge at Parramatta (1)
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Happy 2011 !
Welcome back to our blog. Well, now we’ve officially started NSW state wide online reading challenge #readit2011.
Here we’ve developed couple of reading lists for this month’s reading theme – Scare up a Good Book in January and is dedicated to all those things that go bump in the night, but surely there are more titles in your library for your disposal. Continue reading