Staff Book Club
Read a book
The staff have a book club that meets about once a term. We generally have books from Wanneroo Public Library for about six weeks, although there is an opportunity to organise the meetings using a different focus, such as each person bring a title to share and recommend.
It is a very informal approach to a bookclub and allows discussion of books ... and anything else that comes up. Our social component can be coffee or a meal - all depends on the members.
Listed below are the books recommended by members at our meeting held on 16th February. This was interesting and entertaining as we all enjoy different genres. Check out the table below if you would like to try reading one of these wonderful books.
Booksclub recommendations
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NAME |
BOOK TITLE |
AUTHOR |
AVAILABLE AT CARINE SHS LIBRARY |
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Debbie Nuttman |
The Book of Joe Breath The Help |
Trooper Tim Winter k.Stockett |
Yes Yes |
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Caroline Phillips |
Sharantah God of Small things A fine Balance |
Yes
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Sandy Johnstone |
My Secret Daughter Tuesdays with Marrie |
S. Guida
Mitch Albom |
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Phyllis Samiotis |
Life of Pi |
Martel |
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Wendy Cody |
Rhubarb
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Silvey |
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Fay Mitchell |
If you like Murder |
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Books Staff have read over the break
NAME BOOK TITLE AUTHOR AVAILABLE AT CARINE SHS LIBRARY Debbie Nuttman Fallen Torment SnakeHead Crocodile Tears Breath The Book Thief Kate Kate Horowitz Horowitz Winton Zusak Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Tes Diane Piruk In the sea there are crocodiles The ask and the answer Radiant Shadows Fragile Eternity The secret River Angel Arias Geda Ness Marr Marr Grenville de Pierres Yes Yes Yes Mandy Heggs The Calling and chaneling Strife Sweep Seeker The Girl who kicked a Hornets Nest Beautiful Chaos Teirnan Teirnan Teirnan Teirnan Larsson Carcia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Anthony Ritchie Life of Pi Martel Rob Tozer The Temple The Lost Symbol The Exile The Hadrian Memorandum The Machiavelli Covenant Reilly Brown Folsom Folsom Folsom Mike Denby The Invention of Hugo Cabret Selznick Yes Ahn Do Paul Brooker The Litigator Blue Gold Raise the Titanic Grisham Cussler Cussler Trudy Abrecht Catching Fire The Secret River Enders' Game Collins Grenville Card Lorea Bell When the Pelicans Laughed Nannup Bill Ellis A Dance with Dragons Snuff New Scientist American scientist Focus Martin Pratchett Magazine Magazine Magazine Yes Tracy Griffiths The Faraway Girls Treasury Unbearable Lightness The Various Flavours of Coffee Happy Accidents New Beginnings Barra Creek Jasper Jones McInerney Binchy de Rossi Capella Lynch Britton Morrisey Silvey Betty Bryant March That Deadman Dance Blossoms and Shadows Brooks Scott Hearn
Jo Kagi
Room
Donohue
Ross Brennan
The Happiest Refugee
Yes
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Check out the Student Book Club which we have just started. Any suggestions for organisation or ideas let us know.
Bookclub Meeting 2012
Wild Fig 2 May, 2012
Attended by Caroline Phillips, Wendy Cody, Diane Piruk, Raelyn Abdruzkiw, Phyllis Samiotis, Jenny Jenson and Sandy Johnstone.
We met to discuss ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy at the Wild Fig in Scarborough on 2/5.
Unlike other venues, the Wild Fig is a restaurant where discussion and conversation is not made difficult by the ambient noise level.
The book under discussion was one of the more confronting that we have tackled. Some people found it difficult to read to the end. It deals with the survival of a father and son after a global disaster. Civilisation has been destroyed and the basic necessities of life are very scarce or polluted. Against this backdrop the father tries to educate his son with the skills required for survival, whilst maintaining his morality and concern for others.
It was cleverly constructed - intermitted punctuatio, use of phrases rather than sentences, consistent reference to the land as disesed, produced a chilling portrait of a world in meltdown and with its profound effect on society as a result. The very success of the author in creating this atmosphere resulted in a number of readers avoiding the text.
Our next title is
‘ The Naked Husband’ by Mark D’Arbanville.
A work of fiction based largely on personal experience, The Naked Husband has been billed by its publisher as a ‘right of reply’ to Nikki Gemmell’s (originally) anonymous work ‘The bride stripped bare’.
But for its author it was written in response to the pain of his own troubled marriage and subsequent death of his wife. Controversial with readers and reviewers, book clubs will no doubt have lively debates over whether this is, as claimed, an insight into how men really feel and think in relationships. Described as “shocking, disturbing but impossible to put down”.