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=Tuesday Bookclub=

This bookclub was started through the Community Library at Thirroul on the Illawarra region of coastal NSW in Australia.

We had our first meeting on 15 September 2009 and meet on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 5.30pm. If you live nearby and love books and reading, come along and join us! Also, check us out on the Wollongong Readers Blog

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20 Jan - Ahn do The happiest Refugee 17 Feb - Richard Flanagan - the road to the deep north 17 Mar - Salman Rushdie - the enchantress of Florence 21 Apr - tba - no copies of elizabeth Taylor's book 19 May - Margaret Atwood - the blind assassin 16 Jun - Cuckoos calling - Robert Galbraith (j k Rowling) 21 Jul - Importance of being earnest - Oscar Wilde plus movie 18 Aug - George Orwell - Animal Farm 15 Sep - This boys life - Tobias Wolff 20 Oct - All that I am -Anna funder 17 Nov - Eucalyptus- Murray bail 15 Dec - One Sunday -Joy Dettman

=Meeting & Book Schedule for 2014= 21 January - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 18 February - Bliss by Peter Carey 18 March - Night of the Seventh Dream by Lucy Lewandowski 15 April - Cloudstreet by Tim Winton 20 May - Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser 17 June - The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay 15 July - Dreaming of Zhou Gong by Traci Harding 19 August - The Undying by Mudrooroo 16 September - Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (Let's celebrate our 5th Birthday!!) 21 October - On the Trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope 18 November - The Letters of Rachel Henning 16 December - Coondaroo by Katherine Susannah Pritchard

Meeting & Book Schedule for 2013
15 January - Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse 19 February - The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe 19 March - Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky 16 April - The Hours by Michael Cunningham 21 May - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 18 June - Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres 16 July - The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling 20 August - Breath by Tim Winton 17 September - Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks 15 October - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner 19 November - Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner 17 December - Harp in the South by Ruth Park

Meeting & Book Schedule for 2012
17 January - The Life of Pi by Yann Martel 21 February - Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hern 20 March - The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell 17 April - Ice Station by Matthew Reilly 22 May - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 19 June - Eye of the Storm by Patrick White 17 July - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 21 August - The Well by Elizabeth Jolley 18 September - Carrie by Stephen King 16 October - The Power Book by Jeanette Winterson 20 November - Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist 18 December - Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Meeting & Book Schedule for 2011
18 January - Wild Lavender by Belinda Alexander 15 February - Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam 15 March - Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 19 April - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 17 May - An Imaginery Life by David Malouf 21 June - The time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 26 July (meeting a week later than usual at Bar Next to Samuels for Donella's birthday celebration) - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 16 August - The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett 20 September - Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 18 October - Persuasion by Jane Austen 15 November - The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan 20 December (meeting at Bar Next to Samuels for Christmas celebrations) - Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Meeting & Book Schedule for 2010
The Shifting Fog, Kate Morton || February 16 A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon || March 16 The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver || Barbara also wrote 'The Poisonwood Bible' ... || 15 September 2009 The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan || Most of the group enjoyed the book. We identified themes of mother/daughter relationships, family and tradition, culture, spirituality. The metaphor of the bone was sprinkled through the book, from the fractured foot of Luling's father to the fractious relationships of Ruth, Luling, Gaoling and Art. See Review. || 20 October 2009 || The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini || See Review. Some had also read A Thousand Splendid Suns by same author. Shared Books: Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin (Judy) The Murrumbidgee Kid, Barbed Wire & Roses by Peter Yeldham (Kerrie) Poem: Country Towns by Kenneth Slessor (Vicki) || 17 November 2009 My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Piccoult || Interview with Jodi Picoult about My Sister's Keeper || December 2009 A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, Marina Lewycka See Review. ||
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