The 1st Wednesday Group discussed
Eureka: the unfinished revolution by Peter Fitzimmons
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The Last Thursday Group read M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans
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Title: The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Pan McMillan, Australia, 2005
Staff Pick: Thanh
Read from the blurb of the book: “It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.”
Ah well, I said to myself, another Jewish story, in the line of The Schindler’s List, The Pianist etc… Which reminds me of my good German friend Manfred. He’s a gentleman, in the usual sense we understand, and in the literal meaning of a gentle, soft speaking, and decent soul. Once, he said to me: “Yes, during that time, Germany under Hitler did unspeakable evil, but the country never lacks of decent people, and ever since we try our damnedest that nothing of the sort ever happens again. Why even now, a book, a movie crop up to point a finger at us again and again?” Continue reading
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder – and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
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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.
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