Book Club Meeting Sunday 2nd February 2014 - The Time Has Arrived!!!

Welcome to 2014 and looking forward to catching up with all who can make it this coming Sunday.  The new venue has been picked, thanks Ruthie.  Location is Union Street Cafe Espresso Bar, unionstreetcafe.com.au/‎ on Cnr of Union and Water Street, Spring Hill.  Meeting time is 8am.

I am proposing an interesting approach to Bookclub this year, and it is inspired by Sara's summer challenge of working her way through the reading list of the Australian's top 50 Reads.  Now we are not going to read 50 books this year in bookclub, but collectively we probably will easily cover off on getting through quid a few. Yet i thought, how about we set ourselves the challenge of choosing from a list, to extend ourselves in terms of repertoire.  Also it may help us work our way through some of those must read books one should have an opportunity to read in their lifetime!
So I have done a google search and found the Guardian's must read list,   1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list.  

... Or Not... I guess we shall see ...
Here is how I propose we approach it... When it is your turn to pick, you can choose from the list by genre... We can edit out what we collectively have and haven't read, so along the way we will all be trying something a little new and different.  

Here is the link:  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction

Look forward to seeing you on Sunday :)

New book club location required!

Happy New Year everyone.  Hope your summer reading has been enjoyable.  I have found out that Crosstown is no longer serving breakfast but going back to their 'roots' of dinner service.  Thought their breakfast roots were just fine but alas a new locality is required.  Did we want to try another place in that same area?   or somewhere new?  We are scheduled to meet again on 2 Feb at 7.30 so some time before we have to commit!  Let me know your thoughts.  Cheers  Jen

Elegance of the Hedgehog & TEdx

Hi girls,

I finished Elegance of the Hedgehog yesterday and then watched a TEDx talk by Brene Brown today... If you have read Elegance of the Hedgehog you'll see why the first 5 min of the video made me reflect on the book... Hmph.... made me like the book less

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UoMXF73j0c

Forwarded and posted on behalf of Ruthie 

Ven-nice 

The Snow Child - Fable, Fantasy,Hope, Magic

What a beautiful story.  An exploration of the healing journey of hope and how the human experience of connection can foster a spirit of discovery and personal growth....healing from a broken heart of grief and loss is not a journey that can be done solely through solitude. 💜
Keeping it simple.... Thanks for a great year of reading  2013 .... Looking forward to this year 2014!!