What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you got it right? Well, I think you would end up rather confused and exhausted, because that is how I felt just reading about Ursula and her reincarnations in Life after Life. Completely and utterly knackered and bamboozled!! Living once […]
Category Archives: Book Club Fodder
February
26
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
posted by Ms A
“Your TED talk is ranked number 4 on the all time most watched TED talks yet you live with a woman who has no friends, destroys homes and falls asleep in stores”. This is just one of the many great lines from Where’d You Go Bernadette which I plucked off the NY Times Best Seller […]
December
26
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
posted by Ms A
This is the story of a swimmer; Danny. With a burning, tormented ambition to be the fastest, strongest, greatest swimmer of his time, his turbulent adolescent mind is only at rest in the pool. Christos Tsiolkas is most known for his international bestselling novel, the Slap. Now an Australian classic, The Slap was a polorising look […]
November
13
No Place Like Home by Caroline Overington
posted by Ms K
I could not wait to get my hands on this book after reading a couple of the author’s books over the past month – most notable her non-fiction work about living in New York as a Correspondent (Jolly Good read!). I nearly yelped in the book shop when I found it and could not wait […]
July
29
I Take You by Nikki Gemmell
posted by Ms K
Nikki, Nikki, Nikki…..I am left wondering if you actually liked this book. I know you wrote it but I was left with this sense that you didn’t even think the characters were enough so you introduced those beautiful chapter quotes by Virginia Woolf. I loved those. I hated the rest. And this made me quite […]
July
11
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
posted by Ms A
If you are in a book club, you need to workshop this book around a very large platter of triple cream cheese, pate and nuts and then see who dares to partake. It is perfect book club fodder in every sense. Firstly, it is written by the highly credible and well respected author of “We Need to Talk […]
June
26
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
posted by Ms K
‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’s’ pilgrimage into my own hands was a little bit of divine intervention. This book came to me at a time when I needed it most – even though I didn’t know it then – and Harold, oh how I love thee for it. This read is an absolute beauty. […]
February
18
The Dinner by Herman Koch
posted by Ms K
The Dinner. Well, courtesy of this book, I have just been put off mine. Judging by all the reviews, I had a hit in my hands. A best seller, a not-to-be missed read so I could barely wait to get right into it. What could be better? Intrigue and food! hoorah. Fool! Having just […]
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