What's better than book club?

Well we found out at our last meeting! It's book club and home made brownies! Yum! Despite one's best intentions, their delicious aroma would waft across and another one's down the hatch! Many thanks to our new avid reader for providing such delicious treats!

SJ Watson's Before I go to Sleep certainly generated a lot of animated discussion! Maybe the brownies added to the energy? Most of us related to a degree of memory loss but trying to conceive of the persistent recurring loss experienced by our main character was difficult. A lack of memory would certainly increase one's vulnerability to predators. We spent a lot of our time reminding each of what happened or what we thought had occurred. A book like this certainly makes one grateful for what memory one has no matter how unreliable it is!

Our reading for this month returns us to Australia and the show jumping circuit in rural New South Wales in the 1930s prior to the Second World War. The novel Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears made the 2012 Shortlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Here is what Alfred Hickling from The Guardian had to say about Foal's Bread.

Phillip Adams from ABC's Radio National interviewed Gillian Mears about aspects of her life including her great passion for horses.

Our next meeting is going to be a week later than usual! This will give us a bit more time to fit reading this novel into our busy schedules! So if you haven't collected your copy yet there is still time!

We will meet at Mackay City Library at 6 pm on Thursday 14 August!

This cold weather certainly encourages curling up with a great book!  Happy reading!