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Mackay Library Society Book Club

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If you enjoy reading, members of the Book Club meet every 2 months to discuss selected books.  All Library Society members are welcome to join.

Contact: Moyea Maclean
Phone: 4951 4387
Email: moyea@m130.aone.net.au

or for further information please call the CQUniversity Mackay Campus Library on 4940 7440 or 4940 7536, or email the library

Meet us at:

5.30pm at Coffee Club, Wood Street, Mackay
At the dates below

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Month   Books
Wednesday 14 March

Books about books about reading

Meeting will be held at CQUniversity Mackay Campus Library

Some reading ideas:

People of the book, Geraldine Brooks
The Book thief, Marcus Zusak
The Reader, Bernard Schlink
Reading by Moonlight: how books saved a life, Brenda Walker

Wednesday 9 May

     200 years of Dickens

    On 7 February, the world celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.  Check out the link below for an overview of Dickens' novels.

    http://www.dickensfellowship.org/dickens-fiction-writer

     

    http://www.dickens2012.org/

    Wednesday 11 July

    Commonwealth Writers Prize

    Read finalists' books from the years 1999 or 2002

    1999
    Murray Bail, Eucalyptus, Australia - Winner
    Marion Molteno, If you can walk you can dance, Sth Africa
    Lawrence Scott, Aelred's sin, Trinidad
    Beryl Bainridge, Master Georgie, UK

    2002

    Richard Flanagan, Gould's'book of fishes, Australia - Winner
    Nadine Gordimer, The Pick-up, Sth Africa
    Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Canada
    Ian McEwan, Atonement, UK

    The prize is funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. A finalist is chosen from each of 4 regions of the Commonwealth.

     

    Wednesday 12 September

    Biographies/Autobiographies of Authors/Poets/Writers

    We all seemed to enjoy biographies last time we had them as a theme.  It's the year of reading so let's focus on biographies of writers.
    Some suggested authors can be found at the link below.

    www.biographyonline.net/writers/index.html

    Wednesday 14 November


    National Year of Reading 2012

    It is the year of reading and as a part of the celebration a set of eight books, which together describe what it's like to live in, be from, visit or in some other way connect with the eight different states and territories of Australia has been selected.

    NSW - The Idea of home, John Hughes
    WA - Jasper Jones, Craig Silver
    NT - Listening to country, Ros Moriarty
    ACT - Smoke and mirrors, Kel Robertson
    SA - Time's long ruin, Stephen Orr
    TAS - Wanting, Richard Flanagan
    VIC - Well done, those men, Barry Heard
    QLD - The White earth, Andrew McGahan


    http://www.love2read.org.au/