Tag Archives: books

2nd Tuesday Book Group

Posted on by

ertTitle – Breathing in Colour

Author – Clare Jay

Book Summary –

‘Your child is missing – presumed dead.’Hours after receiving the phone call that every mother dreads, Alida Salter flies to India to search for her backpacker daughter. The discovery of disturbing collages in Mia’s hotel makes Alida suspect a connection between the disaster that fractured their relationship thirteen years ago, and Mia’s recent, mysterious disappearance.Mia is no ordinary girl. Growing up with the sensory condition synaesthesia – where she sees the world in a kaleidoscope of shapes, colours and smells – she has gone through life with the vivid imagination of an artist, but for years she has shouldered an overwhelming burden of guilt. It has been a difficult relationship, but now comes the toughest test of all…Alida must find the courage to trust her maternal instincts, or lose her daughter forever.

Groups Comments – Continue reading →

Doris Lessing dies at the age of 94

Posted on by

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize winning author has passed away, peacefully at home at the age of 94.

Doris was a prolific writer and reluctant feminist icon, but was first and foremost a storyteller, loyal to the power of the written word.

Some of Doris’s books include:

aaaabcavgdrf

 

 

 

 

 

 

YABBAs 2013 Winners

Posted on by

The YABBAs (Yound Australia’s Adult Best Book Awards ) Award winners have been declared for 2013.

Winner Fiction Years 7-9

After by Morris Gleitzman

Publisher – Viking (Penguin) 2012

Winner Fiction Older Readers

26 storey treehouse  by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton

Publisher – Pan Macmillan

2012 Winner Fiction Younger Readers

The golden door by Emily Rodda

Publisher – Omnibus Books, 2011

Winner Picture Story books

Pooka by Carol Chataway & Nina Rycroft

Publisher – Working Title Press, 2012

Graham Davey Citation

The very cranky bear by Nick Bland

Publisher – Penguin, 2008

Jody’s Pick – Grave Mercy

Posted on by

aaaTitle:Grave Mercy

Author: Robin LaFevers

Book Summary

Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf? Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts–and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany–where she finds herself woefully under prepared–not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?

Comments Continue reading →

2nd Tuesday Evening Book Group – Red Sorghum

Posted on by

aaaTitle: Red Sorghum

Author: Mo Yan

Book Summary

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator’s grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu’s wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food, the Japanese start firing and she is killed. Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war’s progress, the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family’s history.

Groups Comments

Only 2 readers in the group actually finished the book and they found the book well-written and intriguing. The different values systems displayed by the different warring sides highlighted the inhuman character of war. Continue reading →