Happy New Year with reading!
January 2014 we continue our monthly reading theme thanks ‘Read, watch, play’ ideas. This month the reading theme is #questread. When Read Watch Play provides many reading suggestions, Parramatta City Library also has this following reading recommendations.
You can borrow books from us and also join our Reading challenge program.
On the last meeting of the year the group had a great meeting and celebrated the end of year with little party and of course a book discussion.
Book – Lola’s Secret
Author – Monica McInerney
Book Summary – Magic can happen in every family… Continue reading
The group discussed the FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
Group Comments
One member re-read ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ which was writeen by a German soldier after the first world war.
It is a novel based on the author’s experiences even though it is not biographical.
It is a poignant account of the horror and futility of war and remains a classic anit-war novel.
As such, it was banned by the Nazis, and the author was stripped of his German citizenship.
Our small group discussed how human history has always had groups of people who operate in an oppressive manner and want to use the media and publications as a vehicle of control.
Freedom of the press and literature is vital to an open and tolerant society.
ParraPods has gone live!
ParraPods is Parramatta City Library’s Pod Cast.
Listen to our first episode, an Author Talk with one of Australia’s best selling authors Peter Fitzsimons.
Click on the picture below to listen on Soundcloud.
Stay tuned for many more fun and interesting pod casts from ParraPods.
TITLE – The Husband’s Secret
AUTHOR – Liane Moriarty
SUMMARY
“To be opened in the event of my death” With one swift, vicious movement, she sliced the envelope open, and pulled out a handwritten letter. love you and the girls… so sorry to leave you with this… cannot bear… The Husband’s Secret is a funny, heartbreaking novel of marriage, grief, love and secrets. When her husband announces he’s in love with her best friend, painfully shy Tess picks up her young son and returns to her mother’s house. There she begins an unexpected affair with an old flame. Rachel is a woman in her sixties consumed by grief and anger at the loss of her daughter twenty years earlier. When her son announces he is taking her beloved grandson overseas, Rachel begins a descent into deeper bitterness and pain. Cecilia is the quintessential “I don’t know how she does it” woman. A devoted mother to three daughters, she runs her household like clockwork, is President of the P&C, owns an extremely successful Tupperware business and is happy in her fifteen-year marriage. Until she discovers a letter in their attic labelled: “To my wife Cecilia, to be opened in the event of my death”… Her husband’s secret is a bombshell beyond all imagining with repercussions across the lives of all three women.
COMMENTS
I thought I had already read my favourite book of the year, but I am going to change my mind. The Husbands Secret is the BEST book I have read this year. Continue reading