Cityside readers start their book club year!

Five folk were keen to start their book club reading for 2015. It was wonderful to hear the variety of books that our members had read over the break. Mysteries, biographies, histories, chick lit were just several of the genres indulged in. Some of our book club books from last year were re-visited and discussed anew as were some of their associated films.

We have rather a hefty tome to start the year but it is just so beautifully written, I'm hopeful our members will persist. Although set during and around the Second World War, to categorise Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See as a war story would be doing it a disservice and not giving any  indication of its scope.

Carmen Callil from The Guardian had this to say about the novel while William T Vollmann from The New York Times gave the following review.

Looking forward to hearing your views at our next meeting on the first Thursday in March at Mackay City Library at 6.00 pm!

Read to live!