Saturday, 26 January 2019

January's book 2019

Our first book for 2019 is Pat's choice: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie.

Best books for 2018

In 2018 we read six books.

Poum and Alexandre, Catherine Saint Phalle    
Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny       
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid        
Butterfly on a Pin, Alannah Hill        
Extinctions, Josephine Wilson       
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman

We voted on the top books for the year and the first three were:
1. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. 2. Exit West 3 Extinctions.

Friday, 21 September 2018

September book

Our book for September 2018 is the novel, Extinctions. Extinctions, by Western Australian writer, Josephine Wilson, won the Miles Franklin award in 2017.

After that we'll be reading and discussing Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Books to date 2018

I'm a bit behind in posting our books for this year.
So far we have read
Standard Deviation by  Katherine Heiny and Exit West by Mohsin Hamid        
Our next book is: Butterfly on a Pin by Alannah Hill

Thursday, 25 January 2018

First book for 2018

Our first book for 2018 is Poum and Alexandre, a Paris memoir by Catherine de Saint Phalle.

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Best books for 2017

The votes are in for 2017. We read six books in 2017. The top ranked ones were:

1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2. Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
3. Hag Seed by Margaret Atwood

Wednesday, 5 July 2017

August 2017 book

Our next book for the August 2017 meeting is The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
A place for our book club to put reviews of books, best book votes and lists of what we are currently reading