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We are proud to announce that we now have two book clubs, meeting on different nights and planning to keep in close touch while reading different books.  The new book club is called Joondalup Readers but you don't need to live in Joondalup in order to join it!  Next January, when the Festival of Perth is on, we intend to have a joint outing in the form of a picnic at ECU before viewing one of the many great choices likely to present themselves.

From all reports, Joondalup Readers have got off to a good start.  Great news!

Next Book Club Details

G R A C E   C H U R C H   B O O K C L U B

Venue: At Mary's
Date: 20th February
Time: 7:30 pm
Currently Reading: The Wasted Vigil

J O O N D A L U P   R E A D E R S

Venue: at Vera's
Date: 8th February
Time: 7:30
Currently
Reading
A Thousand Splendid Suns

Grace Church Bookclub will continue to meet on the 3rd Monday.

Book kits are borrowed from Wanneroo Library and the cost is $100 a year which means a $120 fee on joining and then $2 per month so that the annual fee doesn't hurt when it comes! The availability of kits governs our choice of books – often forcing us out of our comfort zone. Generally speaking, we really enjoy the books, even when they appear unattractive to begin with.

We consider ourselves very lucky to be able to borrow these kits at a minimum price.  However to fit in with administration and other book clubs, we must order kits 12 months ahead so that the date is set in stone for when book club is held, that is the third Monday of every month.  Grace Bookclub has been reading the following:
Oryx and Krake
by Margaret Atwood
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant
Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Middlesex
by Jeffery Eugenides
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Grace Book Club is reading:-

 "The Wasted Vigil" by Nadeem Aslam.

"Described as a devastatingly moving and beautiful novel, this dazzling novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. It is possible that Marcus's daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus's wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born.

In the days that follow, further people will arrive at the house, David Town and James Palantine, two Americas who havespent much of their adult lives in the aread, for their respective reasons; Dunia, a young Afghan teacher; and Casa, a radicalised young man intent on his own path.

The stories and histories that unfold- interweaving and overlapping, and spanning nearly a quarter of a century - tell of the terrible afflictions that have plagued Afghanistan. A work of deepest humanity, The Wasted Vigil offers a timely portrait of this region, of love during war and conflict. At once angry, unflinching and memorably beautiful.
 

Joondalup Readers have been reading:
Middlemarch by George Eliot The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimney Sweepers Boy by Barbara Vine Rhubarb by Craig Silvey Grace by Robert Drewe

Joondalup Readers are reading: A Thousand Splendid Suns


 A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them.

Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment

 

For further information please speak to Mary or Jan - also see the Events Calendar.

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