Showing posts with label Book club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book club. Show all posts

Monday, 8 June 2015

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicolas Drayson

Fun, charming, touching.
The tortoise and the hare.
Secret side stories.
Wonderful birds.
Khan - surface bling, no real substance.
Malik - simple, noble...learning to see what is right in front of him,
Around him, his son, Benjamin, Petula.

Lovely.
Entertaining characters, sweet story for a rainy Sunday morning.
      

            A Guide to the Birds of East Africa. Nicholas Drayson

Saturday, 25 April 2015

CAIRO by Chris Womersley

Straight away my intuition was that there would be a tragic element at the end of all this.

I knew all along more or less what would happen, like when you witness something but are powerless or prevented from speaking or warning.  

There was a real cringe factor.  Youth, naïveté , denial, deception...all so blatantly obvious.
The cruel self interested games of manipulation people play.
So sad.
Could have been worse for Tom.

I enjoyed it without loving it.
Liked the familiar streetscapes.

Some small relief with the present? Left behind by sally.
I couldn't think of anything worse than going away with those disjointed couples.
Perhaps the experience wisened him up, one would hope it woke him up to the importance of doing your own thing, being your own person.
I felt uncomfortable because I recognised my own naive self.


Sunday, 29 March 2015

Baradine Bookworms March 2015



At the first meeting of the year for the Baradine Bookworms, we discovered an interesting list of summer reads.  Many genres were included from fantasy, crime, biography, travel and general fiction.  Some of the titles were;

BONE DEEP - DARIAN NORTH
THE GIRL WHO SAVED THE KING OF SWEDEN - JONAS JONASSON
ALMOST FRENCH - SARAH TURNBULL
THE SHIPPING NEWS - E. ANNIE PROULX
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH - NORTON JUSTER
THE RANGERS APPRENTICE SERIES - JOHN FLANAGAN 

Baradine Bookworms are a friendly bunch of keen readers that meet in Baradine Library at 5 pm on the last Thursday of each month.   We are a theme based reading group, sometimes reading the same book but mostly just sharing our passion for books in general.
Anyone is welcome to join us, whether you read a little or a lot.  The next date is April 30th and we are; 'reading a book we always wanted to read but never got around to'.