2020

Book club members agreed that Clive James has told an entertaining autobiographical yarn about growing up in Kogarah

Many people love this book and rate it very highly on sites like Good Reads, but members were rather lukewarm about it.

Members gave this novel an above average rating of 8-9 1/2, although some found it hard to get into initially.

Members had a rather mixed reaction to Alva Erskine Vanderbilt Belmont, nee Smith, who is the main character in this biographical novel…

Members gave Scrublands a rating in the 7-8 range. For a first novel we found it a terrific page-turner with flourishes of descriptive brilliance

For some of us the violence and the language were all too much and Boy Swallows Universe was discarded early in the piece.

It is rare to find a book universally liked by club members at our monthly meeting but that’s what happened when we read a Month of Sundays by Australian author, Liz Byrski.

Members were somewhat polarised in their opinions of this book – which always makes for an interesting discussion on Club night.

Members were impressed with Brisbane author, Ben Hobson’s debut novel, To Become a Whale.

Members were quite divided on our non-fiction title this month. Some of us devoured it and will probably read the second and third books in the series